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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist utilities depends on the service area and capacity of each utility provider and the amount of increased demand for utility services from the proposed project, as well as related projects; and if this combined demand could reduce the availability of utility services. The service areas of the OCSD (wastewater), Santa Ana Public Works Agency (stormwater), Santa Ana Public Works Agency Water Resources Division and Metropolitan (water supply), and OCIWMD (solid waste) encompass the project site and surrounding area. Many of the projects identified in Table 3 -32 involve new or expanded land uses that may result in additional demand on utilities and service systems. These projects would likely require additional utility capacity. The construction of more capacity in various utility lines would be carried out as part of the individual projects or part of the City's infrastructure improvement plans. As discussed in Section XVII, "Utilities and Service Systems," all utility service providers project to have adequate capacity to meet demands resulting from present and reasonably foreseeable future projects. The proposed project would result in less- than - significant cumulative impacts on utilities and service systems. The proposed project would not require expansion or construction of new stormwater drainage facilities. Implementation of the proposed project will include project design features identified in Response IX(a) that will minimize runoff off site flows to existing stormwater facilities. The proposed project would not result in increased water demands requiring new or expanded entitlements of water supply. The proposed project is anticipated to utilize 43.4% less water than what was used daily by the previous medical uses on the site. Likewise, the anticipated peak flow, which is the amount of water that would need to be transmitted at one time through the infrastructure and to the project site, would also be 43.4% less than what was delivered at peak flow under the previous land uses. Because the project would utilize less water daily and annually than the previous site use, impacts to the water utility would not occur and would not result in cumulative impacts. As discussed in Section XVII, "Utilities and Service Systems," the proposed project is expected to be served from an upgraded sewer system that has been previously planned as part of the City's Sewer Master Plan, and is required per Mitigation Measure UTL -1, prior serving the project. Because project flows would be served by the improved sewer system and flows from the site will not be substantial in comparison to the treatment plant design capacity, the proposed project would not result in cumulative impacts to sewer or wastewater treatment facilities. In summary, the project's incremental contribution to the service demands of the utilities serving the project area is less than significant. Further, the project's contribution to utility service needs is not cumulative considerable and the proposed project would not result in significant cumulative utilities and service systems impacts. Transportation and Traffic The cumulative setting for transportation and traffic impacts includes all of the projects listed on Table 3 -32. The traffic generated from the cumulative projects is provided in Table 3 -34. The traffic cumulative analysis was prepared as part of the TIA (Appendix C), and includes the five intersections analyzed for the proposed project that occur within the project vicinity. The traffic implications of past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects include two near -term scenarios for the years 2013 and 2019 for Phase I and Phase 11, respectively, and a long -term scenario for the year 2035. Thresholds for impacts are determined in the same method as the The Academy Charter Nigh School 3 317 June 2012 Initial Study /Mitigated Negative Declaration ICE 0092012 •T0J