31B - CUP - 1901 NORTH FAIRVIEW ST

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Chapter 2 Project Description Project Overview Orangewood Children's Foundation is proposing to construct and operate a new charter high school on the former Santa Ana Hospital Medical Center site in the City of Santa Ana. The project will consist of two new education buildings, one administrative /library building, and a gymnasium to accommodate 450 students. Ancillary to the school, the applicant is also proposing three residential buildings and one administrative /support building to accommodate 80 students that would reside onsite. The proposed project requires a CUP to allow a school, a variance to deviate from building and garden wall height limit requirements, a lot merger, and a variance to reduce the amount of required parking spaces. Project Location The project site consists of two parcels totaling 7.2 acres located at 1901 and 1919 North Fairview Street, which is south of State Route 22 (SR -22) near the southeast corner of North Fairview and Edna Drive in the northwestern portion of the City of Santa Ana (Figures 2 -1 and 2 -2). Regional access to the project site is generally provided by the Fairview Street exit from SR -22, Garden Grove Boulevard, and 17th Street, which is a major arterial in Santa Ana. Existing Setting Existing Site Conditions and Surrounding Land Uses The project site is currently vacant and undeveloped. Large areas of the site are covered with cement, asphalt, concrete building slabs, and a large pile of rubble that are remnants of the previous hospital and medical office buildings that were demolished in 2011. In addition, the site contains scattered trees, grass, other ornamental landscaping, and parking lot lighting from the previous development. The site is bound on three sides by a block wail that varies in height, but averages 6 feet high. Figure 2 -3 shows the existing condition of the project site. The project site is located within an urban and fully developed area that is surrounded by single - family and condominium residential uses, and a medical rehabilitation center (Figure 2 -2). Land uses in the project vicinity include a combination of commercial, office, religious, and single - family residential uses. Edna Park and the Santa Ana River lie approximately 0.1 mile to the east of the site, separated by single - family residential uses. Adjacent land uses include: • A convalescent hospital (St. Edna Subacute & Rehabilitation Center) and Edna Drive are located to the north. • North Fairview Street to the west, with a church, single - family residential and auto - related commercial uses across Fairview Street The Academy Charter High School June 2012 Initial Study /Mitigated Negative Declaration 2 -1 ICF 00914.11 31 B -54