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City of Santa Ana Environmental Checklist <br />Less-than- <br />Significant <br />Potentially Impact with Less-than- <br />Significant Mitigation Significant No <br />X. Land Use and Planning Impact Incorporated Impact Impact <br />Would the project: <br />a. Physically divide an established community? ? ? ? <br />h. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, ? ? ® ? <br />policy, or regulation of an agency with <br />jurisdiction over the project (including, but <br />not limited to, a general plan, specific plan, <br />local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) <br />adopted for the purpose of avoiding or <br />mitigating an environmental effect? <br />c. Conflict with any applicable habitat ? ? ? <br />conservation plan or natural community <br />conservation plan? <br />Discussion <br />Would the project: <br />a. Physically divide an established community? <br />No Impact. The proposed project involves redevelopment of the site for similar religious uses. The <br />1.46-acre project site is currently developed with two residential structures that are currently used <br />for religious purposes. The project would demolish the existing structures and develop a new <br />meditation center. The project site is within a developed urban area bounded by other religious <br />uses, residential uses, and a roadway. Thus, the project would not physically divide a community. In <br />addition, the proposed religious is consistent with general plan land uses with approval of a CUP. <br />Therefore, the project would not physically divide an established community, and impacts would <br />not occur. <br />b. Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with jurisdiction <br />over the project (including, but not limited to, a general plan, specific plan, local coastal <br />program, or• zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an <br />environmental effect? <br />Less-than-Significant Impact. The proposed project would be subject to the City's General Plan and <br />Municipal Code (e.g., Zoning Ordinance) and compliance with the provisions contained within these <br />documents would be required in order to approve the proposed project. The project site has a Low <br />Density Residential (LR-7) General Plan land use designation and a Residential (111) zoning <br />designation. <br />The LR-7 General Plan land use designation allows for a variety of uses, including one single-family <br />residential dwelling unit with up to six bedrooms, private greenhouses and horticulture collections, <br />a temporary real estate office (less than one year), accessory buildings and structures, child care <br />facilities, and adult day care facilities. Land uses with the LR-7 General Plan designation are <br />implemented with the R1 zoning standards, which allow for the development of a church and <br />accessory church buildings with the approval of a CUP. Therefore, the proposed Bat Nita Meditation <br />Center land use is consistent with the City's General Plan land use and zoning designations. <br />The Bat Nha Buddhist Meditation Center 3-59 line 2013 <br />Initial Study/Mitlgated Negative Declaration ICF 00215.17 <br />31 C-112