2013-050 - Addendum to the Final Environment Imapct Report No. 2006-01

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This Traffic Analysis is prepared in order to evaluate the operational and design characteristics of the proposed First Street Apartments project at 1901 East lot Street in the City of Santa Ana and to evaluate the project's potential impacts at the project access locations. The project is situated on an approximately 5 acre site located at the northeast corner of Cabrillo Park Drive and East 18t Street in the City�s Metro East Mixed Use Overlay Zone, see Figure 1. The site is developed with a 3 -story commercial building and a 4 -story parking garage. The project includes the demolition of the existing 3 -story commercial building and construction of 254 residential apartment units and 2,424 square feet of support service retail, see Figure 2. The project site was previously approved for development of the First and Cabrillo Towers project consisting of 374 residential dwelling units and 8,957 square feet of specialty retail. The proposed project will be developing fewer units thereby generating fewer peak hour trips. Therefore per the scope of work only the project access driveways are analyzed in this report. A copy of the Scope of Work is provided in the Appendix for reference. The findings of the traffic analysis with the proposed project did not indicate any significant project impacts at the project access locations, The proposed project will utilize two existing driveways and will be stop sign controlled. There will be two project entries to the existing parking garage and both are gated. The findings of the gate stacking analysis shows that there is adequate storage capacity at the two (2) gated entries to accommodate the expected residential and visitor stacking needs without backing onto the adjacent public and/or private street. It should be noted that the gates will be open during the day and closed at night. INTRODUCTION This report summarizes the results of a Traffic Analysis conducted for the proposed development of 254 residential apartment units and 2,424 square feet of support service retail at 1901 East lot Street in the City of Santa Ana, see Figure 1. The project site is approximately 5 acres and has an existing 3 -story commercial building and existing 4 -story parking garage. The site is located at the northeast corner of Cabrillo Park Drive and East lot Street in the City's Metro East Mixed Use Overlay Zone. The site is bounded by Kaiser Permanente to the north, existing church and office building to the east, East 15t Street to the south, and Cabrillo Park Drive to the west. The existing lane configuration at the project driveways is shown in Figure 3. The site is accessed by an existing driveway on Cabrillo Park Drive approximately 530' north of East lot Street that connects to an east -west drive aisle along the northern property line. There is an existing driveway on East 151 Street approximately 270' east of Cabrillo Park Drive that connects to a north -south drive aisle in the middle of the site. There is another existing driveway on East let Street approximately 475' east of Cabrillo Park Drive that connects to a north -south drive aisle along the eastern property line. To accommodate the proposed project the existing 3 -story commercial building, the driveway on East lot Street approximately 270 feet east of Cabrillo Park Drive, and the