2014-028 - Approving General Plan Amendement No. 2014-01

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City of Santa Ana -Park View at Town and Country Manor Draft EIR Executive protection and emergency response. This reduced intensity alternative was, therefore, eliminated from further consideration. No alternative uses for the project site contained with the larger Town and Country Manor campus have been suggested during preparation of the Draft FIR as integrating well with existing uses, and therefore have not been evaluated. No alternative locations were considered for the proposed project because no suitable alternative locations could be determined. Additionally, no other sites within the City of Santa Ana are under the ownership and control of the Applicant. For these reasons, analyzing alternative uses and locations was considered not feasible. 2.5.3 - Environmentally Superior Alternative CEQA Guidelines § 15126(e)(2) requires an FIR to identify an "environmentally superior alternative." Impacts for all issue areas analyzed in the Draft FIR for the proposed project can be mitigated and are considered less than significant. The initial areas of concern associated with the proposed project, aesthetics- shade /shadow, air quality - construction, and traffic, were determined through the EIR analysis to be either less than significant before mitigation, or able to be mitigated to a less than significant level. No substantial adverse impacts will, therefore, occur with adherence to regulatory requirements and project mitigation measures. The proposed project is considered the environmentally superior alternative. 2.6 - Issues to be Resolved /Areas of Controversy Section 15123(b)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines requires that an FIR contain issues to be resolved, which includes the choice among alternatives and whether or how to mitigate significant impacts. The major issues to be resolved within the proposed project include decisions by the Lead Agency as to whether: • The Draft EIR adequately describes the environmental impacts of the proposed project; • The recommended mitigation measures should be adopted or modified; and /or • Additional mitigation measures need to be applied to the proposed project. Table 2 -1, Summary of Environmental Impacts and Mitigation Measures for the Park View at Town and Country Manor project, summarizes the detailed discussion contained in Section 4 of this Draft FIR, Environmental Impact Analysis, of project impacts and mitigation measures. Table 2 -1 lists the environmental issues, and indicates that no issues would remain significant after mitigation. Because no issues remain significant after mitigation, no issues to be resolved and /or areas of controversy remain. Michael Brandman Associates 2 -5 H\Cl t(PN- JN)b327b32]003MMVB2]0030 Sec02-0 Executive S...dac