2014-069 - Final Environmental Impact Report No. 2014-01

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HARBOR BLVD. MIXED USE TRANSIT CORRIDOR PLAN FINAL FIR CITY OF SANTA ANA 5. Environmental Analysis LAND USE AND PLANNING LU -1 Physically divide an established community. LU -2 Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with jurisdiction over the project (including, but not limited to the general plan, specific plan, local coastal Program, or zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect. LU -3 Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community conservation plan. The Initial Study, included as Appendix A, substantiates that impacts associated with the following thresholds would be less than significant: LU -1 and LU -3. 5.8.3 Environmental Impacts The following impact analysis addresses thresholds of significance for which the Initial Study disclosed potentially significant impacts. The applicable thresholds are identified in brackets after the impact statement. Impact 5.8 -1: Implementation of the Harbor Corridor Mixed Use Transit Corridor Plan would not conflict with applicable plans adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating and environmental effect. [Threshold LU -21 Impact Analysis: The Harbor Boulevard Mixed Use Transit Corridor Plan would replace the existing 425 - acre NHSP. The plan would change the NHSP so that the project would consist of two separate areas: 1) 305 acres within the boundaries of the existing NHSP generally along Harbor Boulevard (or "Harbor Corridor Plan", and 2) 120 acres within the existing NHSP in the Willowick Golf Course area (or "Conventional Zoning Area". The Harbor Corridor Plan introduces land use and circulation changes to approximately 302 acres of the NHSP, which includes 252 acres of parcelled lots and approximately 50 acres of right- of-way outside of parcels. Land use changes under the Harbor Corridor Plan would replace the NHSP's zoning districts with four Harbor Corridor Plan zones: Transit Node, Corridor, Neighborhood Transitional, and Open Space (described in detail in Chapter 3, Project Desaip ion). Each zone would include its own development standards, preferred building and frontage types, landscape palette, and strategies promoting integration between new development and the existing neighborhood. Table 3 -1, Zoning and Buildout Projections far the Proposed Harbor Corridor Plan, outlines the proposed zoning designations and summarizes buildout projections of the Harbor Corridor Plan. Proposed zoning is also shown in Figure 34, Proposed Land Use Districts and Zoning Designations. Adoption of the Harbor Corridor Plan would allow for the development of up to 4,623 residential units and 1,967,982 square feet of commercial space within the plan. Buildout of the plan would generate 3,884 additional dwelling units, 15,327 new residents, 13,721 additional square feet of commercial space, and approximately 173 additional employees in the plan area over existing uses. Page 5.84 PlaceWorkr