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HARBOR BLVD. MIXED USE TRANSIT CORRIDOR PLAN FINAL EIR
<br />CITY OF SANTA ANA
<br />5. Environmental Analysis
<br />LAND USE AND PLANNING
<br />Table 5.8 -3 SCAG Compass Growth Vision Consistency Analysis
<br />Promote Sustainability for Future Generations
<br />GV P4.1: Preserve rural, agricultural, recreational,
<br />Revised Plan of Development
<br />Compass Blueprint Principles
<br />Compliance with Principle
<br />Additionally, a variety of transportation modes currently exist and would be made
<br />available to future residents and workers that would be generated by the proposed
<br />project, including bicycle and bus routes, thereby offering access to the proposed land
<br />GV P4.2: Focus development in urban centers
<br />uses to a broad range of income levels.
<br />and existing cities.
<br />Furthermore, implementation of the Harbor Corridor Plan would to not only improve
<br />GV P4.3: Develop strategies to accommodate
<br />the prosperity of the existing uses along the corridor, but would also improve the
<br />growth that uses resources efficiently, eliminate
<br />prosperity and quality of life of the existing surrounding residential communities by
<br />pollution and significantly reduce waste.
<br />facilitating and encouraging balanced growth and minimizing adverse environmental
<br />impacts through the use of buffers and transition zones to prevent the placement of
<br />incompatible uses.
<br />GV P3.4: Support local and state fiscal policies
<br />Consistent: The Harbor Corridor Plan facilitates and encourages balanced growth
<br />that encourage balanced growth.
<br />throughout the corridor through the development of a unique mix of uses that would
<br />provide for residential, retail, entertainment, restaurant, and other support uses. The
<br />Harbor Corridor Plan would also follow applicable local and state policies that guide
<br />GV P4.4: Utilize "green" development techniques
<br />the responsible growth of the corridor.
<br />GV P3.5: Encourage civic engagement
<br />Consistent: As part of the project process, residents and business owners are
<br />actively encouraged to participate through notices, meetings, and workshops.
<br />Additionally, the CEOA process and the City's development review process, by their
<br />very nature, foster civic involvement and public participation. Furthermore, the
<br />proposed project promotes social and civic engagement through inclusion of a mix of
<br />uses (e.g., retail, restaurant, entertainment, and other pedestrian -oriented uses at
<br />street level), which would foster community interaction.
<br />Promote Sustainability for Future Generations
<br />GV P4.1: Preserve rural, agricultural, recreational,
<br />Consistent: There are no rural, agricultural, or environmentally sensitive areas within
<br />and environmentally sensitive areas.
<br />the project area. However, the project area contains the Willowick Golf Course (an
<br />operating 18 -hole public golf course), Cesar Chavez /Campesino Park, and Santa
<br />Anita Park. Under the proposed project, the golf course and packs would be zoned as
<br />Open Space and would therefore remain.
<br />GV P4.2: Focus development in urban centers
<br />Consistent: Implementation of the Harbor Corridor Plan would accommodate the
<br />and existing cities.
<br />development of a mix of land uses in a highly urbanized area of the City.
<br />GV P4.3: Develop strategies to accommodate
<br />Consistent: The CEOA process ensures that plans at all levels of government
<br />growth that uses resources efficiently, eliminate
<br />consider all environmental impacts. Sections 5.2, Air Quality, 5.5, Greenhouse Gas
<br />pollution and significantly reduce waste.
<br />Emissions, and 5.15, Utilities and Service Systems, appropriately address and
<br />mitigate (where necessary) the potential environmental impacts related to resource
<br />efficiency, pollution, and solid waste. Additionally, as outlined in these EIR sections,
<br />implementation of the proposed project would adhere to local, state, and federal
<br />environmental and climate change policies to comply with strategies to eliminate
<br />pollution and reduce waste. See also response to RTP /SCS Goal G6 in Table 5.8-2,
<br />above.
<br />GV P4.4: Utilize "green" development techniques
<br />Consistent: See response to RTP /SCS Goal G6 in Table 5.8 -2, above. Refer also to
<br />Section 5.5, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, which includes a detailed energy analysis.
<br />Soumz: SCAG Compass Bluepnnt
<br />5.8.4 Cumulative Impacts
<br />Development of the proposed project, in conjunction with other cumulative development in accordance with
<br />the City's general plan (see Section 4.4, AssvV ions Regarding Cumuaatvm Impacts, in Chapter 4), could cause
<br />citywide land use and planning impacts. However, upon adoption of the Harbor Corridor Plan, the proposed
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