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 PUBLIC SERVICES The Santa Ana Public Library system provides extensive resources to Santa Ana residents. It has more than 240,000 Books; 10,000 audio recordings; 12,000 videos; 300 magazine subscriptions and 8 newspapers, including microfilm copies of the Orange County Register going back to 1906; over 1300 e- books. (SAPL, 2014). The SAPL also has computers for adults, children and youth and tutoring at the Newhope Library Learning Center. The SAPL also includes an online library (17 online databases) with which cardholders can access information online in eBooks, newspapers, magazines, and reference works. In addition, the City of Santa Ana has a Santa Ana History Room that provides Santa Ana residents with information about the history of the city, county, and state in which they live. The Santa Ana Public Library includes a Bookmobile at Friendship Park which is located east of the project area between Fairview Street and Raitt Street. The Bookmobile provides books, CDs, book and tape sets, videos, and DVDs to the residents in Santa Ana. The Main Library has 39,790 sf of floor area, and the branch library has 8,987 sf. The combined resources of these libraries and bookmobiles include over 720,000 books and other resources, plus some 150,000 resources for in -house use, which serves the City population of 329,915. Regulatory Setting The Public Facilities Element of the General Plan is designed to provide sufficient public, cultural, recreational, educational, social service and related facilities to meet the community's needs. It is also to promote active and sustained involvement by the public in the pursuit of excellence in the City's public facilities and programs. The following policies are directly applicable to the public facilities resources for the Harbor Corridor Plan: Objective 1.1 Provide adequate public facilities which are economical, convenience, and which reinforce community identity. Objective 1.2 Create an on going public- private partnership in cultural, educational, recreational and social service facilities and programs. 5.11.4.2 THRESHOLDS OF SIGNIFICANCE According to Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines, a project would normally have a significant effect on the environment if the project would: LS -1 Result in a substantial adverse physical impact associated with the provisions of new or physically altered governmental facilities, need for new or physically altered governmental facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental impacts, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios, response times or other performance objectives for library services. October 2014 Page 5.11 -11