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 1. Executive Summary Space (OS). Buildout would allow for a net increase of 3,884 dwelling units and 13,721 square feet of commercial uses. The Conventional Zoning area would be removed from the NHSP and redesignated to match the existing land uses. The intensity of development is not expected to change and buildout would match the existing uses with 92 dwelling units and 3,700 square feet of commercial. A detailed project description is provided in Section 3.3.2, Desaip ion of the Project, of this MR. 1.6 SUMMARY OF PROJECT ALTERNATIVES The CEQA Guidelines (Section 15126.6[a]) state that an EIR must address "a range of reasonable alternatives to the project, or to the location of the project, which could feasibly attain the basic objectives of the project, but would avoid or substantially lessen any of the significant effects of the project and evaluate the comparative merits of the alternatives." The alternatives were based, in part, on their potential ability to reduce or eliminate the impacts determined to be significant and unavoidable for the proposed project. The following two alternatives have been determined to represent a reasonable range of alternatives which have the potential to feasibly attain most of the basic objectives of the project but which may avoid or substantially lessen any of the significant effects of the project. These alternatives are analyzed in detail in Section 7, Alternatives to the Proposed Project. ■ No Project /NHSP Alternative ■ Reduced Residential Intensity Alternative Each alternative's environmental impacts are compared to the proposed project and determined to be environmentally superior, neutral, or inferior. However, only those impacts found significant and unavoidable are used in making the final determination of whether an alternative is environmentally superior or inferior to the proposed project. Impacts involving air quality were found to be significant and unavoidable. Section 7.6 identifies the Environmentally Superior Alternative. 1.6.1 No Project/NHSP Alternative The No Project /NHSP Alternative assumes that the Harbor Corridor Plan would not be adopted, the NHSP would remain in effect, the Conventional Zoning Area would remain within the NHSP, and the existing onsite buildings would remain. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.6(e)(3)(A), where a project is the revision of an existing regulatory plan the "no project" alternative assumes continuation of the existing plan, policy or operation into the future. Therefore, this alternative assumes that new development and redevelopment would continue to occur in the project area consistent with the adopted NHSP land use designations, development standards and design guidelines. Buildout of the NHSP would allow for 320 residential units and 4,867,789 square feet of nonresidential land uses. Note that the NHSP results in a reduction of residential units compared to existing uses since some residential uses were existing in the area prior to adoption of the NHSP. As compared to the proposed project, buildout of the NHSP would result in Page 16 PlaceWorkr