2015-051 - Certifying Final Environmental Impact Report

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• 110 South Alternative • 120 South Alternative • Revised Construction Alternative The alternatives analyzed in the EIR were determined to represent a reasonable range of alternatives with the potential to feasibly attain most of the basic objectives of the project but avoid or substantially lessen any of the significant effects of the project. A. No Project Alternative Section 15126.6(e) of the CEQA Guidelines requires the analysis of a No Project Alternative. This No Project analysis must discuss the existing condition, as well as what would be reasonably expected to occur in the foreseeable future if the project were not to be approved. In this alternative Warner Avenue from Main Street to Grand Avenue is not widened, and the existing roadway configuration and intersection traffic controls remain as is. The new bicycle lanes and improved sidewalks included in the proposed project would not be constructed. No properties would be acquired, and no buildings demolished for roadway widening. Drainage improvements included in the proposed project would not be installed. Facts in Support of Finding: This alternative would meet one project objective, Objective 6 — minimizing property acquisition including public facilities — but would not meet any of the other project objectives. • This alternative would increase impacts on geology and soils, hydrology and water quality, transportation and traffic, and utilities and service systems. • This alternative would avoid one significant and unavoidable impact, (construction noise), but would increase the significant and unavoidable impact related to construction- phase traffic. Finding: The City of Santa Ana finds, based on the Final EIR and the whole of the record, that the No Project Alternative is less desirable than the proposed project. Specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations, including considerations for the provision of employment opportunities for highly trained workers, make this alternative less than desirable than the proposed project. Public Resources Code § 21081 [a][3], Guidelines § 15091 [a][3]). B. 110 South Alternative This alternative would use a 110 -foot total ROW width, a modified Major Arterial ROW, and would align the road widening mostly on the south of the existing centerline. The ROW includes six 11 -foot lanes, a 14- foot -wide raised landscaped median, 5 -foot shoulder/bike lanes, and 10- foot parkway and sidewalk. This alternative would require 25 full and 31 partial parcel acquisitions. Compared to the proposed project, the major differences with this alignment are the acquisition and building removal of three additional commercial parcels (at the strip commercial center) and one industrial parcel (Cherry Aerospace). Partial impacts to industrial parcels on the north side of Warner Avenue would be reduced. The majority of impacts to full residential parcels would be shifted from the north to the south side of Warner Avenue and result in the reduction of 10 full CEQA Findings of Fact - 14 - Warner Avenue Improvements & Widening from Main Street to Grand Avenue Aug 2015