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SANTA ANA CLIMATE ACTION PLAN INITIAL STUDY <br />CITY OF SANTA ANA <br />residing or working in the project area. Discretionary development projects associated with the Draft CAP <br />would undergo project -level CEQA review. Therefore, impacts related to private airstrips would be less than <br />significant. <br />g) Impair implementation of or physically interfere with an adopted emergency response plan or <br />emergency evacuation plan? <br />Less than Significant Impact. The City of Santa Ana adopted a Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan that <br />provides City officials and residents with information regarding emergency situations.35 In situations where an <br />emergency evacuation is necessary, the use of roads and freeways within the City would be necessary. The <br />Draft CAP is a policy -based document, and the recommendations and measures in the Draft CAP would not <br />interfere with an adopted emergency response plan or emergency evacuation plan Therefore, this impact <br />would be less than significant. <br />h) Expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss, injury, or death involving wildland fires, <br />including where wildlands are adjacent to urbanized areas or where residences are intermixed <br />with wildlands? <br />No Impact. There are no wAdland fire areas within the City of Santa Ana.36 Implementation of the proposed <br />Draft CAP measures would not expose people or structures to any wildland fire hazards and no impact would <br />occur. <br />3.9 HYDROLOGY AND WATER QUALITY <br />a) Violate any water quality standards or waste discharge requirements? <br />Less than Significant Impact. The Draft CAP proposes measures that would not directly violate water <br />quality standards or waste discharge requirements. However, implementation of the Draft CAP could result <br />in construction - related wastewater discharge into the local sewer system. Although increases in wastewater are <br />not expected to be large enough to substantially increase the amount of runoff or amount of pollutants in the <br />runoff, if necessary, implementation of the Draft CAP would be required to comply with NPDES to control <br />stormwater discharges. The Draft CAP includes measures to sell and distribute rainwater harvesting barrels to <br />residents, which would minimize the amount of water flowing into storm drains, sewer systems, and local <br />waterways. Nonetheless, when appropriate, any project associated with the Draft CAP would be subject to a <br />Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan and /or be required to incorporate Best Management Practices during <br />construction to reduce potential impacts. Therefore, impacts to water quality would be less than significant. <br />b) Substantially deplete groundwater supplies or interfere substantially with groundwater recharge <br />such that there would be a net deficit in aquifer volume or a lowering of the local groundwater <br />35 City of Santa Ana. Natural HaZardr Mitigation Plan — Executive Summary. Available online at: <br />ham, / /hazgrdmitiga6oii ealem2 ca gov /dots /thmpZ Santa Ana. City of LHAlP pdf, accessed August 31, 2015. <br />36 California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection- Fire Hazard Severity Zones in SRA. Adopted November 7, <br />2007. Available online at: htto• / /frap fire -a govzwel)d•tti /maps /ortiage /fhszs map 30 pdf, accessed September 1, <br />2015. <br />Page 36 October 2015 <br />75B -134 <br />