75C - PH - FIRST AND PACIFIC PROJECT

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GPA No. 2016 -02, AA No. 2016 -02 & TTM No. 2016 -02 April 11, 2016 Page 8 Public Notification On February 25, 2015, the applicant held a community meeting in accordance with the provisions of the City's Sunshine Ordinance at the Vietnamese Community Center of Orange County. Several members of the community attended, with issues such as parking, open space, qualifications of the developer, and alternate uses discussed. Planning Division staff also attended the meeting. The applicant provided a draft notice, affidavit, copy of publication, and meeting notes to Planning Division staff in the days following the meeting. The project site is located within the boundaries of the Central City Neighborhood Association and adjacent to the Artesia Pilar and Pico - Lowell Associations. Staff has notified all parties that have expressed an interest in the project by mail a minimum of 10 days prior to the public hearing to ensure they were notified of the meeting and to identify if there were any areas of concern. The project site itself was posted with a notice advertising this public hearing, a notice was published in the Orange County Reporter and mailed notices were sent to all property owners and occupants within 500 feet of the project site. At the time of this printing, no correspondence, either written or electronic, had been received from any members of the public. CEQA Analysis As part of the City's permitting process, the proposed project is required to undergo an environmental review in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). In accordance with CEQA, the recommended actions have been reviewed through an Initial Study /Mitigated Negative Declaration (ER No. 2015 -09). Sections 15070 through 15075 of the State CEQA Guidelines (Article 6) guide the process for the preparation of a negative declaration (ND) or mitigated negative declaration (MND). The MND prepared for the project, as required by CEQA, contains a project description, project location map, proposed finding that the project with mitigation will not have a significant effect on the environment, a copy of the initial study, and mitigation measures to avoid potentially significant effects (Exhibit 12). The mitigation measures included in the MND are designed to reduce or eliminate the potentially significant environmental impacts. The scope of the MND evaluates the proposed project's effects on the following resource topics: aesthetics, agricultural resources, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, land use, mineral resources, noise, population and housing, public services, recreation, transportation and traffic, and utilities and service systems. The City prepared a draft MND and circulated it to all interested or required parties on the City's standard distribution list on March 10, 2016. A notice of intent to adopt was also published in the Orange County Reporter on March 11, 2016. The City circulated the draft MND for a 20 -day public review between March 14, 2016 and April 3, 2016. The draft MND was available for public review at the Santa Ana City Hall, the City of Santa Ana Main Library, and on the City's webpage created for the project. 75C -12