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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Executive Summary EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ES.1 PURPOSE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT The City of Santa Ana is proposing to widen the segment of Grand Avenue between Seventeenth Street on the north and First Street on the south, to the General Plan Circulation Element designation of Major Arterial. This Focused Environmental Impact Report (EIR) documents the analysis conducted by the City to assess the potential for the widening alternatives to result in significant adverse environmental impacts. The City of Santa Ana is the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) for this EIR for the Grand Avenue widening project. ES.2 DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT The location of the project segment of Grand Avenue is shown later on Figure 1-1. The City of Santa Ana developed two build alternatives for the project segment of Grand Avenue. Alternatives 1 and 2, which assume cross sections of 100 and 120 feet on the project segment of Grand Avenue, respectively, are shown later on Figures 1-2 and 1-3. Typical cross sections on Grand Avenue under these alternatives are also shown on Figures 1-2 and 1-3. The City also identified a no build or No Project Alternative. Alternatives 1 and 2 and the No Project Alternative are evaluated in this Focused EIR. ES.3 SUMMARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS Section 3.0 (Existing Conditions, Impacts and Mitigation Measures) of this EIR documents the technical analysis of the potential impacts of the proposed project related to land use and planning, population and housing, air quality, transportation, noise and cultural resources. Section 4.0 (Unavoidable Adverse Impacts) summarizes the potentially significant adverse impacts of the proposed Grand Avenue widening which cannot be avoided or mitigated to below a level of significance. Section 6.0 (Growth Inducing and Cumulative Impacts of the Proposed Project) describes the potential for the proposed. project to result in growth inducing and cumulative impacts. In summary, the potential for the proposed Grand Avenue widening to result in adverse impacts related to these environmental parameters is described below and is summarized in Table ES -1. Land Use and Planning: As summarized in Table ES -2 and described later in Section 3.2 (Land Use and Planning), the proposed Grand Avenue widening will require the acquisition of property to accommodate the widened road section under Alternatives 1 and 2. Mitigation measures LP -2 to LP -5, provided later in Section 3.2.5 (Mitigation Related to Land Use), will substantially mitigate these impacts under Alternatives I and 2, to below a level of significance. There will be a significant impact on an established community due to community disruption caused by the removal of existing structures under Alternatives 1 and 2. Also Alternative 1 is inconsistent with the City's Bikeway Master Plan and Policy 3.3 of the Circulation Element. Mitigation measure LP -1, which applies only to Alternative 1, would mitigate this inconsistency to below a level of significance. F: IPROJ-ENMGrand eirlNew Text - GrandlExecutive Summary-new.doc Page ES -I