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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Section 6.0 The cumulative impacts analysis requires consideration of other projects in an area, in conjunction with the proposed project, to assess the potential for significant adverse cumulative impacts. For this Focused EIR, the potential environmental effects of the proposed Grand Avenue widening were considered in conjunction with the potential environmental effects of buildout of the City of Santa Ana General Plan Land Use and Circulation Elements. The City of Santa Ana completed EIRs for proposed modifications to the Land Use and Circulation Elements in 1998. The EIRs for the proposed Land Use and Circulation Elements were used as the basis for determining the potential for cumulative significant adverse impacts in the City. These potential cumulative impacts were then considered with the impacts associated with the proposed Grand Avenue widening, to assess whether this widening project would contribute to cumulatively significant adverse environmental impacts. These EIRs for the Land Use and Circulation Elements are: Revised Final Environmental Impact Report No. 97-01 (EIR 97-01) Final Land Use Element State Clearinghouse (V) No. 97071058 (Parsons Brinkerhoff, January 21, 1998). Final Environmental Impact Report No. 97-02 (EIR 97-02) Final Circulation Element (V) No. 97071055 (Parsons Brinkerhoff, January 5, 1998). These EIRs are on file at the City and are available for review during regular business hours. The potential impacts of the proposed Grand Avenue widening are based on the impact analysis provided earlier in Section 3.0 (Existing Conditions, Impacts and Mitigation Measures) and in the Initial Study (IS) included in Appendix A of this EIR. This evaluation of potential cumulative impacts describes the potential impacts associated with the Circulation and Land Use Elements and the proposed Grand Avenue widening, for each environmental parameter. 6.2.3 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS RELATED TO LAND USE AND PLANNING Construction of the transportation improvements in the Circulation Element could result in changes in land uses and the full or partial take of property adjacent to the projects, as needed. However, the property takes are anticipated to be minor acquisitions and can be mitigated to below a level of significance. Much of the City of Santa Ana is developed and there is very little undeveloped land remaining in the City. Buildout based on the Land Use Element is not anticipated to result in adverse impacts related to zoning conflicts, inconsistencies with regional plans or land use conflicts because all new development is subject to the City's plan review process. As described earlier in Section 3.2 (Land Use and Planning), the proposed Grand Avenue widening will result in a significant adverse impact to an established community due to the exposure of homes to Grand Avenue that were previously shielded by an existing intervening structure. The acquisition of property for this widening will be consistent with City policy and State law regarding compensation for the acquisition of private property for public use. Therefore, the proposed Grand P: IPROJ-ENVIGrand eirlNew Text- GrandlSection 6.0-new.doc Page 6-4