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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Section 3.0 relocation costs, including the replacement of business stationary or telephone connection fees, and moving costs. hi addition, business specific impacts such as those pertaining to the loss of fixed equipment shall be evaluated and compensated on a case by case basis. LP -4 The City of Santa Ana has several programs available to assist small businesses. All City or City -assisted programs offering such financial assistance shall be offered to qualifying businesses displaced by the project. LP -5 Consistent with the requirements of eminent domain law and the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, the City of Santa Ana shall assist displaced residents in finding alternative locations, either within or outside the City limits, as appropriate. Displaced residents are also eligible for the reimbursement of certain relocation costs, including moving costs. 3.2.6 LEVEL OF SIGNIFICANCE AFTER MITIGATION RELATED TO LAND USE AND PLANNING Alternative 1 will result in an inconsistency in the City's Bikeway Master Plan. The implementation of mitigation measure LP -1, if Alternative 1 is selected, will mitigate this impact to below of level of significance. Alternatives 1 and 2 will result in significant adverse impacts related to property acquisition. These impacts can be mitigated to below a level of significance based on measures LP -2, LP -3, LP -4 and LP -5. As discussed later in Sections 3.3 (Population and Housing) and 6.2.4 (Cumulative Impacts Related to Population and Housing), the loss of housing associated with the acquisition of right-of-way for the proposed project may contribute to a cumulative significant adverse impact on housing in the City of Santa Ana. This contribution to a significant cumulative adverse impact by the proposed Grand Avenue widening cannot be mitigated to below a level of significance. Alternatives 1 and 2 will result in the disruption of an established community due to the permanent changes associated with the removal of existing residential uses which previously buffered interior residential properties from Grand Avenue. Although the impact to the community character is not quantifiable, the effect of the disruption due to the removal of existing structures is considered a significant adverse impact on the existing community in proximity of the project limits along Grand Avenue which cannot be mitigated to below a level of significance. Alternatives I and 2 will not result in adverse impacts related to reuse of remnant parcels, General Plan consistency (other than the Bikeway Master Plan for Alternative 1 as described above) and SCAG land use policies. F.•IPROJ-ENMGrand eirWew Text- GrandlSection 3 SplitlSection 3.2.doc Page 3.2-27