Mayor City of Santa ANA Miguel A. Pulido*

There is inadequate coordination between local land-use planning agencies and local water supply agencies, resulting in a process that fails to fully engage issues. Disagree. The City of Santa Ana provides for a high level of coordination between its land-use planning function and its water supply agency through an internal development review process. Because the City of Santa Ana provides its own water utility, the employees representing the Water Division of the Public Works Department play an integral part in the City's Development Review Committee. The Water Division reviews and provides input on every development project proposed in the City of Santa Ana. (a). Water agencies have tended to avoid interfering with or participating in growth-management decisions. Disagree. The City of Santa Ana's General Plan, which provides a policy framework for growth-management in Santa Ana, provides the baseline data on which the City's Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP) relies for its projections of existing TELEPHONE (714) 647-6900 SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA 92702 20 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA • P.O. BOX 1988 FAX (714) 647-6954 £ A The Honorable Judge Dunning September 15, 2009 supply and future demand. The two planning documents are inextricably linked and provide crucial data that is used in the analysis of development projects. Through the California Environmental Quality Act (CREQA) review process project impacts related to public utilities, such as water provision, are analyzed, any impacts are identified and mandatory mitigation measures are implemented. These implementation measures can be quite costly which some might interpret as "interfering" with a project, though the City would characterize it as simply protecting the public interest. In addition, the City requires that developments that have the potential to impact the water supply system pay a fair-share assessment of any needed improvements further ensuring that project impacts are accounted for in the project analysis. (b). Cities and the County have tended to not critically evaluate the limitations of the water agencies' supply projections. Disagree. The City of Santa Ana's Urban Water Management Plan, the document that provides the City's water projections, incorporates growth projection data from the City of Santa Ana General Plan, as well as supply projections from the Orange County Water District (OCWD) and the Metropolitan Water District (MWD). Each of these participating agencies provides a level of check-and-balance ensuring that an adequate review is provided. In addition, the CEQA review process for individual development projects includes an opportunity for comprehensive project review and comment by other government agencies, such as the State Water Resources Control Board and the Department of Fish and Game, to further ensure multiple oversight and analysis. The review and comments provided by these agencies can, in fact, create the need for significant modifications to development projects and the adoption of stringent mitigation measures in order to address potential impacts to water quality and provision.