2019-107 - Proposed Addington Multi-Family Residential Project

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Consistent with CEQA's requirements, the FIR for the Project includes an analysis of cumulative impacts. As discussed throughout Chapter 4.0, Environmental Setting and Impact Analysis, of the DEIR, the DEIR's cumulative evaluation focuses on whether the impacts of the Project are cumulatively considerable within the context of impacts caused by other past, present, and reasonably foreseeable future projects. As described, different types of cumulative impacts occur for different environmental resources that affect different geographic areas. The geographic scope of the cumulative air quality analysis, where cumulative impacts occur over a large area, is different from the geographic scope considered for cumulative analysis of aesthetic resources, for which cumulative impacts are limited to specific viewsheds. Thus, in assessing aesthetic resources impacts, only development within and immediately adjacent to the Project area that would contribute to a cumulative visual effect is analyzed, whereas cumulative traffic impacts are based upon all development within the traffic study area of roadways and intersections. Therefore, the DEIR describes the cumulative geographic scope, and the potential cumulative impacts included in the geographic scope. As detailed in Section 4.0, Environmental Setting and Impact Analysis, of the DEIR, the cumulative evaluation in the DEIR determined that the cumulatively considerable impacts from implementation of the Project would be less than significant with implementation of the PDFs and mitigation measures that would reduce the potential of project level impacts to become cumulatively significant. Overall, cumulative impacts from implementation of the Project would be less than significant. (DEIR, p. 4.14-7 through 4.14-8.) Specifically, the City hereby finds as follows: 9.17.1 Aesthetics The closest cumulative project is the 2700 North Main Street residential development that is located 0.2 miles north of the Project site and is visible from the site because it is currently developed with an 1I- story office building. This related project involves development of multi -family residences on the site, which would be similar to the character to the proposed Project. The two projects would provide similar multi -family development and would not combine to result in cumulatively considerable impacts. The other cumulative projects are similar to the proposed Project, providing multi -family residential uses that would be consistent with the existing urban, developed character of the viewshed area. As a result, cumulative impacts related to scenic views and visual character and site quality would be less than significant. Cumulative impacts related to shade and shadow would occur when development projects are sufficiently close that shadows from individual buildings combine to create areas of consecutive shading of shadow - sensitive areas. The DEIR details that shadows of the Project do not combine with shadows of other projects to create consecutive shading of any shadow -sensitive areas. Thus, the shading from the Project would not cumulatively combine with other projects, and cumulative impacts related to shade and shadow would be less than cumulatively significant. For these reasons detailed in the DEIR, the Project's cumulative aesthetic effects would not be cumulatively considerable when considered with past, current, and future probable projects. (DEIR, pp. 4.1-26 through 4.1-27.) This conclusion also applies, for the same reasons, to the Modified Project. 9.17.2 Air Quality Resolution No. Page 57 of 76 Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR