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Warner Redhill Mixed -Use Development Project August 18, 2020 Page 8 CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), an environmental impact report (EIR) was prepared for this project. To determine what potential effects would be caused by the project, the Draft EIR analyzed issues related to Aesthetics; Air Quality; Cultural Resources; Energy; Geology and Soils; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; Hazardous Materials; Hydrology and Water Quality; Land Use and Planning; Noise; Population and Housing; Public Services and Recreation; Transportation; Tribal Cultural Resources; Utilities and Service Systems; and Project Alternatives. The Draft EIR analyzed the direct and indirect impacts resulting from construction and operation of the proposed project. On July 26, 2019, the Notice of Availability was released to solicit comments regarding the scope and content of the Draft EIR (DEIR). A scoping meeting was held on August 15, 2019 with one (1) person in attendance and 10 written comment letters received at the conclusion of the 30-day public comment period. The comments were reviewed and addressed as required by the CEQA. The comments are included as part of the Final EIR. On January 3, 2020, the Draft EIR was circulated for review and comment to the public, City Council, Planning Commission, local, regional and state agencies, and interested parties for a 45-day public comment review period, which ended on February 18, 2020. In addition, a Planning Commission work-study session was held on February 10, 2020 where staff presented the proposed project and described the Draft EIR. The City has evaluated the comments received from persons and agencies on the Draft EIR and completed detailed Response to Comments, revisions to the Draft EIR including clarifications and/or corrections to typographical errors, and prepared a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP). The MMRP contains mitigation measures to address impacts to Air Quality, Geology and Soils, Hazards and Hazardous Materials, Hydrology and Water Quality, Transportation, and Tribal Cultural Resources. The response to comments, MMRP and Final EIR were published on April 27, 2020 for public review. The Draft EIR, responses to comments document, revisions to the Draft EIR, and the MMRP constitute the Final EIR for the project. Three project alternatives were also analyzed within the document. These included a no build alternative, where the existing buildings would remain on site as is and be reoccupied by an office/industrial use (Alternative 1); a reduced multi -family project consisting of a 30 percent reduction in residential density and commercial square footages (Alternative 2); and build out of the site under the existing Professional zoning district development standards, which could result in an approximately 317,552-square foot light industrial office/industrial building (Alternative 3). The Draft EIR determined that the proposed project would require mitigation related to aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, hazardous materials, construction noise and vibration, interior noise, transportation, and tribal resources. The EIR identifies significant and unavoidable impacts associated with this project pertaining to Air Quality, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Transportation. Air Quality impacts stem from emissions from operation of the project exceeding SCAQMD's threshold for volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that would be derived from consumer products and vehicular activity that neither the applicant nor the City have the ability to reduce. Greenhouse Gas Emissions impacts stem from approximately 60 percent of the GHG emissions being generated by vehicle trips. Neither the applicant nor the City can substantively or materially reduce the vehicular -source GHG emissions. Lastly, Transportation impacts stem from the project's requirement to pay fair share funds to improve right -turn overlap phasing at the intersections of Grand and Warner avenues and Redhill and Alton avenues, calculated at 5.93 and 8.57 percent, respectively, and 75C-8