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EDUCATION BS, Environmental Science, University of California, Los Angeles YEARS OF EXPERIENCE Rlncon Consultants, Inc. Environmental Scientists • Planners - Engineers Vanessa Villanueva Associate Environmental Planner Ms. Villanueva responsible for preparing environmental and planning documents, assisting with public and private sector contract planning services, and providing technical impact analyses for a variety of projects. She has experience preparing and editing environmental analyses in accordance with CEQA and NEPA for infrastructure, housing and urban development, and long-range planning projects. Her responsibilities include performing research and analysis and/or completing assignments within agency offices and for private sector clients; preparing CEQA and NEPA environmental assessments and technical studies, including air quality, energy, greenhouse gas, and noise studies; assisting with the preparation of General Plans and other comprehensive planning documents; conducting and coordination noise - monitoring efforts; and interacting with various members of public agency and private client staff on matters related to land use planning, CEQA/NEPA compliance, and land development application processing. SELECT PROJECT EXPERIENCE Development Projects Assistant Project Manager/Noise Analyst, City of Santa Ana — Westview Housing Project IS-MND, Santa Ana Ms. Villanueva served as an assistant project manager for an IS-MND for construction of 85 apartment units within two 3- to 4-story buildings and 136 parking spaces on a 2.1-acre project site. All units, except the manager's unit, would be designated as affordable housing units. Her responsibilities included internal management of a team and coordination between the team and City staff. Ms. Villanueva also conducted the noise and vibration analysis, including necessary technical modeling, for the IS-MND. Project Manager/Technical Analyst, The Ketter Group —Technical Studies for CEQA Class 32 (In -Fill Development) Categorical Exemptions, Los Angeles Ms. Villanueva has managed various technical air quality and noise studies for CEQA Class 32 (in -fill development) project applications for multi -family housing projects. Her responsibilities have included conducting noise -monitoring, technical modeling, and coordinating a team to prepare these studies. Typical project's include low- to mid -rise mixed -use or multi -family development with units allocated toward low- income individuals or families. CEQA/Technical Analyst, City of Walnut —The Terraces at Walnut Specific Plan EIR, Walnut Ms. Villanueva served as a CEQA and technical analyst in assisting the City of Walnut with an EIR for a proposed Specific Plan, which involved a mixed -use infill project that included various housing types, a commercial district, parks and recreation areas, and open space, such as landscaped slopes, on 49 acres of vacant land. The major issues of concern were associated with impacts to aesthetics, biological resources, noise and transportation. Her responsibilities included conducting on -site noise monitoring and drafting the noise and vibration analysis as well as the air quality and greenhouse gases analysis for the EIR.