Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

Home Browse Search

South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 4.12.2 Project Analysis The Project Site is located in the southwestern portion of the City, and is mapped MRZ-3, like most of the City. While the significance of mineral deposits cannot be determined from available data in areas mapped as MRZ-3, the City does not have mineral resource sectors. The Project Site is not used as a mineral extraction operation, has not historically been used for mineral resource extraction, and the proposed Project would not include any mineral extraction. Therefore, implementation of the proposed Project would not result in the loss of availability of a known mineral resource that would be of value to the region and the residents of the State and would not result in the loss of availability of a locally important mineral resource recovery site delineated on a local General Plan, specific plan, or other land use plan. Therefore, consistent with the General Plan Update, impacts to mineral resources would be less than significant. Based on the above, the Project would not result in new or substantially more severe impacts compared to the determinations of the GPU PEIR, which concluded that impacts to mineral resources would be less than significant. Therefore, no new project -specific mitigation measures are required. 4.12.3 Conclusion The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update and would not have any specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no Project specific impacts or potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there are no new significant or substantially more severe impacts to mineral resources than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.12.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures No GPU PEIR regulatory requirements or mitigation measures apply. 4.13 Noise 4.13.1 GPU PEIR Findings The GPU PEIR concluded that implementation of the General Plan Update has the potential to result in significant temporary and permanent increases of noise levels throughout the City from construction activities and land use development projects. The General Plan Update included regulations designed to protect new sensitive land uses from excessive noise levels, including GPU PEIR MM N-1, which prescribes measures for construction activities. However, due to the potential for proximity of construction activities to sensitive uses, the number of construction projects occurring simultaneously, and the potential duration of construction activities, the GPU PEIR concluded that construction activities could result in a temporary substantial increase in noise levels above ambient conditions and impacts would remain significant and unavoidable even with mitigation. The GPU PEIR also identified that buildout of the General Plan Update would result in an increase in traffic along local roadways proximate to existing sensitive receptors and could exceed noise standards on several roadway segments. Although policies identified in the General Plan Update Noise Element and Mobility Element would help to minimize and mitigate traffic noise impacts along several roadway segments, the GPU PEIR conservatively concluded that traffic noise increase on the roadway segments would be significant and unavoidable. However, the GPU PEIR also noted that the identification of program -level impacts does not preclude the finding of less -than -significant impacts for subsequent projects analyzed at the project level. July 2024 Page 76