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South Coast Technology Center Project <br />CEQA Exemption 15183 <br />4.2 Agriculture and Forestry Resources <br />4.2.1 GPU PER Findings <br />As stated in the GPU PEIR, most of the City is urbanized and developed. The City does not have <br />any land designated or zoned for agricultural use, forestland, timberland, or timberland <br />production. Additionally, the City does not have any land subject to a Williamson Act contract. <br />Therefore, no impact to agricultural and forestry resources would occur with buildout of the <br />General Plan Update. <br />4.2.2 Project Analysis <br />The Project Site comprises an existing 10.2-acre office park that is fully developed with buildings, <br />an artificial pond, and parking, and an approximately 5.6-acre vacant field. The vacant field does <br />not contain any agricultural, forestland, or timberland uses. The Project Site is zoned SD-58, <br />which allows for professional and business office and commercial/retail uses. The Project <br />proposes to amend SD-58 to allow for industrial uses. The Project does not involve any land use <br />changes related to agriculture, forest land, or timberland production. Furthermore, the Project Site <br />and surrounding area are not designated as Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or Farmland of <br />Statewide Importance, and do not include lands that qualify as forest land or timberland.' <br />Therefore, similar to the GPU PEIR conclusion, no impact to agricultural and forestry resources <br />would occur as a result of the Project. Based on the above, the Project would not result in new <br />or substantially more severe impacts compared to the determination in the GPU PEIR, and no <br />new project -specific mitigation measures are required. <br />4.2.3 Conclusion <br />The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update and would not have any specific effects <br />which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no project -specific impacts or <br />potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there <br />are no new significant or substantially more severe impacts to agriculture and forestry resources <br />than anticipated by the GPU PER. <br />4.2.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures <br />No GPU PEIR regulatory requirements or mitigation measures apply. <br />4.3 Air Quality <br />4.3.1 GPU PER Findings <br />The GPU PEIR analyzed the General Plan Update's consistency with South Coast Air Quality <br />Management District's (SCAQMD) 2016 Air Quality Management Plan (AQMP), which was the <br />latest AQMP when the GPU PEIR was prepared. The GPU PEIR concluded that buildout of the <br />General Plan Update would exceed population estimates for the City, and therefore the emissions <br />associated with the additional population are not included in the regional emissions inventory for <br />the South Coast Air Basin (Basin). Additionally, air pollutant emissions associated with buildout <br />of the General Plan Update would cumulatively contribute to the nonattainment designations in <br />the Basin. Therefore, overall, the GPU would be inconsistent with the AQMP. Even with GPU <br />PEIR Mitigation Measures (MM) AQ-1 and MM AQ-2, requiring the preparation of a project - <br />specific technical assessment of construction and operational -related air quality impacts, and <br />a California Department of Conservation, California Important Farmland Finder, https:Hmaps.conservation.ca.gov/ <br />DLRP/CIFF/, accessed February 27, 2024. <br />July 2024 Page 18 <br />