Item 26 - Public Hearing Regarding Bristol Project

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Related Bristol Specific Plan Entitlements & Development Agreement (3600 S. Bristol St.) and Staff Resolution Modifying Parking Districts in the Surrounding Area October 1, 2024 Page 27 phone number and email to the case planner. As of the date of the publication of this report, over three -dozen individuals had contacted the City directly to obtain additional information about the project. Lastly, City staff have made themselves available on a regular basis to answer the community's questions about the proposed development through in -person meetings. Community members who contacted staff to learn more about the project were invited meet with staff to learn how to understand the draft environmental documents and the draft Specific Plan, and to answer broader questions about the General Plan Update and its environmental documentation. These individuals were also added to the City's notification list for the project. Mandatory Notification Measures Project notifications were posted, published, and mailed in accordance with City and State regulations. Copies of the public notice, including a 2,000-foot notification radius map, and the site posting are provided in Exhibit 13. In addition, staff contacted the provided contacts for the Sandpointe, South Coast, Republic Homes, Metro Classic, Morning Sunwood, Thornton Park, Sunwood Central, and the Rosewood Baker Neighborhood Associations to ensure they were aware of the project and public hearing. ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF THE RELATED BRISTOL SPECIFIC PLAN, ENTITLEMENTS & DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT General Plan Update (GPU) Final Program Environmental Impact Report (Final PEIR) In April 2022, the City certified the GPU Final PEIR (SCH No. 2020029087) and adopted the GPU. The GPU Final PEIR is a Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) that examines the existing environment and the total scope of environmental effects that would occur as a result of buildout of the GPU land uses. As a Program EIR, the document comprehensively evaluated the potential environmental impacts stemming from adoption of the General Plan Update and subsequent implementing projects. Moreover, this type of EIR allows subsequent implementing activities, such as the proposed Specific Plan, to be evaluated through "tiering." Tiering refers to the coverage of general matters in broader EIRs, such as the GPU Final PEIR, with subsequent narrower EIRs or ultimately site -specific EIRs incorporating by reference the general discussions and concentrating solely on the issues specific to the EIR subsequently prepared, such as in the case of the Related Bristol Specific Plan's Supplemental EIR, which has been prepared for the Project. Tiering is appropriate when the sequence of EIRs is (1) from a general plan, policy, or program EIR to a program, plan, or policy EIR of lesser scope or to a site -specific EIR, (2) from an EIR on a specific action at an early stage to a subsequent EIR or a supplement to an EIR at a later stage.