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City Place Focused Environmental Impact Report Responses to Comments CLARIFICATIONS TO THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMP ACT REPORT The following is a listing of clarifications and additions to the City Place Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR). Those parts of text that are underlined indicate revisions by reference to the text of the Draft ErR. SECTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION Section 1.0 of the Draft ErR has been revised to identify the City of Orange as a responsible agency with discretionary approval of traffic improvements implemented in the City of Orange. SECTION 2.0 PROJECT DESCRlPITON AND PROJECT OBJECTIVES Through the response to comment process, the project description for the proposed project has been amended. The proposed 2,000 square foot black box theater has been deleted from the project. In place of the black box theater, 2,000 square feet of retail area or restaurant area would be provided. The overall commercial area of the proposed project would remain at 57,700 square feet. Additionally, a 2-acre parcel of the project site was rezoned to one dwelling unit per acre, resulting in a reduction of 53 residential units. As a result of refinement of the site 2 live/work units were also eliminated. The total amount of residential units proposed on the project site would be 187 residential units. EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL LAND USE CHANGES The following analysis evaluates how the City Place EIR traffic, air and noise analysis would be affected by replacing the 2,000 square foot black box theater with 2,000 square feet of additional retail or restaurant area. The analysis compares the overall daily traffic volumes and the AM and PM Peak Hour traffic volumes. Table 1 identifies the overall daily traffic volumes and the AM and PM Peak Hour traffic volumes for the City Place project with the 2,000 square foot black box theater. Additional Retail Area Table 2 identifies daily traffic volumes and the AM and PM Peak Hour traffic volumes for the City Place proiect with 2.000 square feet of additional retail area in lieu of providing the 2.000 square foot black box theater. As shown in Table 2. the substitution of the black box theater with additional retail area would have a insignificant impact on the overall daily traffic volumes and the AM and PM Peak Hour Traffic volumes generated by the City Place proiect. when compared to the proiect with the black box theater. Without the black box theater and with the additional retail area. the overall daily traffic volumes generated from the proiect would decrease by 70 vehicle trips. Overall traffic volumes are used to measure roadway capacity impacts. air quality impacts and noise impacts. A reduction in 70 vehicle trips would have a slightly beneficial impact on roadway capacity. air quality emissions and mobile source noise levels. The reduction in the overall traffic volumes would not have any U: \DBott\wp51 ICity Place Council Change Clarifications.doc January 2005 C-l EXHIBIT B 75A-271