2025-041 - Certifing Final Supplemental Enviromental Impact for The Village

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Attainment of Project Objectives: The No Project/No Build Alternative not meet any of the project objectives listed in Section 2.3, Project Objectives. The No Project/No Build Alternative would continue the operation of the existing South Coast Plaza Village and maintain the existing seven commercial buildings and surface parking. The No Project/No Build Alternative would not implement the mixed-use development, containing integrated residential and commercial uses, which contributes to the creation of a vibrant urban core by enhancing community amenities, recreational, and open space areas and providing alternative transportation and mobility options in the GPU South Bristol Street Focus Area. The Project site would remain a conventional auto- oriented shopping plaza with large surface parking areas. (Draft Supplemental EIR, pp. 6-13—6-14.) Findings: The City Council rejects Alternative 1: No ProjectlNo Build Alternative, on the following grounds, each of which individually provides sufficient justification for rejection of this alternative: (1)the alternative fails to meet any of the basic Project objectives; (2)the alternative would result in increased impacts relating to land use and planning; and (3) the alternative is infeasible. 9.2.2 Alternative 2: Reduced Project Alternative The Reduced Project Alternative would reduce the commercial square footage, change the residential mix to reduce the number of residents, and remove the office uses from the mixed use development to minimize operational impacts to volatile organic compounds associated with area sources and construction-related impacts related to ground disturbance. Alternative 2 would reduce the total commercial square footage to 50,000 square feet, provide 1,433 multi-family residential units and 150 senior (age restricted) living units, and provide 7.5 acres of publicly accessible parks/recreation facilities and open space. To support the Reduced Project Alternative's mix of uses, the total number of parking stalls would be reduced to 2,296 stalls. Further, the total amount of bicycle stalls would be reduced to 138 stalls. Maximum excavation depths would reach 14 feet below ground surface (bgs) for one level of subterranean parking under this alternative. (Draft Supplemental EIR, p. 6-14.) Environmental Effects: The Reduced Project Alternative would result in a reduced magnitude of construction-related impacts to air quality, GHG emissions, and noise. However, as with the Project, impacts would still be less than significant or less than significant with mitigation, which would be similar to those of the Project due to the similar types of construction activities. During operation, the Reduced Project Alternative would be expected to result in reduced emissions of criteria pollutants and GHGs, energy consumption, vehicle miles traveled, overall population, and demand for public services, parks, and utility services. The overall reduction in volume of these factors would occur primarily due to the reduced commercial square footage elimination of office uses, and the replacement of some standard residential units with senior living residences. The Reduced Project Alternative would provide 7.5 acres of publicly accessible parks/recreation facilities and open space, resulting in a slightly higher recreation-to-resident ratio of 2.1 acres per 1,000 residents than the Project. However, significant and unavoidable impacts to recreation would remain. Although the volume of impacts would be reduced by the Reduced Project Alternative in comparison to the Project, the Reduced Project Alternative would not eliminate the significant and unavoidable recreation impacts or the less than significant impacts of the Project. (Draft Supplemental EIR, pp. 6-14—6-20.) Attainment of Project Objectives: The Reduced Project Alternative would meet the project objectives, but not to the same extent as the Project. The Reduced Project Alternative would still transform the conventional auto-oriented shopping plaza with large surface parking areas to a Resolution No. 2025-041 Page 101 of 140