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<br />Legacy Sunflower Apartments Page 35 <br />Mitigated Negative Declaration – March 14, 2019 <br /> <br /> Schools, playgrounds and childcare centers <br /> Long-term health care facilities <br /> Rehabilitation centers <br /> Convalescent centers <br /> Hospitals <br /> Retirement homes <br /> Residences4 <br /> <br />The closest sensitive receptors to the project site are the students and administrators at the Taft <br />Elementary School adjacent to and north of the site and the multi-family development adjacent to the <br />east, residents of The Enclave apartment project to the south (south of Sunflower Avenue), residents of <br />the Avenue of the Arts apartment project to the southwest (southwest of the intersection of Sunflower <br />Avenue and Sakioka Drive) and residents of the multi-family development to the west (west of Flower <br />Street). <br /> <br />State – California Air Resources Board <br /> <br />The California Air Resources Board (CARB), which is a part of the California Environmental Protection <br />Agency, is responsible for the coordination and administration of both federal and state air pollution <br />control programs within California. In this capacity, the CARB conducts research, sets the California <br />Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS), compiles emission inventories, develops suggested control <br />measures, provides oversight of local programs, and prepares the State Implementation Plan (SIP). <br />The California Ambient Air Quality Standards (CAAQS) for criteria pollutants are shown in Table 1. In <br />addition, the CARB establishes emission standards for motor vehicles sold in California, consumer <br />products (e.g., hairspray, aerosol paints, and barbeque lighter fluid), and various types of commercial <br />equipment. It also sets fuel specifications to further reduce vehicular emissions. <br /> <br />Table 1 <br />State and Federal Criteria Pollutant Standards <br /> <br />Air Pollutant <br />Concentration / Averaging Time <br />Most Relevant Effects <br />California <br />Standards <br />Federal Primary <br />Standards <br />Ozone (O3) <br />0.09 ppm/1- <br />hour <br />0.07 ppm/8- <br />hour <br />0.070 ppm/8-hour <br />(a) Decline in pulmonary function and localized lung <br />edema in humans and animals; (b) Risk to public <br />health implied by alterations in pulmonary <br />morphology and host defense in animals; (c) <br />Increased mortality risk; (d) Risk to public health <br />implied by altered connective tissue metabolism <br />and altered pulmonary morphology in animals after <br />long-term exposures and pulmonary function <br />decrements in chronically exposed humans; (e) <br />Vegetation damage; and (f) Property damage. <br />Carbon <br />Monoxide (CO) <br />20.0 ppm/1- <br />hour <br />9.0 ppm/8- <br />hour <br />35.0 ppm/1-hour <br />9.0 ppm/8-hour <br />(a) Aggravation of angina pectoris and other <br />aspects of coronary heart disease; (b) Decreased <br />exercise tolerance in persons with peripheral <br />vascular disease and lung disease; (c) Impairment <br />of central nervous system functions; and (d) <br /> <br />4 South Coast Air Quality Management District, Guidance Document for Addressing Air Quality Issues in General Plans and Local <br />Planning, Chapter 2, page 2-1. <br />6-57