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would remain significant and unavoidable, no new or greater impacts related to changes to views from Santiago Park would occur from implementation of the Modified Project. Viewpoint D: N. Spurgeon Street. Figure 11 provides a comparison of the existing view of the Project site from N. Spurgeon Street, the change to the view as described in the EIR, and the change to the view that would occur from implementation of the Modified Project. The Modified Project includes a minimum of a 90-foot building setback from the eastern boundary of the Project site and buffered by landscaping. This is an increased setback of 50-feet in comparison to the Original Project, which included a 40-foot minimum setback. As shown on Figure 1, Modified Project Site Plan, and Figure 5, Modified Project Conceptual Building Elevations, the proposed 4-story (approximately 49-foot 5-inch high) structures would be set behind the 2-story (approximately 24-feet high) and 3-story (approximately 36 feet high) portions of the Project. The 4-story structure would be more than 16 feet lower in height than the approximately 65-foot high structures that were previously proposed. As shown in Figure 11, with implementation of Mitigation Measure AES-1 and Project Design Feature PDF-1, which would increase landscaping along the eastern boundary through installation of new trees ranging in size from 24- to 48-inch box trees and protection of the existing healthy trees, a large majority of the Project structure rooflines generated by the Modified Project would not be seen from N. Spurgeon Street. The 50-foot increased setback and lower structures would screen views of the buildings developed by the Modified Project. Limited views of the Modified Project could occur at some points along N. Spurgeon Street. However, these views would be less than what would occur by the Original Project, under which views of some of the 5th floor units would be visible from N. Spurgeon Street, as shown in Figure 11. Also, due to the planned location of the parking structure in the central portion of the Project site, it would not be visible from N. Spurgeon Street. The trajectory of views from the viewpoint along N. Spurgeon Street are shown on Figure 11. The design of the Project in combination with line-of-sight from N. Spurgeon result in the parking structure being screened from view. Any potential views of the parking structure from other locations to the east of the Project site would be within background views, which would be similar to, but lower in height than, views of the Original Project. Therefore, the Modified Project would result in reduced visual impacts from N. Spurgeon Street compared to the Original Project, and no new or greater impacts related to changes to views from N. Spurgeon Street would occur from implementation of the Modified Project. Viewpoint F: Edgewood Road at N. Bush Street. Figure 12 provides a comparison of the existing view of the Project site from Edgewood Road at N. Bush Street, the change to the view as described in the EIR, and the change to the view that would occur from implementation of the Modified Project. The Modified Project would change views from Edgewood Road at N. Bush Street from that of a vacant surface parking lot to views of a multi-story residential building set behind a surface parking lot that provides a building setback of approximately 134 feet. The background views of urban buildings would become middle ground views, and forefront views would be of the surface parking lot. The size and scale of the proposed structures would increase the overall visual density of the built environment. The difference in visual scale and height with the proposed structure, would be substantial and considered significant pursuant to the City’s criteria. Thus, the visual change related to the height, scale, and setback from the Modified Project at the Edgewood Road and N. Bush Street viewpoint would continue to be significant and unavoidable. However, the Modified Project would be lower in height and smaller in scale than the Original Project. The structures proposed by the Modified Project on the southern portion of the Project site near Edgewood Road at Bush Street would be 4-stories with a roofline of approximately 49-feet 5-inches from the ground surface (shown on Figure 5 [south elevation]). The buildings along Edgewood Road at Bush Street would be between 16-feet 3-inches lower in height than the approximately 65-foot high 5-story Original Project buildings in the southern portion of the site and would be set behind the surface parking lot, providing greater visual distance and less visual density (as shown in Figure 12). The 59 foot high parking structure (that would be 31 feet lower than the Original Project parking structure) would not be visible from this viewpoint/trajectory, as it would be located behind the 4-story residential building, but it could be visible in background views from other locations farther back from the Project site that may allow for a higher/taller view perspective. 2-142