Item 28 - GPA No. 2020-07, AA No. 2020-05 - Westview Housing

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GPA No. 2020-07, AA No. 2020-05 - Westview Housing December 14, 2020 Page 7 plexiglass, or wood) to reduce exterior noise levels for all private balconies/patios fronting Westminster Avenue and Fairview Street. Regarding traffic noise, a fifty percent increase is required for an audible 3 dBA increase in traffic noise levels. However, the increase in traffic generated by the proposed project would only be approximately 1.5 percent, which would increase traffic noise by less than 0.5 CNEL (less than 3 dBA). Therefore, operational noise generated by the project would not exceed the SAMC noise standards and impacts would be less than significant with implementation of the mitigation measures. The project requires adoption of a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), which contains mitigation measures to address biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, noise, and tribal cultural resources. Community Outreach The applicant held two outreach meetings. At the Sunshine meeting comments/concerns were raised related to cut -through traffic on 16th Street and Huron Drive, parking intrusion, building heights/setback, the location of trash enclosures and overall management of the project. The site has been designed so that there are no vehicular driveways along Huron Drive therefore, reducing the number of vehicles that may travel through the local residential streets to the project. An excess of 92 parking spaces (per State Housing law) are provided on site and parking counts at another affordable housing development were obtained and substantiate that the project provides adequate parking. The site has been designed to place the buildings along the northwest portion of the site away from .the existing single-family dwellings and the buildings tier down to three -stories as the buildings get closer to the adjacent single-family dwellings. As shown on the landscape plan the south and west lot lines will be planted with a minimum of a 36- inch box tree every 25 feet to screen the project. These site specific designs and standards are codified within the Specific Development No. 97 plan. In addition, a detailed Traffic Impact Analysis was prepared and the Public Works Agency.and planning staff conducted an outreach meeting to overview the results of the study. Table 4: CEQA and Public Notification & Communilly Outreach CEQA Type Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) Environmental Review No. 2020-48, with technical studies was prepared for the project. No areas of significance or unavoidable impacts were determined to occur from the construction or operation of the proposed project with the implementation of mitigation measures (Exhibit 1). The project requires adoption of a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP), which contains mitigation measures to address biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, noise, and tribal cultural resources. Public Notification A notice of intent and MND was circulated to interested parties and published in the Orange County Register on November 6, 2020. The draft MND was available for a 20-day public review at City Hall and on the project webpage on the City's website.