2007-026 - Approving the Final Environmental Impact

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Chapter 4 Statement of Overriding Considerations 4.2.2 First and Cabrillo Towers Alternatives (Project-Level) Air Quality Impact 4.2-6 Construction activities associated with the proposed project would exceed South Coast Air Quality Management District Standards for VOC and NOx, and would result in a projected air quality violation. Construction of the proposed project could result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of criteria pollutants for which the proposed project region is in nonattainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air quality standard. Impact 4.2-7 Impact 4.2-8 Construction activities associated with the proposed project would generate emissions that would result in exceedance of localized significance thresholds established by the SCAQMD, and could therefore expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations. Cumulatively, the proposed project would also have significant and unavoidable impacts with regards to the above-mentioned impacts. . Short-Term Impacts Of the three significant unavoidable impacts direcdy attributable to the proposed project and associated cumulative impacts, as identified above, all would occur during construction activities and would be considered short-term. . Long-Term Impacts Of the three significant unavoidable impacts direcdy attributable to the proposed project and associated cumulative impacts, as identified above, none of the aforementioned impacts are considered long-term. 4.3 FINDINGS The City has evaluated all feasible mitigation measures and project revisions with respect to these impacts (see Chapter 2, CEQA Findings). The City has also examined a reasonable range of alternatives to the proposed project (see Chapter 3, Findings Regarding Project Alternatives). Based on this examination, the City has determined that, from a programmatic perspective, the No Project/Reasonably Foreseeable Development Alternative (Alternative 1) and, with respect to the First and Cabrillo Towers development, the Reduced Residential Component (Alternative 3) are considered to be the environmentally superior alternatives for their respective analyses, whether program- or project-leveL While each of the program- and project-level alternatives listed above would potentially result in less significant environmental impacts than the proposed project, the City finds these alternatives infeasible and less desirable than the proposed project and has rejected these alternatives from further consideration because they would not achieve the enviroruncntal, economic, social, and other considerations outlined in Chapter 3 (Findings Regarding Project Alternatives). Metro East Mixed Use Overlay Zone EIR Findings of Fael/Statement of Overriding Co~8~t1BX~ ~;g:~~:~~~ 4-3