2009-034 (2) - Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for Fairhaven/Lincoln

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4. Environmental Setting 4.7 INTRODUCTION The purpose of this section is to provide, pursuant to provisions of the California Environmental Q uality Act { E A ) and the State CE OA Guidelines, a "description of the physical environmental conditions in the vicinity of the project, as they exist at the time the notice of preparation is published, from both a local and a regional perspective." The environmental setting will provide a set of baseline physical conditions from which the lead agency will determine the significance of environmental impacts resulting from the proposed project. 4.2 REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING 4. 2.1 Regional Lo ti n As shown previously in Figure 3 -1, Regional Location, and Figure 3 -2, Local Vicinity, the project site is in the City of Santa Ana, in Orange County, Changes to the project include construction of improvements at the intersections of Fairhaven Avenue at Lincoln Avenue, and Banta Clara Avenue t\ Lincoln Avenue, and along Lincoln Avenue from Fairhaven Avenue to Park Lane. These intersections and the roadway segment are approximately 0.2 mile south of State route SR -2 }(Garden Grove Freeway) and approximately one mile east of Interstate 1- (Banta Ana Freeway) . 4.2.2 Regional Planning Considerations Air Quality Management Plan The project site is in the South Coast Air Basin So AB . This air basin contains the largest urban area in the western U.S. The BoCAB is a 6,045- square -mile coastal plain with connecting broad valleys and low hills and is bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Bari Gabriel, Ban Bernardino, and Ban Jacinto Mountains to the north and east. The SoCAB includes all of the nondesert portions of San Bernardino, Las Angeles non— Antelope Malley portion), and Riverside counties, and all of orange County, The South Coast Air Quality Management District BGA M and the Southern California Association of Governments (SLAG) are responsible for formulating and implementing the Air Quality Management Plan ( l f P ) for the SoGAB. The A AMP is a comprehensive plan that includes control strategies for stationary and area sources, as well as for on -road and off -road mobile sources. The AQ M P provides local guidance for the State Implementation Plan (SIP ), which provides the framework for air quality basins to achieve attainment of the state and federal ambient air quality standards. Areas that meet ambient air quality standards are classified as ` ° attainment " areas, while areas that do not meet these standards are classified as 61 nonattainment13 areas, SoCAB is currently in nonattainr ent for Ozone, Fine Particulate Matter (P1 2-1 ), Coarse Particulate Matter (PM,,))- The project's consistency with the applicable policies and standards of the A I P is analyzed in detail in Section 5.1 , Air Quality. FazrhavenlLincoln and Santa ClaralLincoln Intersection Modifications City of Santa Ana 0 Page 4 -1 Sent to the Santa Ana Second Main Track Project r1R Resolution No. 2009 -034 Page 39 of 130