2025-041 - Certifing Final Supplemental Enviromental Impact for The Village

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Attainment of Project Objectives: The Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would not fully meet all of the project objectives. Though the Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would transform the conventional auto-oriented shopping plaza with large surface parking areas to a mixed-use development,this alternative would not maximize the opportunities as described in the project objectives as there would be fewer retail services and park space, no office uses, and no subsurface shared parking areas. The reduced commercial and removal of office uses would result in a net decrease of jobs from existing conditions that would not fully maximize the economic opportunities of the project site as encouraged by the GPU or complement the South Coast Metro area with a diversity of new housing in a jobs-rich environment. (Draft Supplemental EIR, p. 6-28.) Findings: The City Council rejects Alternative 3: Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative, on the following grounds, each of which individually provides sufficient justification for rejection of this alternative: (1) the alternative fails to meet the basic Project objectives to the same extent as the proposed Project; and (2) the alternative fails to avoid or reduce the Project's significant and unavoidable impacts relating to recreation. 9.3 ENVIRONMENTALLY SUPERIOR ALTERNATIVE CEQA requires a lead agency to identify the environmentally superior alternative when significant environmental impacts result from a proposed project and, in cases where the "No Project' Alternative is environmentally superior to the project, the environmentally superior development alternative must be identified. The Environmentally Superior Alternative for the proposed project would be the No ProjecttNo Build Alternative. When the No Project alternative is identified as the environmentally superior alternative, the EIR shall also identify an environmentally superior alternative among the other alternatives. (State CEQA Guidelines, §15126.6(3)(1).) One alternative has been identified as "environmentally superior"to the Project: the Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative. The reduction or elimination of project components under this alternative would result in reduced impacts to operational air quality emissions, energy, GHG emissions, noise, population and housing, transportation, and demand for public services and utility services. The Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would still require mitigation measures during construction related to air quality, cultural resources, geology and soils, noise, and tribal cultural resources, though the residual impacts would be less than those of the Project. Operation of the Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would still result in less than significant impacts that are similar when compared to the Project for hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, and land use and planning. This alternative would also result in reduced operational air quality emissions, eliminating the need for the Project- Specific MM AQ-1.The Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would provide 6.8 acres of publicly accessible parks/recreation facilities and open space, resulting in a recreation-to-resident ratio of 2.8 acres per 1,000 residents which is higher than the 1.2 ratio of the GPU PEI R but lower than the CPU's parkland standard of 3 acres per 1,000 residents. Thus, significant and unavoidable impacts to recreation would remain. Although the volume of impacts would be reduced by the Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative in comparison to the Project, the Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would not eliminate the significant and unavoidable recreation impacts or the less than significant impacts of the Project. The Reduced Project with No Subterranean Parking Alternative would provide fewer residential units, retail services, and no office uses, and thus would implement the GPU South Bristol Street Focus Area objectives and many of the SCAG policies related to high- Resolution No. 2025-041 Page 103 of 140