55B - RESO - EIR BRISTOL ST WIDENING

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTADDENDUM Bristol Street Widening Phase IIIB — Washington Avenue to 17" Street 1.3 Project Background 1.3.1 Approved 1990 Final EIR/E/S The City of Santa Ana General Plan designates Bristol Street as a Major Arterial Highway traveling in a north -south direction. As a result of significant growth and traffic congestion on Bristol Street, the City of Santa Ana, in the late 1980s, proposed to widen Bristol Street from a four -lane roadway to a six -lane arterial in accordance with adopted County of Orange and City of Santa Ana standards for a Major Arterial Highway. A joint EIS/EIR was prepared and approved by the City of Santa Ana and the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) for the widening of Bristol Street in 1990. The 1990 Project entailed a 3.9 -mile segment of Bristol Street from Warner Avenue to Memory Lane. Due to significant costs associated with construction and availability of funding, the street widening Project was divided into three phases; Phase I, from Warner Avenue north to First Street; Phase II, consisting of the widening and reconstruction of the bridge which crosses Santiago Creek (northerly limits of the street widening Project); and Phase III, between First Street and Memory Lane. Subsequently, and also due to funding programming and availability, the Phase III segment has been further divided into two separate segments: Phase IIIA, Civic Center Drive to Washington Avenue; and Phase IIIB (the subject of this Addendum), Washington Avenue to 176' Street. The Bristol Street widening segments, as described above, operate independently; that is, operation of one segment is not dependent on another. The 1990 FEIS /EIR (SCH No. 87071509) was approved on November 19, 1990. The 1990 FEIS /EIR and associated technical studies, incorporated herein by reference, documented the environmental impacts of widening Bristol Street from Warner Avenue to Memory Lane in the City of Santa Ana. As stated in the 1990 FEIS/EIR, the purpose and goals of the Bristol Street Widening Project were to: 1. Provide sufficient roadway capacity to accommodate current and future traffic demand. 2. Improve the performance and safety of the roadway for the benefit of the motoring public. 3. To reduce current and projected future delays experienced at major intersections and to design intersections to function at acceptable Levels of Service (LOS). 4. To design the roadway in manner conducive to the provision of public transportation, namely bus service provided by the Orange County Transit District (OCTD). 1.3.2 Adopted Transportation Improvement Program The Bristol Street Widening Project is fully funded and included in the Southern California Association of Government's (SCAG's) 2012 Regional Transportation Plan titled 2012 -2035 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTPISCS): Towards a Sustainable Future (2012 RTP) (RTP ID ORA125). The project is also currently listed in SCAG's financially constrained 2013 Federal Transportation Improvement Program (2013 FTIP) for fiscal year 2012/2013 — 2015/2016. The project entry in the 2013 FTIP identifies the following scope of work BRISTOL ST (WARNER TO MEMORY LANE) WIDEN FROM 4 TO 6 LANES (IMPV AT BRISTOUWARNER (ADD NB/EB/SB THRU LNS; WB RT TRN LN) AND BRISTOURRST (ADD NBISB THRU LNS; SB LFTIRTITRN LNS). ANA 111 -334 (PER- 02 -0t) CITY OF SANTA ANA (11/25/2013 REV2) 132897 CM PAGE 8 55B -15