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Harbor Boulevard Mixed Use Transit Corridor Plan <br />Findings and Facts in Support of Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations <br />A. IMPLEMENTS THE OBJECTIVES ESTABLISHED FOR THE PROJECT <br />The City established the following objectives for the Harbor Boulevard Mixed Use Transit <br />Corridor Plan project to aid decision - makers in their review of the project and associated <br />environmental impacts: <br />• Provide for the development of the site consistent with City's General Plan. <br />• Provide for new housing and mixed -use development opportunities. <br />• Expand development opportunities that respond to transit investments. <br />• Create economic vitality by providing new opportunities for businesses and <br />residents. <br />• Provide a variety of safe and efficient travel choices and access to multi -modal <br />transportation. <br />• Create a sense of place. <br />• Enhance community health and wellness by creating safer street design for <br />multiple modes of travel, increase walkability and encourage live /work along the <br />corridor. <br />Implementation of the project would meet all of these objectives. <br />B. IMPLEMENTS THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF <br />GOVERNMENT'S HIGH QUALITY TRANSIT AREAS <br />The Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG) is a council of <br />governments representing Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, <br />and Ventura counties. SCAG is the federally recognized metropolitan planning <br />organization for this region, which encompasses over 38,000 square miles. SCAG is a <br />regional planning agency and a forum for addressing regional issues concerning <br />transportation, the economy, community development, and the environment. On April 4, <br />2012, SCAG adopted the 2012 -2035 Regional Transportation Plan /Sustainable <br />Communities Strategy (RTP /SCS). The RTP /SCS provides a blueprint for improving <br />quality of life for residents by providing more choices for where they will live, work, and <br />play and how they will move around. <br />With the adoption of the 2012 RTP /SCS, the areas previously known as 2% Strategy <br />Opportunity Areas were updated by SCAG and replaced with what are now called high <br />quality transit areas (HQTA), which are a part of and integrated into the SCS portion <br />(Chapter 4) of the 2012 RTP /SCS. An HQTA is generally a walkable transit village or <br />corridor that is within a half mile of a well- serviced transit stop or a transit corridor with <br />15- minute or less service frequency during peak commute hours. The overall land use <br />pattern of the 2012 RTP /SCS focuses jobs and housing in the region's designated <br />HQTAs (SCAG 2012). The entire project site is identified as an HQTA in the 2012 <br />RTP /SCS. <br />48 July 2014 <br />