2015-016 - The Bristol Street Widening Project

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTADDENDUM Bristol Street Widening Project Warner Ave to Saint Andrew Place (Phase IV) 1.0 INTRODUCTION This Addendum has been prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), as amended, to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the proposed changes to the widening of Bristol Street, from Warner Avenue to Memory Lane as proposed in the Project Final Environmental hnpact Statement / Environmental Impact Report (FEIS /EIR) approved in 1990 (FHWA -CA- EIS- 89 -01- F; SCH No. 87071509). This Addendum focuses on the segment of Bristol Street between Warner Avenue and Saint Andrew Place (Phase IV, or Project) and is limited to the proposed improvements to this segment. This Addendum provides an assessment of potential environmental impacts associated with minor design modifications and the issue of climate change which was not addressed in the previously prepared and certified FEIS /EIR. Design modifications to the Project, since approval of the 1990 FEIS /EIR, that are addressed in this Addendum include the following: • The proposed Project increases the total right -of -way width from 120 feet to 128 feet. The proposed Project right- of-way cross- section would maintain a curb -to -curb width of 100 feet, would accommodate a 7 -foot wide bike lane on each side of the roadway, and would not affect the number or width of vehicular travel lanes as compared to the right -of -way cross - section addressed in the 1990 FEIS/EIR. However, the proposed Project right -of -way cross section, as compared to the right- of-way cross section addressed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR, would reduce the width of the sidewalks from 10 to 8 feet and also accommodate a 6 -foot wide parkway on each side of Bristol Street to separate pedestrian and vehicular travel; a parkway was not included as part of the roadway cross section addressed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR. Acquisition of property resulting from the proposed Project right - of -way is accounted for in this analysis. • The centerline alignment has been shifted to the west starting at St. Gertrude instead of starting at Glenwood Place with the addition of 4 -feat to the original 20 -foot shift. The street centerline then shifted back 4 -feet to the east at St. Andrew in order to match the existing centerline north of St. Andrew. By shifting the centerline at St. Gertrude, the Phase IV Project saved eight parcels from full take by reducing these parcels to partial acquisitions. • A bus turnout would be located at the Warner Avenue. • Change right -of -way requirement from full take to partial take of the following single - family residential parcels: 015- 215 -10 (150 square feet), 015- 215 -11 (50 square feet), 015- 214 -10 (50 square feet), 015- 234 -10 (50 square feet), 015- 233 -11 (50 square feet), 015- 233 -10 (50 square Feet), 015- 232 -11 (50 square feet), and (015- 232 -10 (50 square feet). • Change right -of -way requirement from full take to partial take of Parcel 408- 336 -17 (3,466 square feet). • Land use for the current Project has been changed compared to the 1990 FEIS. The following parcels have been changed from Park to Park with Commercial Option: 015- 194 -38 and 015 -194- 39. • Preceding project phase inclusive of the following parcel which is no longer included in the Phase IV Project right -of -way requirements: 015- 194 -40. It should be noted that the 1990 FEIS and 2013 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Reevaluation (URS Corporation) provided comprehensive noise barriers at all easterly parcel boundaries currently fronting the east side of Bristol Street between Warner Avenue and Saint Andrew Place and comprehensive noise barriers at all westerly parcel boundaries currently fronting the west side of Bristol Street between ANA 305 -194 (PER 02) CSA (AUGUST 2014) 133867 YU