75B - PH - RESO FOR EIR WARNER AVE WIDEN

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Resolution to adopt Final EIR for Warner Avenue Improvements Main Street to Grand Avenue September 1, 2015 Page 2 The project is consistent with the designation of Warner Avenue as a major arterial in the City's adopted General Plan Circulation Element and in Orange County's Master Plan of Arterial Highways. It is also supported by the updated draft Circulation Element, which will serve as the basis for the new General Plan Circulation Element to be adopted early 2015. The environmental and engineering effort for the Warner improvements originated as a mitigation measure for the Tustin Legacy project, which involves the redevelopment of the former Tustin Marine Corps Air Station as a mixed -use commercial, residential, and industrial project, As a mitigation measure, the City of Tustin agreed to partially fund the Improvements on Warner Avenue between Main Street and Grand Avenue, Approval of this item supports the City's efforts to meet Goal #6 Community Facilities & infrastructure, Objective #1 (establish and maintain a Community Investment Plan for all City assets), Strategy S (maintain existing streets and associated assets in a state of good repair) and Strategy G (develop and implement the City's Capital Improvement Program in coordination with the Community Investment and Deferred Maintenance Plan), gNYl00NMENTA6 IMPA The FEIR addresses the environmental effects associated with the implementation of the proposed Warner Avenue Improvements and Widening Project from Main Street to Grand Avenue, The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires that local government agencies, prior to taking action on projects over which they have discretionary approval authority, consider the environmental consequences to support informed decision making. The CEQA Guidelines (Section 1 5'126Iaj) state that an EIR must address "a range of reasonable alternatives to the project, or to the location of the project, which could feasibly attain the basic objectives of the project, but would avoid or substantially lessen any of the significant effects of the project and evaluate the comparative merits of the alternatives," The alternatives considered for this project were based, in part, on their potential ability to reduce or eliminate the impacts determined to be significant and unavoidable, even after implementation of all feasible mitigation measures, Project Alternatives Considered: • No Project • 100' Widening Alternative • 120' North Widening Alternative • 120' Center Widening Alternative • 120' South Widening Alternative • Revised Construction Alternative • 110' North Widening Alternative (proposed projeoo • 110' Center Widening Alternative • 110' South Widening Alternative Eleven environmental topics were identified as potentially significant and are fully analyzed in this FEIR, • Air Quality • Land Use and Planning • Cultural Resources • Noise • Geology and Solis • Population and Housing • Greenhouse Gas Emissions • Transportation and Traffic • Hazards and Hazardous Materials • Utilities and Service Systems • Hydrology and Water Quality 75B -2