2016-012 - California Environmental Quality Act

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Statement of Facts and Findings Mitigation Measure NOI-3: Prior to issuance of any Grading Permit, the City Engineer and the Building Safety Manager shall cent= that the Grading Plan, Building Plans, and specifications stipulate that, the construction contractor shall install a temporary sound barrier, such as plywood structures or flexible sound control curtains, of at least eight feet in height along the project site's property line, adjacent to the Candlewood Suites Hotel property to reduce construction noise. Barriers that obstruct the direct fine -of -sight between the construction area and the receptor would provide approximately 5 dBA reduction in noise levels. Mitigation Measure NOI -4: Prior to issuance of any Grading Permit, the City Engineer and the Building Safety Manager shall confirm that the Grading Plan, Building Plans, and specifications stipulate that construction activities associated with the proposed project shall: 1) be scheduled to avoid operating several pieces of heavy diesel - powered equipment simultaneously, which causes high noise levels; 2) utilize hydraulically or electrically powered impact tools to avoid noise associated with compressed air exhaust from pneumatically powered tools; and 3) if use of pneumatic tools is unavoidable, an exhaust muffler on the compressed air exhaust shall be used and external jackets on the tools themselves shall be used. Mitigation Measure NOI -5: Prior to issuance of a building permit, the Proj act Applicant shall submit a Construction Management Plan for review and approval by the City of Santa Ana Planning Division, The Construction Management Plan shall, at a minimum, indicate the equipment and vehicle staging areas, stockpiling of materials, fencing (i.e., temporary fencing with opaque material), and construction haul route(s). 7.0 Environmental Effects that Remain Significant and Unavoidable after Mitigation The City of Santa Ana, having reviewed and considered the information contained in the Final EIR, Technical Appendices, and the administrative record, finds, pursuant to California Public Resources Code 21081 (a)(3) and CEQA Guidelines 15091 (a)(3), that specific economic, legal, social, technological, or other considerations, make infeasible the mitigation measures identified in the EIR and, therefore, the project would cause significant unavoidable impact in relation to operational and cumulative air quality and operational and cruulative traffic. Air Quality A. Pacts Implementation of the Heritage Mixed Use Projectt would result in long -tern regional emissions of criteria air pollutants. The majority of the emissions that would be generated by operation of the project are from vehicular trips, mobile sources, and onsito equipment /facilities. Implementation of Mitigation Measures AQ -7 through AQ -13 would reduce the project's operational emissions of criteria pollutants by increasing the energy efficiency of the proposed buildings to five percent beyond that required by 2013 Title 24 standards, equipping three percent of parking spaces with charging stations, requiring the use of low VOC products, provision of outlets for landscaping and requiring 10 percent of landscaphlg be completed electrically, and ire r1whge MI&ee Use Project 35 ESA 1140730 Statement of Facts and Findinge September 2015