2016-019 - California Environmental Quality Act

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Mater Dei High School "° Patldng Structure and School Expansion Project Environmental Impact Report and fire lane easement /public alley on the east side of the proposed structure. During the afternoon dismissal, all students exiting the parking structure would be require to exit via the main driveway at the new Monarch Way extension at St. Andrew Place. With implementation of the parking structure, the project also indudes the following circulation improvements, which would be the responsibility of the Project Applicant: • Anew traffic signal and crosswalk at the intersection of St. Andrew Place and Bristol Street; • A dedicated right -turn lane along westbound St. Andrew Place at Bristol Street; and • Optimized left turn signal timing and splits at the Edinger Street /Monarch Way intersection to maximize efficiency for envy onto the campus. INTERIM SURFACE PARKING SCENARIO The Project Applicant may utilize a portion of the parking structure site as surface parking as an interim use until construction of the parking structure begins. This would allow for the provision of additional parking to meet the needs of the campus as completion of the property acquisition and funding process occurs. Potential surface parking areas would be fenced, paved, and illuminated and would likely occur as an extension of the existing on- campus surface parking lot along the eastern boundary of the campus. Given the uncertain tinning and sequencing associated with the property acquisition process, this analysis- conservatively assumes that the interim surface parking would occur over all 19 residential lots associated with the parking structure site, unless otherwise specified in the analysis. Under this scenario, all of the project's proposed circulation system improvements would be constructed prior to opening of the surface parking lot. The Interim Surface Parking Scenario would not result in an increased student enrollment capacity, as it would not include facilities that would directly generate student growth. Rather, this interim parking would accommodate existing and planned needs tinder the 1999 Master Plan for Mater Dei F-ligh School for daily operations and special events. CLASSROOM BUILDING The two -story classroom building would be located within the interior of the existing campus, to the west and south of classroom buildings 100 and 600 and to the north of the swimming pool. The proposed classroom building would replace Buildings 300 and 500, resulting in the replacement of 21,240 square feet of existing classroom space with 30,820 square feet of new classroom space; refer to Table 1, .Probos� ed Caly ar. The new building would include 32 classrooms with a maximum height of 44 feet. This architecture and design of the new classroom building would emulate the existing two - story Academic Services Complex located at the corner of Edinger Avenue and Bristol Street, which features stucco and concrete block construction. As noted above, the proposed improvements associated with the project would increase the size of the campus from 21 acres to 25 acres, and would also increase maximum student enrollment from 2,200 students to 2,500 students. Statement of Facts and Findings 4 June 2015