75A - PH BRISTOL ST MEMORY LN PROJECT

Home Browse Search

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT ADDENDUM Bristol Street and Memory Lane Intersection Improvements — Project No. 17-6883 d) Result in the loss offorest land or conversion offorest land to non forest use? Refer to Response 3.2(c). Implementation of the proposed Project would not result in greater impacts than previously analyzed in the 1990 FEIS/EIR. Certified 1990 FEIS/EIR Mitigation Measures: No 1990 FEIS/EIR mitigation measures are applicable. Mitigation Measures: No additional mitigation measures are required. e) involve other changes in the existing environment which, dire to their location or nature, could result in conversion of Farmland, to non-agricultural use or conversion offorest land to ear forest use? Refer to Responses 3.2 (a) through 3.2(c). Implementation of the proposed Project would not result in greater impacts than previously analyzed, in the 1990 FEIS/EIR. Certified 1990 FEIS/EIR Mitigation Measures: No 1990 FEIS/EIR mitigation measures are applicable. Mitigation Measures: No additional mitigation measures are required. 3.3 AIR QUALITY This section corresponds with 1990 FEIS/EIR Section IV, Environmental Consequences and Mitigation Measures, Subsection H, Air Quality, and Subsection V, Construction Impacts of the previously approved. Where available, the significance criteria established by the applicable air quality management or air pollution control district may be relied upon to crake the following determinations. Would the project: a) Conflict with or obstruct implementation of the applicable air qualityplan? The proposed Project is consistent with the applicable plans, ordinances and policies establishing measures of effectiveness for the performance of the circulation system as described in the 1990 FEIS/EIR. According to the 1990 FEIS/EIR, the widening of Bristol Street was designated in the Orange County Master Plan, and was recommended in the Bristol Street Corridor Study — Final Report, prepared by Mohle, Grover & Associates, dated 1983.4 It was also recommended in the Arterial Highway Element— Santa Ana Element — Santa Ana Transportation Corridor State II Alternative Analysis, prepared by Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc., dated 1983. The proposed widening is also consistent with the recommendation found in the Intercity Liaison Committee — Five - Year Transportation Study Update to 1990, prepared by Basmaciyan-Darnell, Inc., dated 1985.' Furthermore, the proposed Project would improve traffic operations through the Project condor. Impacts would be similar to those identified in the 1990 FEIS/EIR. The Bristol Street Widening Project is included in SCAG's 2016-2040 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS): A Plan for Mobility, Accessibility, Sustainability and a High Quality of Life (2016 RTP) (RTP ID ORA125).6 The Project is also currently listed in SCAG's financially constrained 2017 Federal Transportation Improvement Program (2017 FTIP) for fiscal year 2016/2017 — 2021/2022. The Project entry in the 2017 FTIP identifies the following scope of work: BRISTOL ST (MEMORY LANE TO 17TH STREET AND 3RD STREET TO ST. ANDREWS PLACE) WIDEN FROM 4 TO 6 LANES; split project ORA150003, ORA150004, ORA150005, ORA150006.7 4 POWER Engineers, Bristol Street Widening PhaselllA—Civic Center Drive to iVashington Avenue Environmental Impact Report Addendum, January 20, 2015. 5 Ibid. 6 Southern California Association of Governments, 2016-2040 Regional Transportation Plan/Sustainable Communities Strategy (RTP/SCS), Transportation System Project List, 2016. 1 Southern California Association of Governments, Final 2017 Federal Transportation Improvement Program, 2016. Draft I November 2017 3-4 Environmental Consequences 75A-33