HomeMy WebLinkAbout2005-05-24 - RESOLUTIONS - RIVERPARK EIR (2)Resolution No. 05-56
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has agreed to contribute a traffic -signal mitigation fee in the
amount of $250,000 to the City to be used to improve traffic flow
and minimize traffic congestion along the corridors impacted by
project -related traffic, through traffic signal retiming and related
infrastructure improvements.
2. Given the primarily residential nature of the Riverpark uses, the
project will not generate a substantial number of heavy truck or
other heavy -vehicle traffic trips. Neither the location, nor the
physical characteristics of the project site, nor the project's design
creates more traffic trips or more traffic congestion than would be
created if the project were proposed in a different
location. Moreover, through the project's contribution to the
Bridge and Thoroughfare District, dedication of rights-of-way for
Newhall Ranch Road and Santa Clarita Parkway, and traffic signal
mitigation fee, many of these impacts and those of other projects
will, over time, be reduced by construction of additional roadway
improvements.
(ii) Air Qualit : Using the South Coast Air Quality Management District's
emissions thresholds, the project EIR concluded that the project would
generate significant and unavoidable air quality impacts during construction
and operation, as well as cumulative impacts, primarily from mobile
sources. These impacts, remaining after project revisions and imposition of
all feasible mitigation measures, are outweighed by the project's benefits,
listed above.
1. As described in Section 1, above, the project has been
revised. The revisions that primarily affect the project's air quality
impacts are the reduction in residential units from 1,183 to 1,089,
and the reduction in the commercial area from 3 acres to one acre
and the maximum commercial square footage from 40,000 to
16,000 square feet. These reductions will reduce the density of
development and the number of trips generated by the project and,
concomitantly, the mobile source emissions.
2. In addition, certain prohibitions, which have been incorporated as
mitigation measures, will substantially reduce project criteria and
any potential toxic emissions. For example, wood -burning
fireplaces and stoves are prohibited in all residential units. Use of
wood in fireplaces and wood-buming stoves will be prohibited
through project CC&Rs, and the City of Santa Clarita will not
issue permits for wood -burning stoves. Any dry cleaner proposing
to locate on site must conduct cleaning operations at an off-site
previously South Coast Air Quality Management District
(SCAQMD)-permitted location. No on-site dry cleaning