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102 Prior EIR Determination Effect Peculiar to Project Site? New Significant Effect? New Significant Off-Site, Cumulative Impact? New Information, More Severe Adverse Impact? DTPP EIR DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments SEIR Focused GPU EIR XI. LAND USE AND PLANNING – Would the project: a) Physically divide an established community? LTS LTS LTS No No No No b) Be incompatible with existing land use in the vicinity?26 LTS Not Addressed Not Addressed No No No No c) Cause a significant environmental impact due to a conflict with any land use plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect? LTS LTS LTS No No No No Documentation: Commercial Component: a The DTPP program EIR (p. 4-16) concluded that implementation of the DTPP would reinforce, with no substantial change in, the physical arrangement of the city and established community-wide land use patterns. The EIR (p. 4-16) also concluded that the DTPP land use provisions and development standards would result in beneficial land use effects. The Commercial Component complies with all applicable DTPP standards relevant to community arrangement and land use compatibility and would contribute to the beneficial land use effects in the Downtown area. The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR (pp. 4-10 through 4-12) concurred with the DTPP EIR conclusion and found the Plan-Wide Amendments would increase connectivity in and around Downtown and would not physically divide an established community. For these reasons, the impacts of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments were less than significant. The Commercial component implements the DTPP as it intends to enhance the street grid in this portion of the DTPP area by abandoning California Street between Winklebleck Street and James Avenue and extending Franklin Street beyond Sequoia Station, thereby increasing the coherence of the DTPP area’s circulation pattern in accordance with the DTPP policies relating to removal of specified open spaces and creation of Complete Streets. The proposed realigned street grid would create better connections to the Transit Center, allow for wider sidewalks and improved pedestrian sight angles, and provide a new four-way stopped-controlled intersection. As a result, the land use compatibility impacts of this Commercial Component are less than significant and are not anticipated beyond those previously identified and analyzed in the DTPP program EIR, and the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR. Also see item XIII(a), Population and Housing, below. This Commercial Component would be consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. In addition, as explained in the SEIR (p. 4-11): “Under CEQA, physical division of an established community generally applies to projects, such as highway construction, that would create a barrier that would physically sever two or more connected parts of a community”; the proposed Commercial Component would not create a barrier or obstacle to circulation but instead would enhance circulation, including pedestrian and bicycle circulation. Therefore, the Commercial Component would have a less than significant impact. This Commercial Component would be consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. b. This section is no longer in Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines. c. The DTPP Final EIR found less-than-significant impacts related to conflicts with any land use plans, policies, or regulations adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect. The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments SEIR found that because the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments are, by definition, an amendment of the DTPP and the General Plan, no conflicts with these local plans would occur and the impacts were less than significant. 26 This is no longer in Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines. ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 102 of 148