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8.2.2. Evaluaci´ on de la generaci´ on de calor y la respuesta ´ optica
Less Than Significant Impact. As discussed above, the Project Site is not located within a designated floodplain. Further, the Project Site is not located with a potential inundation area, being located west of the inundation area for the Los Angeles River.18 Additionally, there are no levees or dams in the Project vicinity. Therefore, no impact associated with flooding, including flooding due to the failure of a levee or dam, would occur. No mitigation measures are required and no further analysis of this issue in an EIR is necessary.
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Inundation by seiche, tsunami, or mudflow?
No Impact. A seiche is an oscillation of a body of water in an enclosed or semi‐enclosed basin, such as a reservoir, harbor, lake, or storage tank. A tsunami is a great sea wave, commonly referred to as a tidal wave, produced by a significant disturbance undersea, such as a tectonic displacement of sea floor associated with large, shallow earthquakes. Mudflows occur as a result of downslope movement of soil and/or rock under the influence of gravity.The Project Site is not located within a City‐designated inundation hazard area.19 Relative to tsunami
hazards, the Project Site is located approximately 14 miles inland (northeast) from the Pacific Ocean, and therefore, would not be subject to a tsunami. Furthermore, the Project Site is not located on a City‐ designated tsunami hazard area.20 The Project Site itself is characterized by relatively flat topography,
though relatively steep slopes of the easternmost portion of the Santa Monica Mountains are located just northwest of Broadway Street. While there exists a nominal potential for mudflows in the hillsides northwest of the Project Site, the relatively high amount of urbanization, landscaping, and natural vegetation within these hillside areas would generally limit the potential for large volumes of earth materials to become
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City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning, Parcel Profile Report: 129 W College St. Generated January 16, 2014.
17 Federal Emergency Management Agency, Flood Insurance Rate Map, Map Number 06037C1628F, Effective Date: September 26,
2008. 18 City of Los Angeles General Plan, Safety Element Exhibit G, Inundation & Tsunami Hazard Areas, March 1994. 19 City of Los Angeles General Plan, Safety Element Exhibit G, Inundation & Tsunami Hazard Areas, March 1994. 20 Ibid.
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unstable and form a significant mudflow. Further, intervening structures, vegetation, roadways, and other obstacles would generally limit adverse physical effects to on‐site development if a mudflow were to occur northwest of the Project Site. Overall, therefore, no impacts would occur due to inundation by seiche or tsunamis, and mudflow impacts would be less than significant. As such, further analysis of this topic in an EIR is not recommended and no mitigation measures are required.
X. LAND USE AND PLANNING
Would the project:
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Physically divide an established community?
Less Than Significant Impact. The Project would represent infill development within an established, heavily urbanized but heterogeneous area. The Project Site, located at the extreme southwestern edge of the CASP area, is bordered by a mix of wholesale commercial/light industrial uses, storage, and surface parking. Much of the surrounding area was developed more than 50 years ago with industrial uses and rail facilities, and current land uses in the Project vicinity reflect the Project Site’s location at the western transitional edge of the light industrial and transit corridor between N. Alameda Street/N. Spring Street and the Los Angeles River, and Chinatown to the west. Chinatown’s Central Business District and its residential uses are located west of Broadway, on the west side of the Metro Gold Line right‐of‐way, several blocks from the Project Site. The other closest concentration of residential uses is the William Mead Housing Project, a block east of the Project Site.
Thus, the Project area does not currently represent a cohesive community, a fact reflected in the stated purposes of adopted CASP, one of which is to “Transform an underserved and neglected vehicular‐oriented industrial and public facility area into a cluster of mixed‐use, pedestrian‐oriented and aesthetically pleasing neighborhoods.” The CASP is also generally intended to facilitate evolution of the area from vehicle‐oriented industrial and public facility uses to a mixed‐use community of pedestrian and transit‐oriented uses, and designates the Project Site as Hybrid Industrial, which corresponds to the Urban Center zoning designation.
The Project would develop a currently vacant property with a mix of residential, live‐work, and retail uses under both proposed development options. Furthermore, the Project’s proposed private internal streets would provide mid‐block vehicle and pedestrian passage between N. Spring Street and Rondout Street. The Project’s improved sidewalks, amenities, and ground‐level retail and restaurant uses would enhance the pedestrian experience for patrons of the Metro Gold Line Chinatown Station, activate the area, and provide pedestrian connections from Chinatown and the station to future projects east of the Project Site. Project features such as enhanced sidewalks with landscaped parkways, seating areas for people to congregate, a bicycle lane, bicycle racks, and street furniture would enhance the presently non‐existent pedestrian linkage between Chinatown, the Metro Gold Line Chinatown Station, and the neighborhood surrounding the Project Site. As such, under both development options, the Project would be compatible with and complement existing and proposed uses in the surrounding area and would not be of a density, scale, or height to constitute a physical barrier separating an established community.
Given the mix of uses in the Project vicinity and the infill character of the Project, the Project would not introduce land uses that would affect existing land use relationships to the point of constituting a physical division of the community. Therefore, the Project would not physically divide an established community and a less than significant impact would result. No further analysis of this topic in an EIR is required.
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