UBLIC HEARING: Director of Development ... - City of Glendale

1. INTRODUCTION
This document is an Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Report for the San
Fernando Road Corridor Redevelopment Plan (hereafter, Redevelopment Plan) which was
certified on November 17, 1992 (Resolution No. 480) by the Glendale Redevelopment Agency.
The Final Environmental Impact Report (hereafter, Program EIR) is comprised of an Initial
Study, which is appended to the Draft EIR; the Draft EIR with technical appendices dated July
13, 1992; and the Final EIR volwne dated November 12, 1992. A program EIR is defmed in
Section 15168(a) of the CEQA Guidelines as an EIR which may be prepared on a series of
actions which are related to one another and can be characterized as one large project. Under
Section 15180(b) of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, "An EIR on
a redevelopment plan is to be treated as a program EIR. .. ".
The subject of this Addendum is a site specific project, the DreamWorks Animation
Campus, proposed by DreamWorks SKG on a site located within the San Fernando Road
Corridor Redevelopment Area. This document is an Addendum to the Program EIR, responsive
to Section 15168(c) of the CEQA Guidelines addressing program EIRs, which states,
"...Subsequent activities in the program must be examined in the light of the program EIR to
determine whether an additional environmental document must be prepared." Section 15168(c)4
of the CEQA Guidelines states further that, "Where subsequent activities involve site specific
operations, the agency should use a written checklist or similar device to document the
evaluation of the site and the activity to detennine whether the environmental effects of the
operations were covered in the program EIR. "
The DreamWorks Animation Campus project consists of a site specific project located
within the Redevelopment Area. As such, it is a subsequent activity to the Redevelopment
program. An addendum is a more comprehensive form of documentation than a written
checklist, and has been selected to address the potential environmental consequences of the
project in the context of those attributable to the Redevelopment Plan, as documented in the
EIR. Pursuant to Sections 15162(a) and 15164(e) of the CEQA Guidelines, preparation of a
subsequent EIR was determined not to be appropriate. As evidenced by the analyses and
conclusions presented in this Addendum, the proposed site specific project does not represent
substantial change in the underlying Redevelopment Plan assumptions regarding the project site
made in the EIR, and neither such differences between the project and the Redevelopment Plan
as will exist, nor new information not available at the time the EIR was prepared, will involve
Planning ConsultantS Research
Glendale Redevelopment Agency
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DreamWorks Animation Campus Addendwn EIR
June 1996