Saticoy & Wells Community Plan & Development ... - City Of Ventura

Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.9 Land Use and Planningb. Project Impacts and Mitigation Measures. A discussion of the Project’s land useeffects follows.Impact LU-1 The proposed Project implements policies and actions of the2005 General Plan and carries out the vision of the General Planfor the Wells-Saticoy communities. The Project would notconflict with other local regulatory planning documents. This isa Class III, less than significant impact.Both the Saticoy and Wells areas are designated in the General Plan as “PlanningCommunities,” places where distinct communities exist or are appropriate. Descriptions of theSaticoy and Wells areas as identified by the 2005 General Plan “Our Well Planned and DesignedCommunity” section are as follows:Wells. This area includes the Wells Road corridor. Brown Barranca runs through thenortherly portion of this area and includes several large parcels of agricultural land. The WellsRoad corridor is a mix of older industrial uses and newer sub-urban commercial and residentialdevelopment. Wells Road should be returned to the neighborhoods it serves, so that newdevelopment can emulate the country charm that existed prior to it’s widening. Traffic calmingin appropriate locations would encourage neighborhood connectivity, and end the currenttrend toward walls and buildings that turn their back to the street. This would also encourageredevelopment of the old neighborhood centers.Saticoy. This area includes the Telephone/Cachuma and Saticoy neighborhood centersand the Saticoy district. Developed originally as a rural town in the late 1800s, Saticoy has arange of transect characteristics: from the Santa Clara river and the rural eastern edge, to itsneighborhood centers, and a mix of housing types at various intensities. Its major civic uses arethe Fritz Huntsinger Youth Sports Complex, Saticoy Regional Golf Course and the Saticoyneighborhood park. Saticoy is further described as a Neighborhood Center, where housingalongside commercial is specifically encouraged.The Saticoy area is described as a “planning district,” as follows:A mix of homes, older industrial and agricultural operations, and the planned site for theCounty maintenance yard. The Saticoy Village Specific Plan governs a small portion ofthis area. A larger effort should ensure Saticoy’s seamless connection with adjacentareas, including a greenspace and circulation plan.Development facilitated by the Project would add additional residential and commercial landuses to the Project Area. As indicated in Table 2-2 of Section 2.0, Project Description,development facilitated by the Project could add 1,833 dwelling units and 270,625 square feet(sf) of additional commercial land uses. Allowable residential units within the Project Areawould be within the growth forecasts of the General Plan (2025) of 1,990 dwelling units.Therefore, the Project would not induce substantial population growth that was unforeseen inthe 2005 General Plan.The Project is consistent with the intent of the 2005 General Plan to maximize development inareas of the City where infill is possible, prioritizing infill development. As such, the 20054.9-4City of Ventura