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

Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.9 Land Use and PlanningThe development and redevelopment of the Project Area is intended to improve use of anunderutilized portion of the City (and the County) where infrastructure and utilities currentlyexist. The adoption of the Project is also intended to streamline future development byproviding more guidance and environmental information for future projects. Although theProejct are not budgeting documents, several policies and actions provide general guidance forthe funding of public services and facilities. Similarly, although the Community Plan does notaddress specific procedural requirements for permitting development, it includes a range ofpolicies and actions intended to foster economic vitality. The Projiect could be found to beconsistent with the requirements of RCPG policies 3.5, 3.9, and 3.10.Growth Management Policies Related to the RCPG Goal to Improve the Regional Quality of Life.The growth management goals to attain mobility and clean air goals and to develop urbanforms that enhance quality of life, that accommodate a diversity of life styles, that preserve openspace and natural resources, and that are aesthetically pleasing and preserve the character ofcommunities enhance the regional strategic goal of maintaining the regional quality of life.3.12 Encourage existing or proposed local jurisdictions’ programs aimed at designingland uses which encourage the use of transit and thus reduce the need forroadway expansion, reduce the number of auto trips and vehicle miles traveled,and create opportunities for residents to walk and bike.3.13 Encourage local jurisdictions’ plans that maximize the use of existing urbanizedareas accessible to transit through infill and development.3.14 Support local plans to increase density of future development located at strategicpoints along the regional commuter rail, transit systems, and activity centers.3.15 Support local jurisdictions’ strategies to establish mixed-use clusters and othertransit-oriented developments around transit stations and along transitcorridors.The Project includes, among its central objectives, the creation of mixed use, walkable districtsproximate to existing and proposed transit options. It also provides actions to enhance naturalresources such as Brown Barranca. The Project could therefore be found to be consistent withRCPG policies 3.12, 3.13, 3.14 and 3.15.3.22 Discourage development, or encourage the use of special design requirements, inareas with steep slopes, high fire, flood, and seismic hazards.3.23 Encourage mitigation measures that reduce noise in certain locations, measuresaimed at preservation of biological and ecological resources, measures that wouldreduce exposure to seismic hazards, minimize earthquake damage, and to developemergency response and recovery plans.As discussed in Section 4.6, Geology, the Project Area contains no steep slopes and impacts fromseismic hazards are reduced to less than significant levels with adherence to the CaliforniaBuilding Code, 2005 General Plan policies, and Community Plan policies. As described inSection 4.13, Public Services, fire hazards are addressed mainly through the application of the4.9-10City of Ventura