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

Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.1 AestheticsBroome Site. Mixed-use, residential, and retail development that would potentially occurwould increase lighting. Old Town Saticoy could also accommodate infill development thatcould incrementally increase sources of lighting and glare in an area already containing lightingsources.General Plan Action 3.23 addresses appropriate design standards as part of the DevelopmentCode that emphasizes pedestrian orientation, integration of land uses, treatment of streetscapesas community living space, and environmentally sensitive building design and operation.Furthermore, the Development Code provides for enhancement of exposure to light and air andincludes setbacks, lot coverage, and parking lot lighting standards to ensure that new structureswould not affect adjacent uses. Adherence to Action 3.23 and existing City lightingrequirements and restrictions would reduce impacts to a less than significant level.Mitigation Measures. No mitigation is required beyond adherence to the City’s lightingstandards.Significance After Mitigation. Impacts would be less than significant withoutmitigation.c. Cumulative Impacts. As discussed in Section 3.0, Environmental Setting, growthforecast under the 2005 General Plan would add an estimated 8,300 dwelling units, as well asabout 1.2 million square feet of retail development, 1.2 million square feet of officedevelopment, 2.2 million square feet of industrial development, and more than 500,000 squarefeet of hotel development citywide. Such development would create a somewhat more urbancharacter in portions of the City, including the Project Area. The 2005 General Plan FEIRidentifies impacts relating to the change in visual character of alteration of views from publicview locations as unavoidably significant and the City Council adopted a Statement ofOverriding Considerations for this cumulative change at the time the 2005 General Plan wasadopted. This cumulative impact has not changed since the adoption of the 2005 General Plan,nor has the Project’s contribution to cumulative visual effects. Because cumulative aestheticimpacts would not be greater than what has already been acknowledged in conjunction with2005 General Plan adoption, they are not significant.4.1-15City of Ventura