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Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.3 Air Qualityon-site. The site superintendent/supervisor shall use his/her discretion in conjunctionwith the APCD in determining when winds are excessive.• Adjacent streets and roads shall be swept at least once per day, preferably at the endof the day, if visible soil material is carried over to adjacent streets and roads.• Personnel involved in grading operations, including contractors and subcontractors,should be advised to wear respiratory protection in accordance with CaliforniaDivision of Occupational Safety and Health regulations.The General Plan FEIR identified mitigation that requires individual construction contractors toimplement the construction mitigation measures included in the most recent version of theVentura County APCD’s Ventura County Air Quality Assessment Guidelines.Compliance with the above mentioned techniques and the individual environmental reviews ofdevelopment projects within the Project Area would help to reduce impacts. Constructionrelated impacts from implementation of the Project are less than significant.Mitigation Measures. Mitigation is not required.Significance after Mitigation. Impacts would be less than significant without mitigation.Impact AQ-4Increased traffic congestion Project Area growth wouldpotentially increase carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations atcongested intersections. However, because of the low ambientCO concentrations and anticipated reduction in emissionsassociated with less polluting vehicles, exceedance of state andfederal CO standards is not expected. Impacts relating to CO“hotspots” are therefore considered Class III, less thansignificant.All of Ventura County is in attainment of state and federal CO standards and has been forseveral years. At the El Rio monitoring station, the maximum 8-hour CO level recorded from2002-2004 is 3.5 parts per million (ppm), less than half of the 9 ppm state and federal 8-hourstandard. Updated CO data (2005-2007) does not exist within Ventura County. As such, theclosest monitoring station (Goleta-Fairview) recorded maximum CO levels from 0.80 to 1.10ppm from 2005-2007. In addition, as shown on Figure 4.3-1, countywide CO emissions areprojected to fall by about 38% by 2020, largely due to the use of cleaner operating vehicles.Although CO is not expected to be a major air quality concern in Ventura County over theplanning horizon, elevated CO levels can occur at or near intersections that experience severetraffic congestion. A project’s localized air quality impact is considered significant if theadditional CO emissions resulting from the project create a “hot spot” where the 1-hour or 8-hour standard is exceeded. This typically occurs at severely congested intersections. TheVentura County APCD's Air Quality Assessment Guidelines indicate that screening for possibleelevated CO levels should be conducted for severely congested intersections experiencing levelof service (LOS) E or F with project traffic where a significant project traffic impact may occur.4.3-13City of Ventura
Saticoy & Wells Community Plan and Code EIRSection 4.3 Air QualityFigure 4.3-1 Countywide Average CO Emissions300CO Emissions (tons/day)2502001501005002005 2010 2015 2020YearSource: California Air Resources Board, 2008 Almanac.As discussed in Section 4.15, Transportation and Circulation, traffic growth accommodated underthe Project would potentially result in LOS F at one Planning Area intersection. However,mitigation has been incorporated to reduce impacts to LOS D. Additionally, implementation ofthe Project would improve circulation within the Project Area through its Policies and Actions.Finally, as noted above, the Ventura County region does not experience any CO “hot spots” andCO concentrations are expected to drop substantially over the planning period as cleanertechnologies become available. As such, it is not anticipated that violations of state or federalstandards would occur.Mitigation Measures. Mitigation is not required.Significance after Mitigation. Impacts would be less than significant without mitigation.c. Cumulative Impacts. The Ventura County Air Basin is currently a non-attainmentarea for both the federal and state standards for ozone and the state standards for PM 10 . Whenpopulation growth exceeds the forecasts upon which the AQMP is based, emission inventoriescould be surpassed, which could affect attainment of standards as a result of past and ongoingurban and rural development that has caused emissions to exceed the air basin’s capacity fordispersal and removal of the air pollutants. However, as indicated in AQ-1, the 2005 GeneralPlan development forecasts (2025) do not exceed the AQMP forecasts for the City, and wouldtherefore not result in delayed attainment of air quality standards. Cumulative impacts wouldtherefore be less than significant and the Project’s contribution to cumulative air quality impactswould not be cumulatively considerable.4.3-14City of Ventura
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