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DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM UPDATE 2003

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.   INTRODUCTION

1.1. EIR Purpose and Intended Use
1.2. Program EIR Approach and Assumptions
1.3. EIR Scope—Significant Issues and Concerns
1.4. “Significant Impacts” and Other key EIR
      Terminology
1.5. Report Organization and Content
1.6. Fiscal Impacts

2.   SUMMARY

2.1   Proposed Project
2.2   Environmental Issues
2.3   Summary of Significant Impacts and Mitigation
       Measure
2.4   Summary of Project Relationships to Adopted
       Plans
2.5   Summary of Alternatives
2.6   Mitigation Implementation

3.     PROJECT DESCRIPTION

3.1   Project Location
3.2   Project Background
3.3   Basic Project Objectives
3.4   Overview of Project    Components
3.5   Component
       1:   Downtown Design Plan Recommendations
3.6   Component
      
2:   Proposed Amendments to the 1993
             Dow
ntown Specific Plan
3.7   Component
       3:   Proposed Amendments to the City of
             Sunnyvale General Plan
3.8   Component
     
 4:   Proposed Zoning Amendments
3.9   Component
       5:   Proposed Amendments to the Downtown
             Redevelopment Plan
3.10  Corresponding Changes in Downtown
        Development Capacity
3.11  Project Scheduling and Environmental
        Assessment Time Frame
3.12 Required Project Documentation and Approvals
3.13   Intended Uses of the Program EIR

4.     LAND USE

4.1   Setting
4.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
4.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

5.     AESTHETICS

5.1   Setting
5.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
5.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

6.     POPULATION, HOUSING, AND EMPLOYMENT

6.1    Setting
6.2    Pertinent Goals and Policies
6.3    Impacts and Mitigation Measures

7.     TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING (7.1)

7.1    Setting

        TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING (7.2 & 7.3)

7.2    Pertinent Plans and Policies
7.3    Impacts and Mitigation Measures

8.  PUBLIC SERVICES AND UTILITIES

8.1   Water
8.2   Sewer
8.3   Police
8.4   Fire Protection and Emergency Medical Service
8.5   Schools
8.6   Parks and Recreation
8.7   Solid Waste and Recycling

9.     NOISE

9.1   Setting
9.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
9.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

10.   AIR QUALITY

10.1  Setting
10.2  Pertinent Plans and Policies
10.3  Impacts and Mitigation Measures

11.   DRAINAGE AND WATER QUALITY

11.1   Setting
11.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
11.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

12.   SOILS AND GEOLOGY

12.1  Setting
12.2  Pertinent Plans and Policies
12.3  Impacts and Mitigation Measures

 13.  HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

13.1   Setting
13.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
13.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

14.   BIOLOGICAL RESOURCES

14.1   Setting
14.2   Pertinent Plans and Policies
14.3   Impacts and Mitigation Measures

15.  CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCES

15.1  Setting
15.2  Pertinent Plans and Policies
15.3  Impacts and Mitigation Measures

16.  PROJECT CONSISTENCY WITH LOCAL AND REGIONAL PLANS

16.1  Local Plans
16.2  Regional Plans
 

17.  CEQA-REQUIRED ASSESSMENT CONCLUSIONS

17.1  Growth-Inducting Impacts
17.2  Unavoidable Significant Adverse Impacts
17.3  Irreversible Environment Changes
17.4  Cumulative Impacts
17.5  Effects Found Not to Be Significant

 18.  ALTERNATIVES TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT

18.1  Alternative 1: No Project (Existing Conditions/1993 Specific Plan)
18.2  Alternative 2: Reduced Development and Height
18.3  Alternative 3: Modified Land Uses
18.4  Alternative 4: Multi-Use Alternative
18.5  Alternative 5: Modified Redevelopment Plan Activities (Modified Funding Allocation)
18.6  Alternative 6: Modified Improvement Program Boundaries/Redevelopment Plan Boundaries
18.7 Conclusions

19.  MITIGATION MONITORING

19.1  Background
19.2  Monitoring Checklist

20. ORGANIZATIONS AND PERSONS CONTACTED

20.1  City of Sunnyvale
20.2   Others

21.  APPENDICES

21.1   Program EIR Authority
21.2   Notice of Preparation and Initial Study
21.3   Supplemental Air Quality Information
21.4   CEQA Standards for EIR Adequacy
21.5   CEQA Definition of “Mitigation”
21.6    EIR Consultant Team