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
Downtown 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