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City of Los Angeles Bicycle Plan First Year of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy and the Figueroa Streetscape Project Environmental Impact Report Scoping Meeting. July 2012. Agenda Purpose of the Scoping Meeting Overview of Projects Environmental Review Process Public Comment.

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July 2012

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  1. City of Los Angeles Bicycle Plan First Year of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy and the Figueroa Streetscape ProjectEnvironmental Impact Report Scoping Meeting July 2012

  2. Agenda • Purpose of the Scoping Meeting • Overview of Projects • Environmental Review Process • Public Comment

  3. Purpose of Today’s Meeting • Generally describe the proposed projects & Environmental Review Process • Gather Information from Community including any concerns • Discuss Environmental Issues to be Evaluated in the EIR with Focus on Project Impacts

  4. Introduction • Lead Agency: City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning (DCP) in coordination with LADOT • Three scoping meetings scheduled – July 10, 12, and 18 and a webinar on July 17 • https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/416703110 • An Initial Study has been prepared by the City; issues preliminarily identified to be discussed: • Land Use Compatibility • Traffic & Circulation • Air Quality • Noise

  5. Proposed Project’s Environmental Case Identification • Case Identification to follow the project throughout the adoption process, Environmental Case Number: • ENV-2012-1470-EIR • http://planning.lacity.org/cts_internet/

  6. Proposed Projects • The proposed projects would consist of the following: • First Year of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy (approximately 40 miles of bicycle lanes) • Figueroa Corridor Streetscape Project

  7. First Year of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy • Purpose of the City of Los Angeles 2010 Bicycle Plan is to increase, improve, and enhance bicycling in the City as a safe, healthy, and enjoyable means of transportation and recreation. • Bicycle Plan established the Five-Year Implementation Strategy to design, analyze and build 1,227 miles in five-year increments within the next 35 years.

  8. First Year of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy • Proposed project would include implementation of approximately 40 miles of new bicycle lanes striped along existing City streets. It would include the first year priority package of the First Five-Year Implementation Strategy. • Installation of the bicycle lanes is anticipated to take less than 12 months & would begin in 2013.

  9. Bicycle Plan

  10. Existing Bikeways as of June 2012

  11. Existing Bikeways with the EIR Package (Proposed Project)

  12. Figueroa Corridor Streetscape Project • Project includes development of separated bicycle lanes along 3-mile stretch of Figueroa Street though Downtown & South Los Angeles from 7th Street to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Vehicular travel lanes would be reduced where necessary. • Proposed project would also include streetscape improvements (pedestrian-scale street lighting, street trees & planting areas, repaired sidewalk paving, enhanced crosswalk treatments, transit furniture, & public art).

  13. Figueroa Corridor Streetscape Project

  14. CEQA & Scoping • Disclosure is Main Purpose of CEQA • Allows for Public Participation • Helps Determine Scope of Environmental Analysis

  15. Environmental Impact Report (EIR) • Evaluate Existing Conditions • Determine Evaluation Criteria • Compare Project Impacts to Evaluation Criteria • Identify Mitigation Measures for Significant Impacts • Evaluate Effectiveness of Mitigation Measures • Identify Unavoidable Effects • Evaluate Alternatives • Evaluate Cumulative Impacts

  16. EIR Process Notice of Preparation & Scoping Meetings We Are Here Prepare Draft EIR Notice of Availability/Notice of Completion 45-Day Public Review Period/Community Meetings Prepare Responses to Comments/Final EIR City of Los Angeles Certifies the Final EIR Notice of Determination

  17. PrimaryEnvironmentalIssues

  18. LandUse • Land Use Compatibility (loss of travel and/or parking lanes) • Applicable Land Use Plans & Policies

  19. Traffic& Congestion • Loss of travel lanes • Intersection Operations • Local Roadway Operations

  20. Air Quality • Construction & Operational Impacts on sensitive receptors

  21. Noise • Construction -Related • Operational Impacts (shifting of traffic along Figueroa)

  22. Alternatives • Required Alternative • No Project • To be Selected based on reduction of any Identified Significant Physical Impacts • Use of parking Lanes instead of travel lanes in some cases • Potential alternate treatment or routes in some cases

  23. Mitigation, Monitoring & Reporting Program (MMRP) • Timing/Phasing of Mitigation • Enforcement /Monitoring Agency • Compliance Action

  24. Opportunities ForPublic Comment • Written & Oral Comments Accepted: Today • 30-Day NOP Public Comment Period: June 28, 2012 through July 30, 2012 • Written Comments on the EIR Scope Must Be Submitted by: July 30, 2012 • Draft EIR Anticipated to be Circulated for Public Review: EarlyFall 2012 • 45-Day Draft EIR Public Comment Period • Final EIR: Late 2012/early 2013

  25. Send Comments to: Attn: David Somers 200 N. Spring Street, Room 667, Los Angeles, CA 90012 Phone: (213) 978-3307 Fax: (213) 978-1477 E-Mail: david.somers@lacity.org

  26. Public Comments

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