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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning Comm Reports/1992/06/24 (9) City Planning Commission Agenda Item for Meeting of June 24, 1992 Page I 2. Consideration of the Final SUDDlemental Environmental Impact ReDort for the EastLake Sectional Plannim~ Area (SPA) Amendment/Kaiser Pennanente Chula Vista Medical Center. EIR-92-01 (SCll No.: 92031049) A. BACKGROUND: On June 3, 1992 the Planning Commission held a public hearing to receive comments on the EastLake I SPA Amendment/Kaiser Permanente Chula Vista Medical Center Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (Draft SEIR). Prior to that hearing the document was circulated for a thirty (30) day public and State agency review period. During the public review period the document was taken to the Resource Recovery Committee (RCC) for their comments. At the Planning Commission meeting one (I) person, a Representative of Sunbow Development, commented on the Draft EIR. Three (3) agencies, CalTrans, California Integrated Waste Management Board and Otay Water District submitted written comments on the Draft SEIR. The City Engineering Department submitted a comment letter. Three (3) private parties, The Baldwin Company, Rancho del Rey and EastLake Development Company (applicant), commented in writing on the Draft EIR. B. RECOMMENDATION: I. That the Planning Commission adopt the Resolution certifying that the Final EIR has been prepared in accordance with CEQA, the State of California CEQA Guidelines and the Environmental Review Procedures of the City of Chula Vista. 2. That the Planning Commission adopt and recommend to the City Council that they adopt the attached CEQA Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations. C. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) is a supplement to the EastLake I SPA General Development Plan EIR (Chula Vista Number 81-03) and the EastLake I SPA Plan Final EIR (Chula Vista Number 84-1). The project is an Amendment to the EastLake I SPA Plan, a Conditional Use Permit/Precise Plan/Development Agreement for the development of the Kaiser Permanente Chula Vista Medical Center, and other related discretionary actions to implement the project. The EastLake I SPA Plan Amendment/Kaiser Permanente Chula Vista Medical Center proposes to modify the adopted land use mix on 71.8 acres in the southwest portion of c::< - l City Planning Commission Agenda Item for Meeting of June 24, 1992 Page 2 the EastLake I SPA Plan area. Specifically, the project proposes to change the permitted uses on 30.6 acres of the SPA Plan area from commercial/residential mix to medical center; and change 2.0 acres of the SPA Plan area from office/retail to business center/employment use. Precise Plan Guidelines are being proposed to establish design parameters for the amendment area. The medical center, comprising 30.6 acres of the project area, would be implemented in three phases, and construction of the first two phases would occur over a five-year period, ending in 1997. Construction of the third and final phase of the proposal would occur once it is determined that there is sufficient demand for additional facilities within the medical center service area and there is sufficient circulation capacity within the system. At buildout, the medical center would contain 450 hospital beds (820,000 square feet of hospital) and 485,000 square feet of medical and administrative offices. D. CONTENTS OF THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT: The Pinal EIR contains responses to comments received during the public review period, including comments made at the Planning Commission Public Hearing of June 3, 1992 on the Draft SEIR. The Responses to Comment section is located in the front of the Final SEIR following the Addendum. As a result of comments received, some minor revisions have been made which are noted in the Response to Comments section. Actual text changes to the SEIR have not been made. The changes are incorporated into the document through their inclusion in the Response to Comments. Notations throughout the text of the Pinal SEIR identify specific comments and responses that refer to a particular section. Addendum Within the text, prior to the Response to Comments section is an Addendum which was prepared to address minor technical changes in the project description pertaining to "VC- 3" and design modifications to the parking structure which were submitted by the applicant after the public review period. The minor change to the project description to include VC-3 does not change any of the conclusions of the Pinal SEIR. The analysis for this conclusion is discussed in the addendum. Also, as discussed in the addendum, the redesign of the parking structure, while it does reduce the level of impact, does not reduce the impact to below a level of significance per the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It should be noted that a result of the applicant's comments regarding the accuracy of the CADD simulation in the Draft SEIR, the consultant did review the simulations and found that the setbacks of the building were not correct. A revised CADD simulation is included in the Final SEIR. ;,:?':! City Planning Commission Agenda Item for Meeting of June 24, 1992 Page 3 ResDonses to Comments/Proiect DeveloDment A\!reement A Development Agreement for the project will be considered by the City Council for this project. As a result of the proposed Development Agreement, and the subsequent comment letters submitted by EastLake Development Company, several refinements to the Traffic Impact Mitigations have been included in the Response to Comments. These refinements provide additional methods for identifying capacity and providing it prior to construction of Phase III of the Medical Center. The refinements do not change any of the conclusions of the SEIR or relieve the applicant from having to provide adequate capacity prior to Phase III construction. Resource Conservation Commission The Resource Conservation Commission considered this SEIR during the public review period. They had no comments. Minutes of their meeting have been included in your packets for this project as information. Plannin\! Commission Comments The Planning Commission had comments regarding several impact areas such as traffic, water and housing issues in the SEIR. Responses to the Commission's comments have been included in the Response to Comments pages R-31 through R-38. Candidate CEOA Findines and Overridin\! Considerations Since there are impacts which can not be mitigated below a level of significance, a Statement of Overriding Considerations will be included with the Candidate CEQA Findings for Planning Commission and City Council's consideration on the project. E. ATTACHMENTS: 1. Final EIR 2. Mitigation Monitoring Program 3. Candidate CEQA Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations (feir.ka:i) ';:;~3