CF 14-1169 City Council 07/20/2019 Vote Given: (13 – 0 – 2)
TRANSPORTATION and PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES REPORTS relative to the impact of the State of California’s adoption of the amended California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) guidelines implementing Senate Bill (SB) 743.
TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPORT
Recommendation for Council action, as initiated by Motion (Bonin – Fuentes for Huizar – O’Farrell):
APPROVE the Department of City Planning (DCP) and Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) SB 743 Comment Letter dated November 6, 2014 (attached to the Council file).
PLANNING AND LAND USE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE REPORT
Recommendation for Council action, pursuant to Motion (Bonin – Fuentes for Huizar – O’Farrell):
INSTRUCT the DCP and the LADOT to begin specific tasks in anticipation of the State’s adoption of the amended CEQA Guidelines implementing SB 743, which will require changes in the way project impacts to the transportation network performance are determined, as follows:
Prepare and submit comments on behalf of the City in response to the Office of Planning and Research’s (OPR) Discussion Draft.
Prepare and present to the Transportation Committee a report on the following items:
A scope of work that the City will be required to undertake to comply with SB 743, including an implementation schedule, with specific goals and milestones, as well as a provision for monitoring and evaluation requirements that will determine if recommended mitigations are effective.
How Vehicle Miles Traveled (VMT) will be calculated in conducting CEQA analysis.
Clarify if levels of service will continue to be used and under what circumstances.
Map the locations within the City where new VMT metric will apply based on the provisions SB 743 and OPR’s draft guidelines.
Provide recommendations on additional outcomes that the City may have an interest in measuring in conducting CEQA analysis in two general categories:
An approach to CEQA analysis for both land use and transportation projects to disclose impacts.
A new approach to project analysis that includes safety, economic development, public health, transit travel time/reliability, and other metrics.
Report on the ways the City’s implementation of SB 743 will be in alignment with the proposed Mobility Element of the General Plan.
Identify any additional resources needed to support the effort, including but not limited to, grant funding opportunities.
Partner with other municipalities, counties and metropolitan planning organizations as necessary to provide both guidance and consistency in the effort.
Fiscal Impact Statement: None submitted by the LADOT or DCP. Neither the City Administrative Officer nor the Chief Legislative Analyst has completed a financial analysis of this report.
Community Impact Statement: Yes
Against: Studio City Neighborhood Council
Refer to CF 14-1169 for detail
