3. ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING

OVERVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING

The approximately 2.7-acre Project Site is located at the northeast corner of the intersection of Crenshaw Boulevard and Lomita Boulevard. The Assessor Parcel Numbers (APNs) for the Project Site are 7374- 011-032, 7374-011-034, 7374-011-037, 7374-011-039, 7374-011-041, and 7374-011-036 (which is located within the City of Torrance). The Project Site is currently zoned for Light Manufacturing and General Commercial uses. The Site is “L” shaped with frontages on both Crenshaw and Lomita Boulevards. Inside the “L” shape is a Shell gas station that is located at the northeastern corner of the intersection of Crenshaw and Lomita Boulevards. Figure 3-1 provides an aerial map of the Project Site and surrounding area. Land use and zoning maps are provided in Figures 3-2 and 3-3, respectively.

The Project Site is currently developed with a number of small commercial buildings and support structures that make up an equipment rental yard known as A-1 Coast Rentals. The Site contains a large number of vehicles, equipment, and maintenance areas used in support of the rental of construction equipment. The vehicles include large semi-tractor trailer trucks with flat beds used for delivery of rental equipment, forklifts, scissor lifts, cranes, temporary fencing, portable toilets, and temporary electrical poles. The Project Site also contains a 2,000-gallon above-ground diesel tank, a 500-gallon above-ground gasoline tank, and two high pressured propane tanks, all used to dispense fuel for rental equipment and support vehicles. The equipment maintenance area is used for changing of vehicle oils and lubricants, equipment repairs, and washing. Figures 3-4 and 3-5 provide views of the existing land uses on the Project Site.

The existing buildings on the Project Site do not possess any distinctive architectural characteristics and there is no natural open space on the Project Site. The Project Site is within a raised hill area that descends generally to the southwest stepping down from the parcels north and east of the Site. However, there are no scenic views available from the Project Site, or in the general Project vicinity.

Surrounding Uses

The Project Site is immediately adjacent to a Shell gas station located to the south and west of the Project Site at the corner of Crenshaw and Lomita Boulevards. Other surrounding uses include the following: Conoco Phillips Tank Petroleum Storage to the west across Crenshaw Boulevard; the Torrance Crossroads Retail Center to the southwest; a mix of retail, commercial, and residential uses to the south; a mix of retail, commercial, residential, and church uses to the east; and a mix of retail, commercial, and residential uses to the north. Photographs of the surrounding land uses are provided in Figures 3-6 and 3- 7.

Existing Street System

The principal local network of streets serving the Project Site is Lomita Boulevard and Crenshaw Boulevard.

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Public Transit

Torrance Transit, Metro, and Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) operate several bus lines within the Project area, including Torrance Transit Route 5, Torrance Transit Route 7, Torrance Transit Route 9, Torrance Transit Route 10, Metro Route 232, and LADOT Commuter Express 448.

RELATED PROJECTS

Section 15130 of the State CEQA Guidelines requires that an EIR consider the significant environmental effects of a proposed project as well as the project’s “cumulative impacts.” CEQA defines a cumulative impact as an impact that is created as a result of the combination of the project evaluated in the EIR together with other projects causing related impacts (State CEQA Guidelines Section 15355). As stated in State CEQA Guidelines Section 15130(a)(1), the cumulative impacts discussion in an EIR need not discuss impacts that do not result in part from the project evaluated in the EIR. Cumulative impacts may be analyzed by considering a list of past, present, and probable future projects producing related or cumulative impacts (State CEQA Guidelines Section 15130(b)(1)(A)).

All projects that are proposed (i.e., with pending applications), recently approved, under construction, or reasonably foreseeable that could contribute to a cumulative impact on the local environment when considered in conjunction with the proposed project are included in an EIR. These projects can include, if necessary, projects outside of the control of the lead agency. If a concise list of related projects is not available, cumulative impacts may be analyzed using the regional or area-wide growth projections contained in an adopted or certified general plan or related planning document. The analysis includes both related projects and cumulative impacts (which takes into account ambient growth per the traffic study).

In this Draft EIR, cumulative impact analyses are provided for each environmental issue discussed in Section 4, Environmental Impact Analysis, and can be found in each respective subsection (e.g., Air Quality, Transportation/Traffic, etc.).

The list of related projects is based on research at the cities of Lomita, Los Angeles, Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Estates, and Torrance. Though the buildout years of many of these related projects are uncertain and may be well beyond the buildout year of the Project, and notwithstanding that some may never be approved or developed, they were all considered as part of the traffic study and conservatively assumed to be completed by the Project buildout year, regardless of their actual buildout date.

Table 3-1, Related Projects List, provides the related projects that were considered in each cumulative impact analysis. The locations of the related projects are depicted in Figure 3-8, Related Projects Location Map.

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Table 3-1 Related Projects List

No. Project Name Location/Address Description City of Lomita 1. 25114-16 Narbonne Avenue 25114-16 Narbonne Avenue 11 townhomes and 3,500 sf specialty retail 850 sf Starbucks with drive-thru (replacing 2. Starbucks 1730-1734 Pacific Coast Hwy 6,165 sf retail building) 3. 24516 Narbonne Avenue 24516 Narbonne Avenue 22 townhomes and 3,700 sf commercial 250th and Narbonne Multi-Use SEC of 250th St & Narbonne 4,281 sf warehouse, 20 condominium du, 1,528 4. Development Ave sf office building, and 507 sf retail City of Torrance 5. CUP12-00002 3210 Sepulveda Blvd 130 bed assisted living and skilled nursing 6. CUP12-00007 23104 Hawthorne Blvd 10,023 sf child day care center 4,115 sf auto service building with 4 service 7. CUP14-00005 2540 Sepulveda bays 8. CUP 14-00023 24000 Garnier St 36,865 sf medical office building 161,500 sf Costco warehouse with car wash, 20-position fueling station, and 75,000 sf medical office building (relocation of existing 9. Costco – MOD14-00004 2640 Lomita Blvd 148,000 sf Costco, to be replaced with repurposed existing warehouse; credit for 351,209 sf office/medical office building) 10. CUP15-00031 23550 Hawthorne Blvd 1,500 sf restaurant and 2,000 sf bank building 11. CUP15-00001 24444 Hawthorne Blvd 2,700 sf office and 8 residential units 14-unit residential condos (replacing 4,000 sf 12. CUP15-00009 23625 Arlington Ave retail/office) 2,970 sf commercial/retail building (replacing 13. CUP16-00003 2435 Sepulveda Blvd 712 sf restaurant) SWC of Via Valmonte & 14. CUP16-00004 305-unit multi-family residential development Hawthorne Blvd City of Rolling Hills Estates 114 single-family residences, 338-seat dining, 15. 26311 Palos Verdes Drive East 26311 Palos Verdes Drive East 7,150 sf fitness center, 5 tennis courts, and 100- member country club Notes: du = dwelling unit sf = square feet Source: Linscott, Law & Greenspan Engineers, 2016.

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