3.0 Responses to Comments
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mobile home pads rooms in a hotel, motel, rooming house or boarding house occupied by the same tenant for 30 or more consecutive days
Therefore, in consideration of the long-term nature of the affordable housing commitments, the perseveration of the existing land use designations in a portion of the Project Area, and the redevelopment incentives offered by the land use designations in the Project Alternative, the Project Alternative would not directly displace affordable housing units within the Project Area. See Section 5 of the FEIR for a description of the Revised Proposed Alternative Density Bonus Option and MR 1 Housing Displacement. 27-21 The comment claims that the Original DEIR fails to analyze the impact and consistency of the Plan with the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance (RSO), Density Bonus Ordinance (DB Ordinance), or the Homeless Shelter Ordinance. For a discussion of the RSO please see the MR 1 on Displacement. As regards the DB Ordinance the growth anticipated by the Original DEIR assumed a potential future build-out at 4.0 FAR which captures the 3.0 FAR plus a 35% increase. And while the C2 and CM zones within the Plan are intended to be replaced with one of the Urban districts each of the Districts permits, to varying degrees, multi-family residential units. The definition of a Residential Multi-Family in the November 2010 Draft included Single Room Occupancy, residential hotels and rooming houses in its description which was intended to include homeless shelters. For clarification purposes “homeless shelters” will be added to the Residential-Multi-Family definition in the August 2012 Draft. 27-22 The comment suggests that the Plan will displace low-income households and renters and attract higher income residents who will use their vehicles and will be less inclined to use transit as compared to the current population. For the discussion on displacement please see MR1 on Displacement. The comment also notes that census data show 40% of the Project Area population use transit or “other” means to travel to work, rather than driving. See Response to Comment 27-75 of existing and projected VMT and transit participation rates in the Project Area. 27-23 The comment claims that “Minagar & Associates, a professional traffic engineering, transportation planning, and Intelligent Transportation Systems firm, conducted a thorough peer review of the Transportation chapter of the Original DEIR, and concluded that between 6,000 and 7,000 residents in the Project Area would be displaced should CASP be implemented. (Minagar Report, p. 36). The potential displacement of at least 6,000 low income residents will have significant impacts throughout the City and the region, as displaced residents of the Project area will be forced to seek housing elsewhere. This will lead to indirect environmental impacts of the Project, as area residents may no longer have access to transit and may be required to drive to work, as discussed below, and as public services and infrastructure in the receiving communities must be expanded to serve new residents.” For the discussion on displacement please see MR 1 on Displacement. 3-36
Cornfield Arroyo Seco Specific Plan FEIR