NorthLake Specific Plan Project

NorthLake Specific Plan Project

The previously approved Project consists of development of Phase 1, Phase 2, and associated off-site external map improvements in both Phase 1 and Phase 2. Phase 1 includes the entitlements Vesting Tentative Tract Map (“VTTM”) No. 073336, Vesting Tentative Parcel Map (“VTPM”) No. 073335, and Conditional Use Permit (“CUP”) No. RPPL2023004316, comprises development of a 720-acre portion of the Project Site with a total of 2,295 dwelling units, including 288 single-family units on approximately 41 acres, 1,341 multi-family units on approximately 107 acres, 345 senior multi-family units on approximately 49 acres, 315 affordable units and six market-rate live/work units (included within 20 acres of commercial use). Phase 1 also includes commercial uses (22 acres), open space and parks uses (412 acres), roadways (86 acres), a school pad (21 acres), and a fire station pad (1 acre). The remainder of the Project Site, referred to as the Phase 2 area, would be developed with 855 single- family homes, 386 acres of parks, trails, and open space, 23 acres of school uses, and 36 acres of associated roadway and infrastructure improvements. Phase 2 is not included in VTTM 073336 and will require a separate map number. VTPM 073335 requests 21 large lot parcels (40 acres or more) for future lease and finance purposes. Associated off-site external map improvements in both Phase 1 and Phase 2 total 65.13 acres, including remedial grading, drainage features, and road and utility alignments. The Project improvements would consist of the construction of Ridge Route Road at the Project’s main entrance to the south and a secondary access route to the northwest, construction of NorthLake Parkway adjacent to and west of the Phase 2 portion of the Project Site, a 4.64-acre connection of Grasshopper Creek Park, a debris basin, 2.39 acres in trail connections, a 5.1-acre pad for a water tank, 29.79 acres of manufactured slopes, and 11.98 acres of natural open space. In addition, extensions of the existing electrical distribution circuitry would occur along the existing Ridge Route Road to reach the Project, and substation upgrades would occur on Southern California Edison property. In addition to the above improvements, an existing crude oil pipeline easement containing two oil pipelines that traverse the entire north-south length of the Project Site would be relocated to an alignment along the eastern boundary of the proposed development area and within the identified grading footprint. At the February 21, 2018, public hearing, the Regional Planning Commission requested that the Applicant include an affordable housing component in the Project. Based on this request, the Applicant made minor revisions to the Project analyzed in the SEIR to include an affordable component (315 affordable units). Project entitlements include: (1) NorthLake Specific Plan No. 87-172, (2) Vesting Tentative Parcel Map No. 073335, (3) Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 073336, and (4) Conditional Use Permit No. 2015-00019 to authorize the Northlake Specific Plan site plan review, affordable set-aside housing, affordable senior set-aside housing, mixed-use and live-work development, on-site and off-site grading exceeding 100,000 cubic yards of cut/fill material, walls and fences exceeding six feet in height, and the construction of two water tanks with associated grading and infrastructure).

Unincorporated area

Los Angeles

Unincorporated

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Education, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marin Region 7 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region 4 (RWQCB), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Colorado River Board, Department of General Services (DGS), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 15, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 16, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 22, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 7, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Divison of Financial Assistance, University of California Natural Reserve System (UCNRS)

Residential (Units 3150, Acres 342), Commercial (Sq. Ft. 38700, Acres 20, Employees 1100), Educational (School Site (43.5 acres)), Recreational (Rec/Park (167 acres); Open Space (632.5 acres)), Other (1.4-acre pad for future fire station)

Specific Plan, Site Plan, Use Permit, VTTM

Biological Resources, Transportation, Wildfire, Revised Alternatives Analysis