City of Montebello General Plan Update and Downtown Montebello Specific Plan

City of Montebello General Plan Update and Downtown Montebello Specific Plan

The proposed Project includes a comprehensive update of the City’s General Plan. The City’s General Plan currently has twelve elements: Circulation, Conservation, Land Use, Noise, Open Space, Parks and Recreation, Population, Redevelopment, Safety, Scenic Highways, Seismic Safety, and Housing Element. The proposed General Plan Update includes an update of the City’s Housing Element (6th Cycle, 2021-2029), which was adopted by the City Council in June 2022 and subsequently certified by HCD on July 11, 2022. While an Initial Study/Negative Declaration (IS-ND) was prepared and adopted concurrently with the Housing Element, the 6th Cycle Housing Element is a component of the General Plan and is also analyzed in the EIR. The rest of the proposed General Plan Update consists of eight chapters: Our Natural Community, our Prosperous Community, Our Well Planned Community, Our Accessible Community, Our Healthy Community, Our Safe Community, Our Active Community, and Our Creative Community. The Downtown Montebello Specific Plan is a component of the proposed General Plan Update. It focuses on Downtown Montebello, which is roughly bounded by Greenwood Avenue on the west, Los Angeles Avenue on the south, the Rio Hondo Channel on the east, and Cleveland Avenue on the north. The boundaries of the Downtown Montebello Specific Plan area are shown with the red line on the map shown in Attachment 1. The Specific Plan area includes a walkable core area around the Montebello Boulevard/Whittier Boulevard intersection. The Downtown Montebello Specific Plan is an integrated plan that implements the community driven vision, direction, and policy guidance set in the proposed Montebello General Plan Update.

Montebello

Los Angeles

Southern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), 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 Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), 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 Lands Commission (SLC), San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy (RMC), 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 Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT), Department of Toxic Substances Control, California Department of Conservation (DOC)

California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT), Department of Toxic Substances Control, California Department of Conservation (DOC)

Residential (Units 16893, Acres 5376), Commercial (Future employee numbers are not know at this time)(Sq. Ft. 368955, Acres 5376, Employees 1), Other (104 rooms)

General Plan Update, Specific Plan

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire