Premier Pool Plastering

2024120074

City of Los Angeles

NOE - Notice of Exemption

12/3/2024

12/3/2024

Abraham Lamontagne

City of Los Angeles / Department of City Planning

Planning Assistant

Lead/Public Agency

200 N Spring st
Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 978-1399

abraham.lamontagne@lacity.org

Robert Amond

Pauline Amond & Associates

Representative

Parties Undertaking Project

11030 North Belmar Avenue
Porter Ranch, CA 91326

(818) 307-0472

rjamond@gmail.com

34°19'21.6"N 118°27'3.4"W

91342

14520 Foothill Blvd, Sylmar, CA 91342 and Cambria way

Categorical Exemption

Section 15301 (Class 1)

Class 1 consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency's determination. The Planning Department determined that the City of Los Angeles Guidelines for the implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970 and the State CEQA Guidelines designate the subject project as Categorically Exempt under Article 19, Section 15303, Class 3. The project is the continued use and maintenance of a contractor's office and storage yard and the parking of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 5,600 pounds. The site is zoned RD3-1XL and has a General Plan Land Use Designation of Low Medium I Residential. As shown in the case file, the project is consistent with the applicable Sylmar Community Plan designation and policies and all applicable zoning designations and regulations. The subject site is wholly within the City of Los Angeles, on a site that is approximately 0.53 acres. Lots adjacent to the subject site are developed with residential and freeway uses. The site is previously disturbed and surrounded by development and therefore is not, and has no value as, a habitat for endangered, rare or threatened species. There are five (5) Exceptions which the City is required to consider before finding a project exempt under Class 1: (a) Cumulative Impacts; (b) Significant Effect; (c) Scenic Highways; (d) Hazardous Waste Sites; and (e) Historical Resources. There is not a succession of known projects of the same type and in the same place as the subject project. As mentioned, the project requests the continued use and maintenance of a contractor's office and storage yard and the parking of vehicles with a gross vehicle weight in excess of 5,600 pounds_ Adjacent lots are developed with one- to two-story residential buildings with associated parking and Interstate 210 (Foothill Freeway), and the subject site is of a similar size and slope to nearby properties. The project does not propose any changes to the height or Floor Area Ratio (FAR) and is not unusual for the vicinity of the subject site and is similar in scope to other existing Low Medium I Residential land use in the area. Thus, there are no unusual circumstances which may lead to a significant effect on the environment. Additionally, the only State Scenic Highway within the City of Los Angeles is the Topanga Canyon State Scenic Highway, State Route 27, which travels through a portion of Topanga State Park and is approximately 19 miles away from the project site. Therefore the subject site will not create any impacts within a highway designated as a state scenic highway. Furthermore, according to Envirostor, the State of California's database of Hazardous Waste Sites, neither the subject site, nor any site in the vicinity, is identified as a hazardous waste site. The project site was found to be a potential historic resource based on the City's HistoricPlacesLA website and SurveyLA, the citywide survey of Los Angeles. However, the historic resources comprise the existing restaurant use, building, and sign, all of which are unchanged by the project. Based on this, the project will not result in a substantial adverse change to the significance of a historic resource and this exception does not apply.