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4.L Law Enforcement Services

The Sheriff’s Department anticipates that response times for the project site would be
approximately 5 to 8 minutes for emergent calls, 8 to 11 minutes for priority calls, and 25 to
35 minutes for routine calls. As discussed above, the Sheriff’s Department has response time
goals of 10 minutes, 20 minutes, and 60 minutes or less for emergent calls, priority calls, and
routine calls, respectively. Therefore, the project’s response times for law enforcement
protection services would be adequate, and impacts related to response times would be less than
significant.

The project does not propose the construction of new or physically altered facilities to
meet the increased demand for law enforcement services, and no such facilities are currently
proposed in the area. Therefore, no impacts related to the construction of such facilities would
occur.

(2) California Highway Patrol

As indicated by the CHP, the project would result in an increase in the residential
population and, therefore, would increase demand for CHP services. This increased demand for
CHP services would further extend existing resources for traffic control and incident response if
additional staffing and upgrades are not adequately funded in the future. While project residents
would generate revenue to the state’s Motor Vehicle Account, the primary source of funding for
the CHP, if such funds are not allocated toward additional CHP staffing and facilities in the area,
the project’s impacts on CHP services would be significant and unavoidable.

4. MITIGATION MEASURES

a. Sheriff’s Department

4.L-1(a) Prior to issuance of building permits, the project shall incorporate Crime
Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) features into the
project, in coordination with and to the satisfaction of the Sheriff’s
Department. Such features should include, but are not limited to the
following:

• Lighting in parking lots and low-level security lighting;
• Provision that doors and windows are visible from the street and between
buildings;

• Lighting of building address numbers to ensure visibility from the street
for emergency response agencies; and

• Landscaping that would minimize opportunities for hiding.

County of Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning Skyline Ranch Project
PCR Services Corporation July 2009

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