Page 747 - skylineranchdeir0709

4.Q Land Use

California Clean Air Acts, including a comprehensive list of pollution control measures aimed at
reducing emissions. Specifically, the AQMP proposes a comprehensive list of pollution control
measures aimed at reducing emissions and achieving ambient air quality standards. Further
discussion of the AQMP can be found in Section 4.H, Air Quality, of this EIR.

(c) Metro—Congestion Management Program

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) administers the
Congestion Management Program (CMP), a state-mandated program designed to provide
comprehensive long-range traffic planning on a regional basis. The CMP includes a hierarchy of
highways and roadways with minimum level of service standards, transit standards, a trip
reduction and travel demand management element, a program to analyze the impacts of local
land use decisions on the regional transportation system, a seven-year capital improvement
program, and a county-wide computer model used to evaluate traffic congestion and recommend
relief strategies and actions. CMP guidelines specify that those freeway segments to which a
project could add 150 or more trips in each direction during the peak hours be evaluated. The
guidelines also require evaluation of designated CMP roadway intersections to which a project
could add 50 or more trips during either peak hour. The project’s consistency with the CMP is
discussed further in Section 4.F, Traffic/Access, of this EIR.

(2) Local Level—County of Los Angeles

The Countywide General Plan was prepared in 1980, with several Elements being revised
and updated over the years. The Streamlined General Plan is a document that was prepared by
Los Angeles County in January 1993 to provide a simplified version of the General Plan, and
ease user access to its key components. It includes Countywide Goals and Policies that were
current to 1993.
2

The Land Use Element of the General Plan was last updated in 1990 and sets forth
Countywide policy for the general location and intensity of land use. This Element serves as the
basis for more specific land use planning activities and provides general guidance for
coordinating future development. The goals and policies of the Land Use Element address a
large range of Countywide land use issues pertaining to the overall form of the region, and the
County’s large array of communities, e.g. urbanized, rural, etc. The policies, with elaboration in

2 The County is currently updating the General Plan and has prepared a Draft General Plan (September 2008)
that is available for public review at: http://planning.lacounty.gov/generalplan. An EIR that addresses the
environmental impacts of the amended plan is expected to become available in the winter of 2009. Adoption of
the updated Countywide General Plan is estimated for 2010. Until this Draft Plan is approved, the existing
General Plan is the current governing document.

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

Page 4.Q-3
PRELIMINARY WORKING DRAFT – Work in Progress