HAZARDS & HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Potentially Significant Environmental Impacts Hazards & Hazardous Material

Summary Concerns

A. Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through the routine transport, use, or disposal of hazardous materials

B. Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through reasonably foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment

C. Emit hazardous emissions or handle hazardous or acutely hazardous materials, substances, or waste within one-quarter mile of an existing or proposed school

D. Be located on a site which is included on a list of hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5 and, as a result, would create a significant hazard to the public or the environment

F. Impair implementation of or physically interfere with an adopted emergency response plan or emergency evacuation plan

Details

A. the Project operations would likely involve the use and storage of small quantities of potentially hazardous materials in the form of cleaning solvents, painting supplies, pesticides for landscaping, and petroleum products. Accordingly, further analysis of this issue will be provided in the EIR.

B. The Project Site is located in a City-designated methane zone.88,89 Additionally, several of the existing buildings within the Project Site are 50 or more years old (all of which would be demolished as part of the Project); therefore, asbestos containing materials and leadbased paint may be present. As such, further analysis in the EIR is required to determine the Project’s potential impacts with respect to reasonably foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment

C. Nora Sterry Elementary School and New Horizon School are located within 0.25-mile of the Project Site. While the Project is not expected to involve hazardous emissions or handle acutely hazardous materials, substances, or waste, further evaluation of this topic will be included in the EIR due to the proximity of the schools.

D. The Project Site may appear on a list of hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5. In addition, properties in the surrounding area have the potential to be listed on various environmental databases.

F. According to the City’s General Plan Safety Element, the nearest disaster route to the Project Site is Santa Monica Boulevard, which is located immediately north of the Project Site.91,92 While it is expected that the majority of construction activities for the Project would be confined to the Project Site, limited off-site construction activities may occur in adjacent street rights-of-way during certain periods of the day, which could potentially require temporary lane closures.

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