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September 2010 Draft Program EIR for theCity of Santa Clarita’s Proposed One Valley One Vision General Plan SCH# 2008071133 Volume I One Valley One Vision 2010 Draft Program EIR for theCity of Santa Clarita’s Proposed One Valley One Vision General Plan SCH# 2008071133 Volume I One Valley One Vision 2010 Prepared by: IMPACT SCIENCES, INC. 803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite A Camarillo, California 93012 (805) 437-1900 FAX (805) 437-1901 IMPACT SCIENCES, INC. 803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite A Camarillo, California 93012 (805) 437-1900 FAX (805) 437-1901 Prepared for: City of Santa Clarita Community Development 23920 Valencia Boulevard Santa Clarita, California 91355-2175 Attn: Jason Smisko, Senior Planner September 2010

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September 2010

Draft Program EIR for theCity of Santa Clarita’sProposed One Valley One Vision General Plan

SCH# 2008071133

Volume I

One Valley One Vision2010

Draft Program EIR

for theCity of Santa Clarita’s

Proposed One Valley One Vision

General Plan

SCH# 2008071133

Volume I

One Valley One Vision2010

Prepared by:

IMPACT SCIENCES, INC.803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite ACamarillo, California 93012(805) 437-1900 FAX (805) 437-1901

IMPACT SCIENCES, INC.803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite ACamarillo, California 93012(805) 437-1900 FAX (805) 437-1901

Prepared for:City of Santa Clarita

Community Development23920 Valencia Boulevard

Santa Clarita, California 91355-2175Attn: Jason Smisko, Senior Planner

September 2010

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Draft Program EIR for the City of Santa Clarita’sProposed One Valley One Vision General Plan

SCH# 2008071133

Volume I

Prepared for:

City of Santa ClaritaCommunity Development23920 Valencia Boulevard

Santa Clarita, California 91355-2175Attn: Jason Smisko, Senior Planner

Prepared by:

Impact Sciences, Inc.803 Camarillo Springs Road, Suite A

Camarillo, California 93012

September 2010

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Volume I

Section Page

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ....................................................................................................................................ES-1

1.0 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................................. 1.0-1

2.0 PROJECT DESCRIPTION..................................................................................................................... 2.0-1

3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ANALYSIS ....................................................................................... 3.0-13.1 Land Use................................................................................................................................... 3.1-13.2 Transportation and Circulation............................................................................................. 3.2-13.3 Air Quality ............................................................................................................................... 3.3-13.4 Global Warming and Climate Change ................................................................................. 3.4-13.5 Agricultural Resources........................................................................................................... 3.5-13.6 Aesthetics ................................................................................................................................. 3.6-13.7 Biological Resources ............................................................................................................... 3.7-13.8 Cultural Resources.................................................................................................................. 3.8-13.9 Geology, Soils, Seismicity ...................................................................................................... 3.9-13.10 Mineral Resources..................................................................................................................3.10-13.11 Human Made Hazards..........................................................................................................3.11-13.12 Hydrology and Water Quality .............................................................................................3.12-13.13 Water Service..........................................................................................................................3.13-13.14 Community Services..............................................................................................................3.14-13.15 Public Services........................................................................................................................3.15-13.16 Parks and Recreation .............................................................................................................3.16-13.17 Utilities and Infrastructure ...................................................................................................3.17-13.18 Noise ........................................................................................................................................3.18-13.19 Population and Housing.......................................................................................................3.19-1

4.0 CUMULATIVE IMPACTS ................................................................................................................... 4.0-1

5.0 EFFECTS FOUND NOT TO BE SIGNIFICANT ................................................................................ 5.0-1

6.0 ALTERNATIVES................................................................................................................................... 6.0-1

7.0 UNAVOIDABLE SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ..................................................................................... 7.0-1

8.0 SIGNIFICANT IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES ................................................ 8.0-1

9.0 GROWTH-INDUCING IMPACTS...................................................................................................... 9.0-1

10.0 LIST OF PREPARERS ..........................................................................................................................10.0-1

11.0 REFERENCES.......................................................................................................................................11.0-1

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Appendices

Volume II

1.0 Notice of Preparation, Responses to the NOP, Scoping Meeting Information, and PublicWorkshopsNotice of Preparations for the Draft Environmental Impact ReportScoping Meeting Notes Summary of Verbal Comments and Flyer; dated August 12, 2008Ventura County Office of Agricultural Commissioner Comment on NOP; dated

August 8, 2008OVOV Noise Element Questions, submitted by Bob Werner; dated February 17, 2009Ventura County Public Works Agency, Transportation Department, Comment on NOP;

dated August 14, 2008City CommentsFriends of the Santa Clara River Comment on NOP; dated August 25, 2008Ventura County Air Pollution Control District Comment on NOP; dated August 26, 2008Caltrans Comment on NOP; dated August 28, 2008South Coast Air Quality Management District Comment on NOP; dated July 31, 2008Ventura County Watershed Protection District Comment on NOP; dated August 26, 2008Ventura County Watershed Protection District Comment on NOP; dated September 2,

2008Agua Dulce Town Council Comment on NOP; dated September 11, 2008Los Angeles County Department of Public Works Comment on NOP; dated September

22, 2008OVOV November 2008 Workshop Comment CardsPCPOA OVOV Concerns; dated December 23, 2008Thomas M. Surak Comment on NOP; dated May 27, 2009Valley Industrial Association Letter to the City of Santa Clarita; dated February 6, 2009

3.2 One Valley One Vision Valley-wide Traffic Study, prepared by Austin-Foust Associates,Inc.; dated June 2010

3.3 Air Quality Emission Calculations

3.4 Global Climate Change DocumentationGreenhouse Gas Emission CalculationsComparison of CAPCOA Greenhouse Gas Policies with One Valley One Vision

3.9 Soil Types and Characteristics of the City’s Planning Area

3.13 Water Service InformationCalifornia’s Groundwater Bulletin 118, Update 2003, October 20032005 Urban Water Management PlanAnalysis of Groundwater Basin Yield, Upper Santa Clara River Groundwater Basin, East

Subbasin; dated August 2005

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3.13 Water Service Information (continued)California Department of Water Resources, “State Water Project Delivery Reliability

Report 2007” (August 2008)Luhdorf & Scalmanini Technical Memorandum: Potential Capture of Perchlorate

Contamination, Valencia Water Company Wells E14–E17; April 26, 2006Water Supply Contracts Between the State of California Department of Water Resources

and CLWA including Amendment No. 18 (41,000 Acre-Feet Water Transfer)California Court of Appeals, Second District, Division Four, “Friends of the Santa Clara

River v. Castaic Lake Water Agency (2002 95 Cal.App.4th 1373” (2002)Los Angeles County Supreme Court, “Judgement Granting Preemptory Writ of Mandate,

Friends of the Santa Clara River v. Castaic Lake Water Agency, Case No. BS056954”(October 25, 2002)

Memorandum of Understanding Between the Santa Clara River Valley Upper BasinWater Purveyors and United Water Conservation District, August 2001

California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Four, “Friends of the Santa ClaraRiver v. Castaic Lake Water Agency, Appellate No. B164027” (December 1, 2003)

Los Angeles County Superior Court, “Statement of Decision, California Water ImpactNetwork v. Castaic Lake Water Agency, Case No. BS098724” (April 2, 2007)

Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers, “2009 Santa Clarita Valley Water Report”(May 2010)

Groundwater Management Plan, Santa Clara River Valley Groundwater Basin, datedDecember 2003

CH2MHill, “Regional Groundwater Flow Model for the Santa Clarita Valley: ModelDevelopment and Calibration” (April 2004)

CH2MHill, “Calibration Update of the Regional Groundwater Flow Model for the SantaClarita Valley, Santa Clarita, California” (August 2005)

CH2MHill, “Analysis of Groundwater Basin Yield, Upper Santa Clara RiverGroundwater Basin, East Subbasin, Los Angeles County, California”(August 2005)

Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers, “Impact and Response to PerchlorateContamination, Valencia Water Company, Well Q2” (April 2005)

CH2MHill, “Analysis of Near-Term Groundwater Capture Areas for Production WellsLocated Near the Whittaker-Bermite Property (Santa Clarita, California)”(December 21, 2004)

Geomatrix, “Letter to the Department of Toxic Substances Control Regarding the FormerWhittaker-Bermite Facility, Santa Clarita, CA – Summary Report for Month ofNovember 2007” (January 15, 2008)

United States Environmental Protection Agency, “Perchlorate Update” (March 2002)Carollo Engineers, “Treatment of Perchlorate Contaminated Groundwater from the

Saugus Aquifer, Technical Memorandum No. 3 Bench and Pilot Test Results”(February 2004)

California Department of Water Resources, “Bulletin 132-04, Management of theCalifornia State Water Project” (September 2005)

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3.13 Water Service Information (continued)United States District Court, Eastern District of California, “Natural Resources Defense

Council v. Kempthorne, 506 F.Supp.2d 322 (E.D. Cal. 2007)” (“2007 Wangerdecision”)

California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Six, “Santa Clarita Organization forPlanning the Environment v. County of Los Angeles (2007) 157 Cal.App.4th 149”(2007)

California Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Three, “Sierra Club, et al. v. City ofSanta Clarita, et al., Case No. B194771” (January 2008)

Volume IV

3.13 Water Service Information (continued)CM2MHill, “Effect of Urbanization on Aquifer Recharge in the Santa Clarita Valley”

(February 22, 2004)Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers, “Evaluation of Groundwater Recharge

Methods for the Saugus Formation in the Newhall Ranch Specific Plan Area”(March 2006)

The California Oak Foundation et al., v. City of Santa Clarita;Gate King Properties et al. Opinion

CH2MHill Final Report, Analysis of Perchlorate Containment in Groundwater Near theWhittaker-Bermite Property, December 2004

CLWA Treatment Plant Operations and Maintenance Memorandum, October 1, 2008Summary Report Letter from AMEC Geomatrix Regarding the Former Whittaker-

Bermite Facility, October 2008Monterey Settlement AgreementGovernor’s Press Release, “Gov. Schwarzenegger Directs Immediate Actions to Improve

the Deteriorating Delta, California’s Water Supply,” July 17, 2007United States District Court, Eastern District of California, “Pacific Coast Federation of

Fishermen’s Associations, et al. v. Gutierrez, et al., No. 06-CV-00245-OWW-GSA(E.D. Cal. 2008)” (“2008 Wanger decision”)

Los Angeles County Superior Court, “Sierra Club, et al. v. City of Santa Clarita, Case No. BS098722” (August 14, 2006)

CLWA Letter to the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning RegardingAvailability of Future Water Supplies in the Santa Clarita Valley, February 5,2008

2009 Basin Yield UpdateCalifornia Court of Appeal, Second District, Division Five, California Water Impact

Network, Inc., v. Castaic Lake Water Agency, Case No. B205622Castaic Lake Water Agency Litigation Settlement AgreementOrder Granting Joint Motion for Court Approval, Good Faith Settlement Determination

and Entry of Consent Order, July 16, 2007Stipulation to Dismiss Plaintiffs’ Claims and Defendants’ Counterclaim, August 20, 2007AMEC Geomatrix, Progress Letter Report from Hassan Amini, Ph.D., Project

Coordinator, to DTSC, September 15, 2009CLWA News Release, September 14, 2009

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3.13 Water Service Information (continued)AMEC Geomatrix, Progress Letter Report from Hassan Amini, Ph.D., Project

Coordinator, to DTSC, June 8, 2009CLWA Memorandum from Brian J. Folsom to CLWA Board of Directors, October 1, 2009DWR, Bulletin 132-06, Management of the California State Water Project, December 2007Biological Opinion for the Delta smelt, 2008

Volume V

3.13 Water Service Information (continued)Biological Opinion for the Chinook salmon/sturgeonNOAA/NMFS release summarizing the 2009 Biological Opinion, June 4, 2009DWR release responding to the 2009 Biological Opinion, June 4, 2009SWP Contractors’ release concerning the litigation filed challenging the 2009 Biological

Opinion, August 6, 2009Coalition for a Sustainable Delta/Kern County Water Agency release concerning the

litigation filed challenging the 2009 Biological Opinion, August 28, 2009DWR, 2009 Comprehensive Water Package, Special Session Policy Bills and Bond

Summary, November 2009Office of the Governor’s release regarding passage of history comprehensive water

package, November 4, 2009

3.18 Draft City of Santa Clarita General Plan Noise Element, February 2009

6.0 Project Alternatives Air Quality and Climate Change CalculationsAlternative 2 Air Quality and Climate Change CalculationsAlternative 3 Air Quality and Climate Change Calculations

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LIST OF FIGURES

Figure Page

2.0-1 Regional Location Map......................................................................................................................... 2.0-32.0-2 Vicinity Map........................................................................................................................................... 2.0-42.0-3 Community Locations .......................................................................................................................... 2.0-52.0-4 Proposed Land Use Policy Map .........................................................................................................2.0-283.1-1 Existing General Plan Land Use Map................................................................................................. 3.1-33.1-2 Proposed Land Use Policy Map .........................................................................................................3.1-223.1-3 Land Use Change Map for the Planning Area .................................................................................3.1-313.2-1 Existing Roadway Network................................................................................................................. 3.2-73.2-2a Typical Roadway Cross Sections......................................................................................................... 3.2-83.2-2b Typical Roadway Cross Sections (continued) ................................................................................... 3.2-93.2-2c Typical Roadway Cross Sections (continued) ..................................................................................3.2-103.2-2d Typical Roadway Cross Sections (continued) ..................................................................................3.2-113.2-3 Study Area Roadway Segments .........................................................................................................3.2-183.2-4 Existing Average Traffic Volumes .....................................................................................................3.2-193.2-5 Study Area Principal Intersections.....................................................................................................3.2-223.2-6 OVOV Highway Plan ..........................................................................................................................3.2-393.2-7 Average Daily Traffic Volumes – Buildout of Current City General Plan and County

Area Plan ...............................................................................................................................................3.2-403.2-8 Average Daily Traffic Volumes – Buildout of Proposed City General Plan and County

Area Plan ...............................................................................................................................................3.2-413.2-9 Level of Service Comparison for Principal Intersections................................................................3.2-523.3-1 South Coast Air Basin........................................................................................................................... 3.3-73.5-1 Farmland Designations within the OVOV Planning Area .............................................................. 3.5-33.5-2 Agricultural Production within the City’s Planning Area..............................................................3.5-103.6-1 Scenic Resources within the OVOV Planning Area.......................................................................... 3.6-33.7-1 Sensitive Biological Resources............................................................................................................. 3.7-93.7-2 Current and Proposed Significant Ecological Areas........................................................................3.7-123.8-1 Cultural Resources within the City’s Planning Area........................................................................ 3.8-73.9-1 Soils Types within the City’s Planning Area ..................................................................................... 3.9-33.9-2 Liquefaction and Landslide Hazards within the OVOV Planning Area ......................................3.9-123.9-3 Faults within or adjacent to the OVOV Planning Area ...................................................................3.9-173.9-4 Epicenters of Major Historic Earthquakes within the OVOV Planning Area..............................3.9-203.10-1 Existing Mineral Resources.................................................................................................................3.10-33.10-2 Residential Land Uses/Mineral Land Uses Overlay......................................................................3.10-103.11-1 Hazardous Material Sites in the City’s Planning Area....................................................................3.11-33.11-2 Wildfire Hazard Zones within the City’s Planning Area .............................................................3.11-103.12-1 100-Year Flood Zone of the City’s Planning Area............................................................................3.12-33.12-2 Bank Stabilization, Typical Cross Section.........................................................................................3.12-63.12-3 Groundwater Basins within and Adjacent to the City’s Planning Area .......................................3.12-93.12-4 Surface Water Within and Adjacent to the City’s Planning Area ................................................3.12-123.13-1 Castaic Lake Water Agency Service Area.......................................................................................3.13-153.13-2 Santa Clara River Valley East Groundwater Basin - East Subbasin ............................................3.13-223.13-3 Upper Santa Clara River Hydrologic Area.....................................................................................3.13-233.13-4 Municipal Alluvial Well Locations; Santa Clara River Valley, East Groundwater Subbasin ..3.13-44

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3.13-5 Saugus Well Locations, Santa Clara River Valley, East Groundwater Subbasin.......................3.13-493.13-6 Forecasted Two-Year Groundwater Capture Zones for Active Alluvial Production Wells

Located Closest to the Whittaker-Bermite Property Santa Clarita, California...........................3.13-583.13-7 Forecasted Two-Year Groundwater Capture Zones for Active Saugus Production Wells

Located Closest to the Whittaker-Bermite Property Santa Clarita, California...........................3.13-613.13-8 Principal State Water Program Facilities.........................................................................................3.13-703.15-1 Library Locations in the OVOV Planning Area ...............................................................................3.15-53.15-2 School District Boundaries and Schools within the OVOV Planning Area................................3.15-243.15-3 Fire Station Locations within the OVOV Planning Area ..............................................................3.15-373.15-4 Sheriff Station Locations within the OVOV Planning Area .........................................................3.15-563.16-1 Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Resources.................................................................................3.16-33.16-2 Master Plan of Trails ..........................................................................................................................3.16-183.17-1 Landfills Serving the OVOV Planning Area...................................................................................3.17-233.18-1 Typical Sound Level in A-Weighted Decibels..................................................................................3.18-33.18-2 The Effects of Weather on Sound Propagation ................................................................................3.18-63.18-3 Single and Cumulative Noise Metric Definitions ............................................................................3.18-93.18-4 Examples of Typical Outdoor CNEL Levels...................................................................................3.18-103.18-5 Speech Interference and Noise Levels.............................................................................................3.18-133.18-6 Noise Measurement Locations .........................................................................................................3.18-163.18-7 Short-Term Ambient Noise Measurement Results........................................................................3.18-173.18-8 Existing (2007) Noise Contours ........................................................................................................3.18-203.18-9 State Land Use Compatibility Guidelines for Noise......................................................................3.18-233.18-10 City Land Use Compatibility Guidelines for Noise.......................................................................3.18-243.18-11 Projected General Plan Noise Contours ..........................................................................................3.18-413.18-12 OVOV Planning Area Noise Contours............................................................................................3.18-424.0-1 Cumulative Individual Project Location Map................................................................................... 4.0-3

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ES-1 Summary of Project Impacts and Recommended Mitigation Measures....................................... ES-121.0-1 Community Outreach and Public Meetings...................................................................................... 1.0-31.0-2 Summary of NOP Comments and Location of Where the Comment is Addressed in the

Draft EIR................................................................................................................................................1.0-121.0-3 Scoping Comments and Location of Where the Comment is Addressed in the Draft EIR.......1.0-782.0-1 Summary of Population, Housing, and Employment Projections for the OVOV Planning

Area and City’s Planning Area at Buildout ......................................................................................2.0-262.0-2 Land Use Designations and Areas.....................................................................................................2.0-423.1-1 Existing Land Uses within the City ...................................................................................................3.1-103.1-2 Existing Land Uses Within the City’s Adopted SOI........................................................................3.1-123.1-3 Approved Specific Plans .....................................................................................................................3.1-133.1-4 Proposed General Plan Land Use Designations and Acres ............................................................3.1-283.1-5 Compared Existing and Proposed Land Use Designations............................................................3.1-293.2-1 Level of Service Criteria – Roadways and Intersections .................................................................. 3.2-33.2-2 Roadway Classification Capacities ..................................................................................................... 3.2-43.2-3 Level of Service Criteria – Freeway Segments................................................................................... 3.2-43.2-4 Existing Level of Service Summary – Arterial Roadways ..............................................................3.2-133.2-5 ICU and Level of Service Summary – Principal Intersections (2007-2010)...................................3.2-203.2-6 Trip Generation – Existing vs. OVOV Buildout ...............................................................................3.2-333.2-7 Trip Generation – Existing City General Plan and County Area Plan Buildout vs. OVOV

Buildout .................................................................................................................................................3.2-343.2-8 ADT V/C and LOS – Existing Conditions vs OVOV Buildout Conditions (With Highway

Plan Roadways) ....................................................................................................................................3.2-353.2-9 Future Level of Service Summary – Arterial Roadways .................................................................3.2-423.2-10 ICU And LOS Summary for Principal Intersections – Existing Conditions vs OVOV

Buildout Conditions (With Highway Plan Roadways)...................................................................3.2-533.2-11 Comparison of Existing General Plan and Area Plan Intersections with OVOV Buildout

Without Improvements to Roadways ...............................................................................................3.2-563.2-12 Trip Length and VMT Comparison – Existing City General Plan and County Area Plan

Buildout vs. OVOV Buildout..............................................................................................................3.2-583.2-13 Freeway Segment Level of Service.....................................................................................................3.2-653.3-1 Average Monthly Temperatures and Precipitation for Dry Canyon Reservoir, CA, 1921–

1990.......................................................................................................................................................... 3.3-33.3-2 Ambient Air Quality Standards .........................................................................................................3.3-133.3-3 2005 Annual Average Day Toxic Emissions for the South Coast Air Basin.................................3.3-163.3-4 Ambient Pollutant Concentrations, Santa Clarita/Placerita Monitoring Station and

Nearest Monitoring Stations...............................................................................................................3.3-203.3-5 Ambient Pollutant Concentrations, Piru Monitoring Station.........................................................3.3-213.3-6 South Coast Air Basin Attainment Status, NAAQS (Los Angeles County) .................................3.3-243.3-7 South Coast Air Basin Attainment Status, CAAQS .........................................................................3.3-243.3-8 Estimated Maximum Construction Emissions Under Proposed General Plan and Area

Plan (Unmitigated)...............................................................................................................................3.3-39

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3.3-9 Operational Emissions from Existing Conditions............................................................................3.3-473.3-10 Estimated Maximum Operational Emissions Under Proposed General Plan and Area

Plan (Unmitigated)...............................................................................................................................3.3-483.4-1 Top Five GHG Producer Countries and the European Union........................................................ 3.4-53.4-2 GHG Emissions in California .............................................................................................................. 3.4-63.4-3 Comparison of Global Pre-Industrial and Current GHG Concentrations1 ................................... 3.4-83.4-4 AB 32 Scoping Plan Measures ............................................................................................................3.4-233.4-5 Estimated Existing Annual GHG Emissions ....................................................................................3.4-453.4-6 GHG Emissions from the Proposed General Plan and Area Plan.................................................3.4-463.4-7 Consistency of Sustainable Strategies with AB 32 Scoping Plan Measures .................................3.4-763.4-8 Climate Change Scoping Plan GHG Emission Reductions ............................................................3.4-853.4-9 Consistency with the 2006 Climate Action Team Report................................................................3.4-883.4-10 Consistency with Office of Planning and Research Suggested Measures ..................................3.4-1033.4-11 Attorney General’s Recommended General Plan Mitigation Measures.....................................3.4-1173.5-1 California Agricultural Land Conversion 2002–2004....................................................................... 3.5-63.5-2 Top Counties with Irrigated Land Converted to Urban Land........................................................ 3.5-83.7-1 Special-Status Wildlife Species Known to Occur in the City’s Planning Area.............................. 3.7-63.7-2 Special-Status Plant Species Known to Occur in the Region..........................................................3.7-103.8-1 Cultural and Historical Resources in the City’s Planning Area...................................................... 3.8-83.9-1 Richter Scale of Magnitude for Earthquakes ....................................................................................3.9-143.9-2 Historic Earthquakes that Have Affected the City’s Planning Area .............................................3.9-193.11-1 Hazardous Materials Sites in the City of Santa Clarita Planning Area.........................................3.11-23.13-1 Retail Water Service Connections ....................................................................................................3.13-203.13-2 Groundwater Operating Plan for the Santa Clarita Valley...........................................................3.13-323.13-3 Historical Groundwater Production by the Retail Water Purveyors ..........................................3.13-343.13-4 Projected Groundwater Production (Normal Year) ......................................................................3.13-353.13-5 Pumping Rates Simulated for Individual Alluvial Aquifer Wells under the 2008

Groundwater Operating Plan...........................................................................................................3.13-393.13-6 Pumping Rates Simulated for Individual Saugus Formation Wells under the 2008

Groundwater Operating Plan...........................................................................................................3.13-423.13-7 Perchlorate Treatment Summary .....................................................................................................3.13-643.13-8 Comparison of Basin Plan Mineral Groundwater Objectives with Mean Measured Values

in Los Angeles County and SWP Water Quality at Castaic Lake ................................................3.13-663.13-9 Average And Dry Period SWP Table A Deliveries from The Delta Under Current

Conditions...........................................................................................................................................3.13-733.13-10 Average And Dry Period SWP Table A Deliveries From The Delta Under Future

Conditions...........................................................................................................................................3.13-733.13-11 Projected CLWA Water Demands (2050)......................................................................................3.13-1073.13-12 Existing Plus General Plan Demand and Supply – Within CLWA Service Area ....................3.13-1143.13-13 2050 Buildout Water Demand and Supplies – Within CLWA Boundary (acre-feet per

year) Average/Normal Year............................................................................................................3.13-1183.13-14 2050 Buildout Water Demand and Supplies – Within CLWA Boundary (acre-feet per

year) Single Dry Year .......................................................................................................................3.13-120

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3.13-15 2050 Buildout Water Demand and Supplies – Within CLWA Boundary (acre-feet peryear) Multi-Year Drought................................................................................................................3.13-122

3.15-1 Existing Library Resources within the City’s Planning Area.........................................................3.15-43.13-15 2050 Buildout Water Demand and Supplies – Within CLWA Boundary (acre-feet per

year) Multi-Year Drought (1)..........................................................................................................3.13-1213.14-1 Number of Homeless Clients in 2006–2007 Winter Shelter ..........................................................3.14-233.14-2 Age of Homeless Clients in 2006–2007 Winter Shelter..................................................................3.14-233.14-3 Race/Ethnicity of Homeless Clients in 2006–2007 Winter Shelter ...............................................3.14-233.15-2 Planned Construction for the City’s Planning Area ........................................................................3.15-63.15-3 Existing and Proposed Library Resources within the City’s Planning Area..............................3.15-103.15-4 City Planning Area Public School Enrollment 2007–2008.............................................................3.15-203.15-5 Student Generation Rates..................................................................................................................3.15-253.15-6 College Facilities.................................................................................................................................3.15-283.15-7 Existing Fire Station Facilities...........................................................................................................3.15-363.15-8 Fire Incidents.......................................................................................................................................3.15-383.15-9 Part I Crime Statistics for the City’s Planning Area 2000–2007....................................................3.15-553.16-1 Existing Parkland in the City’s Planning Area.................................................................................3.16-43.16-2 Open Space in the City’s Planning Area ...........................................................................................3.16-83.16-3 Planned Park Lands ...........................................................................................................................3.16-113.16-4 Planned Trails and Trailheads..........................................................................................................3.16-173.16-5 Parkland Acreage Goal and Quantities...........................................................................................3.16-223.17-1 Existing Landfill Capacity and Regional Needs Analysis for Los Angles County ...................3.17-243.18-1 Factors that Affect Individual Annoyance to Noise........................................................................3.18-53.18-2 City Ordinance Noise Limits ............................................................................................................3.18-263.18-3 Sound Level Comparison: Existing Conditions and Existing General Plan and Area Plan

Buildout Conditions...........................................................................................................................3.18-343.18-4 Sound Level Comparison: Existing Conditions and OVOV Buildout Conditions....................3.18-363.18-5 Sound Level Comparison: Existing General Plan and Area Plan vs. OVOV Buildout

Conditions...........................................................................................................................................3.18-383.19-1 SCAG’s Growth Forecast for the City of Santa Clarita....................................................................3.19-53.19-2 Regional Housing Needs Assessment...............................................................................................3.19-64.0-1 City of Santa Clarita Consolidated Projects....................................................................................... 4.0-54.0-2 North Los Angeles County Consolidated Projects ........................................................................... 4.0-94.0-3 Summary of Total County/City/Caltrans Consolidated Projects...................................................4.0-156.0-1 Existing General Plan and Proposed General Plan Land Use Designations................................. 6.0-86.0-2 Alternative 2 vs. Proposed General Plan Library Resources..........................................................6.0-276.0-3 Comparison of Parkland Acreage Goal and Quantities..................................................................6.0-296.0-4 Alternative 3 Summary........................................................................................................................6.0-346.0-5 Alternative 3 Trip Generation Summary ..........................................................................................6.0-366.0-6 Alternative 3 vs. Proposed General Plan Library Resources..........................................................6.0-416.0-7 Comparison of Parkland Acreage Goal and Quantities..................................................................6.0-436.0-8 Alternatives Analysis Comparison Summary..................................................................................6.0-47