EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Executive
Summary
Introduction
Current
Operating HOV Facilities in Orange County
Purpose
of the DEIR/EIS
Purpose
and Need for the Project
Project
Alternatives
Project
Impacts/Mitigation
Coordination
with Resource Agencies
PROJECT IMPACTS/MITIGATION
Table S.5-1 of the DEIR/EIS summarizes
the potential environmental impacts anticipated for
each alter-native of the proposed project, organized
by topic and alternative. These topics are fully discussed
in Sections 3.0 and 4.0, and in the technical analyses.
The proposed SR-22/WOCC project has potential community
(right-of-way), cultural, noise, and visual environmental
impacts. The community impacts would generally be
addressed with relocation assistance. Impacts to cultural
resources are relative to the Pacific Electric (PE)
Arterial in the Full Build Alternative. The noise
impacts would be addressed with the implementation
of noise barriers. The removal of existing vegetation
would be associated with visual im-pacts, and all
efforts would be made to preserve existing landscaping.
Where possible, new landscaping would be placed where
it can be sufficiently maintained and irrigated. These
impacts long their mitigation measures are further
discussed in Section 4.0 of the DEIR/EIS and the technical
reports.
Recognizing that this project is
in response to the increased demands placed on the
SR-22 both by local land use development as well as
by regional demands for an east-west corridor, the
impacts that it may cause are more than balanced by
the benefit it is providing. Additionally, construction
of the proposed SR-22 HOV connectors would improve
east-west mobility between Orange and Los Angeles
Counties, thereby indirectly improving mobility on
other freeways such as I-5, I-405, I-605, SR-55, and
SR-57 that connect to the SR-22 freeway.
