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RESOLUTION NO. 1535
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF TUSTIN RECOMMENDING TO THE CITY COUNCIL THE
AMENDMENT OF THE CIRCULATION ELEMENT OF THE GENERAL
PLAN AND AN AMENDMENT TO THE MASTER PLAN OF ARTERIAL
HIGHWAYS FOR THE COUNTY OF ORANGE
The Planning Commission of the City of Tustin does hereby
resolve as follows?
1. The Planning Commission finds and determines as follows:
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a. That the Master Plan of Arterial Highways of Orange
County, as the Circulation Element of the Tustin
Area General Plan, designates Irvine Boulevard as
a Major Arterial Highway for that portion between
· Newport Avenue and the westerly City boundary at
the Newport Freeway, and for other areas in Tustin's
Sphere of Influence;
b. That subject street is presently developed to
standards of a Primary Arterial with developments
~ of a unique professional office building ck~racter
which is not conducive nor compatible to high
traffic volume;
c. . That the Board of Supervisors of Orange County in
the adoption of Alternative 5 of the Southeast
County Circulation Study did by default relegate
to Irvine Boulevard the status of the major east-
west traffic artery between the Newport Freeway
and the North E1 Toro area with traffic projections
from a current 17,000 average daily traffic volume
count to more than 60,'000 vehicle traffic volume;
d. That the Planning Co~%missi~n, on the motiOn of the
city council, has advertised and conducted a public
hearing for the purpose of amending the Master Plan
of Arterial Highways and the Circulation Element
of the General Plan to change the status, of Irvine
Boulevard from the indicated Major Arterial to a
Primary Arterial status with an advertised public
hearing held on August 23, 1976; and
e. That the proposed amendment is categorically exempt
from the requirements of an Environmental Impact
Report pursu~-~t to Section 15101 of the State
Guidelines as Class 1: Existing Facilities.
2. The Planning Commission hereby recommends to the City
Council the amendment of the circulation Element and
the Master Plan of Arterial Highways of the County of
Orange to change from the designation of Major Arterial
to Primary Arterial for such portions of Irvine Blvd.
within the Sphere .of Influence of the City of Tustin.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of th'e' Planning
Commission, City of Tustin, Califorp.,i,a., held on th.e 23rd day of August,
1976.
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CHAI'RM~uN OF THE PLANNING C0594I~SION --
PLANNING COMMISSION RE~RDING SECRETARY
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