Metro - File #: 2020-0503

• File #: 2020-0503
• Type: Project
• Status: Consent Calendar
• File created: 7/27/2020
• In control: Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
• On agenda: 10/22/2020
• Final action: 10/22/2020
• Title: APPROVE the Addendum No. 2 to the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Los Angeles Union Station Forecourt and Esplanade Improvements Project.
• Sponsors: Planning and Programming Committee
• Indexes: Active Transportation Program, Americans With Disabilities Act, Bicycling, Bikeways, California Environmental Quality Act, Central Los Angeles subregion, City of Los Angeles, Construction, Curbs, Downtown Los Angeles, Environmental Impact Report, Grant Aid, Intersections, Los Angeles Union Station, Los Angeles Union Station Forecourt and Esplanade Improvements, Maps, Metro Equity Platform, Metro Rail A Line, Nonmotorized transportation, Pedestrian movement, Pedestrians, Plan, Project, San Fernando Valley subregion, Sidewalks, South Bay Cities subregion, Strategic planning, Striping, Walking, Westside Cities subregion, Zoning
• Related files: 2020-0786

Date	Action By	Action	Result
10/22/2020	Board of Directors - Regular Board Meeting
10/14/2020	Planning and Programming Committee

Meeting_Body
PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE
OCTOBER 14, 2020

Subject
SUBJECT: LOS ANGELES UNION STATION FORECOURT AND ESPLANADE IMPROVEMENTS

Action
ACTION: APPROVE RECOMMENDATION

Heading
RECOMMENDATION
Title

APPROVE the Addendum No. 2 to the Final Environmental Impact Report for the Los Angeles Union Station Forecourt and Esplanade Improvements Project.
Issue
ISSUE

The Metro Board of Directors (Board) certified the Los Angeles Union Station Forecourt and Esplanade Improvements (Project) Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) in March 2018 and Addendum No. 1 in July 2018. Since then, the Project team has substantially completed design, stakeholder engagement and interagency coordination with the City of Los Angeles (City). Addendum No. 2 (Attachment A) memorializes design changes that occurred since the FEIR and Addendum No. 1 and requires consideration under the California Environmental Policy Act (CEQA). The proposed design changes will not result in new or significant impacts than those previously documented.

Background
BACKGROUND

The Project will reconfigure the public right-of-way in front of Los Angeles Union Station (LAUS) to expand safe and accessible pedestrian and bike facilities on Alameda and Los Angeles Streets and create a civic plaza in front of the station. Staff has secured approximately $18M in Caltrans Active Transportation Program (ATP) grant funds to design and implement the project improvements, apart from construction funds for the forecourt.

The Project elements cleared in the FEIR and Addendum No. 1 include:

* Alameda Esplanade: Roadway configuration on Alameda Street between Arcadia Street and Cesar E. Chavez Avenue to narrow the roadway and widen pedestrian and bicyclist facilities with a shared pedestrian/bicyclist multi-use path on the eastern sidewalk.
* Los Angeles Crossing: Consolidated raised crossing at Alameda and Los Angeles Streets, closure of the northern Los Angeles Street travel lane and the ...