Port Updates Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan EIR
Contact: Brianne Mundy Page, 619.348.1518, bpage@portofsandiego.org
The Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners has approved an update to the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan Environmental Impact Report (EIR), helping to ensure continued successful project implementation.
In recent years, the Port and partners have opened the Gaylord Pacific Resort & Convention Center, Sweetwater Park, and Sun Outdoors San Diego Bay RV resort. Additionally, improvements in the newly expanded Harbor Park (formerly Bayside Park) are in progress. These projects are all part of Phase 1 of the Chula Vista Bayfront redevelopment. Future phases include landside redevelopment and expansion of the marinas, and additional park and commercial recreation projects.
The Board certified the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan EIR in 2010. Within it is a timeline for mitigation associated with specific transportation impacts that the Port has since identified as being aggressive; therefore, the Port has refined the transportation mitigation measures associated with future projects to clarify and clearly define the timing of when mitigation associated with specific transportation impacts should be implemented and the proportionality of fiscal responsibility for each measure when a potentially significant traffic impact occurs. This will help ensure success when the Port seeks future development partners.
“Gaylord Pacific and our other Phase 1 projects are just the beginning – we have so much more to do!” said Chair Ann Moore, Port of San Diego Board of Port Commissioners. “By making this small but critical update to the EIR, we will be able to encourage further additional development consistent with our Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan to help us deliver even more coastal access and economic opportunity for the South Bay community and all our bayfront visitors for generations to come.”
A partnership between the Port of San Diego and City of Chula Vista, the redevelopment of the 535-acre Chula Vista Bayfront envisions a world-class destination in the South Bay – a unique place for people to live, work and play. It is designed to create new public parks and recreational adventures, improve the natural habitat, offer new dining and shopping options, provide a world-class hotel and convention center, and more – all for residents and coastal visitors to enjoy.
Learn more at portofsandiego.org/chulavistabayfront. The EIR update, titled “Fourth Addendum to the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan Final EIR for Updated Transportation Mitigation Measures,” is available in the documents section at the bottom of the page.
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