Key Findings Overview

As part of the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan's environmental review process, an extensive impact report was completed. The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) analyzed 15 areas such as Air Quality and Public Services and investigated how those areas will be impacted as a result of the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan.

The Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) marks an important milestone for the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan. The City and County of Los Angeles, with the assistance of an independent environmental consultant, Matrix Environmental, completed the DEIR and released the document for a 60-day public review and comment period. The City of Los Angeles Department of City Planning is the lead agency responsible for the preparation and distribution of the document. The County was also integrally involved in preparing the DEIR.

A DEIR is designed to identify any potentially significant environmental impacts of a project and any feasible mitigation measures or alternatives which may be adopted to reduce or eliminate those impacts. In some cases potentially significant environmental impacts can be mitigated. In other cases when potentially significant environmental impacts cannot be fully mitigated to less than significant levels, the impact is deemed a significant and unavoidable environmental impact of the project.

The DEIR base report is approximately 2,500 pages with additional volumes with technical reports summarized in the DEIR. Key findings of the NBCUniversal Evolution Plan DEIR are summarized here with the full report available at the City of Los Angeles, Planning Department website.