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• • • Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.H-4 • Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project • services and infrastructure,increased traffic and noise, and conversion of agricultural and • open space to development use. Inducement of disorderly growth that is inconsistent with local land use plans generally causes significant environmental impacts. If the proposed landfill expansion would stimulate growth into the area, then the project • would have growth inducing impacts. However, the 2018 Expansion Project, which would be smaller than the previously proposed expansion,involves neither the extension of public service, such as water or sewer lines, nor the creation of a land use that would stimulate adjacent development, the 2018 Expansion Project is not likely to have growth- inducing impacts. • It should also be noted that construction and extended operation period of the 2018 • Expansion Project would, because of the resulting environmental impacts, make the Project area less desirable for development. However, this effect would be smaller than • for the previously proposed expansion. The 2018 Expansion Project would be considered growth inducing if, by providing additional disposal capacity,the landfill would encourage development in the area. There • is no evidence that available waste disposal capacity is limiting development in the areas • that would be served by the Forward Landfill. Cumulative Impacts In evaluating potential environmental impacts, CEQA requires that the project be considered within the context of regional development. While the environmental effects resulting from an individual project may appear less than significant when considered . alone,they may be significant when added to impacts caused by other projects in the area. • Cumulative impacts are defined by CEQA Guidelines Section 15355 as "two or more individual effects which, when considered together, are considerable, or which • compound or increase other environmental impacts." The cumulative impacts analyses in this document are made on the basis of lists of past, present, and reasonably anticipated future projects, as well as projections of growth that • encompass both specific development and other regional growth (for example, in B. • Transportation and Circulation). • Previously Approved Projects The 2013 EIR identified four projects in the vicinity of the project site that had been approved but not yet developed at that time: • Arch Road Industrial Project, located on the south side of Arch Road between Austin and Newcastle Roads. The project consists of light industrial and • warehouse uses on a 63-acre site. This project has been constructed so is part of • the cumulative development scenario. • Archtown Industrial Project, located on an approximately 70-acre site at the • southwest comer of Arch and Newcastle Roads. The project consists of light • • • • •