South Central Fresno

District Board Approved CERP

• CERP:
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• CERP Documents:
• Appendix A: Community Outreach Materials
• Appendix B: Steering Committee Charter
• Appendix C: Source Apportionment and Community Inventories
• Appendix D: Public Resource: Existing Control of Air Pollution Sources of Concern to the Community
• Appendix E: Facility Risk Reduction Audits Under AB 2588: Facility Reassessment Status
• Appendix F: Enforcement Plan Attachments
• Appendix G: Health Impacts of Air Pollution
• Appendix H: Comment Letters
• Appendix I: Comments and Responses

Emissions Sources

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Selected community profile

The community of Fresno is the largest metropolitan area in the San Joaquin Valley, the fifth largest city in California, and is the largest inland city in California. The current estimated population for Fresno is over 530,000. A number of heavily trafficked freeways transverse through the City of Fresno, including highways 99, 41, 180, and 168, contributing a significant amount to the mobile source emissions in the community. In addition to the area-wide sources of pollution, the large population in the area also contributes to emissions from a variety of consumer products. The southwest portion of Fresno also includes a number of industrial sources of emissions. Specifically, South Central Fresno is a densely populated community within the City of Fresno, and is downwind of emissions from the northern portion of Fresno. This community also includes the major roadways of Highways 180 and 41, and their interchange. In addition, emissions reductions in this southern community of Fresno will improve air quality in other communities and cities downwind from the Fresno urban area. This defined community in Fresno also includes the disadvantaged areas of Calwa and Malaga.

This community is geographically bounded by McKinley Avenue to the north, Chestnut Avenue to the east, American Avenue to the south, and includes the community of Malaga and its surrounding industrial area to the southeast. The western portion of the boundary ranges from Nielsen and Brawley Avenues in the northwest to Hwy 41 and American Avenue in the southwest, which incorporates residential and industrial communities along Hwy 99 and west of Hwy 41 such as the Industrial Triangle and parts of West Fresno. The South Central Fresno community also includes downtown Fresno, Chinatown, Roeding Park, and encompasses multiple hospitals, schools, small businesses, and densely populated residential areas. The total population in this South Central Fresno community is estimated to be around 130,000.

The South Central Fresno community is impacted across a number of health indicators, as summarized in the CalEnviroScreen tool.  The South Central Fresno community includes high average percentiles among its census tracts within the majority of indicators, with many averages exceeding the 90^th percentile for the state. Specifically, the average Overall CalEnviroScreen Score and Population Characteristics values are both above the 97th percentile. It should be noted that this community includes the census tract with the highest Population Characteristics score in the entire state, which represents a number of health and socioeconomic factors (asthma, cardiovascular disease, low birth weight, educational attainment, housing burdened low-income households, linguistic isolation, poverty, and unemployment). This community includes census tracts with health indicators that exceed the 97th percentile in a majority of the listed categories, clearly indicating that this community includes areas heavily impacted by environmental challenges.

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