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FROM: John Sweeten, CountyCOUNTY
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DATE: March 20, 2001 �= `
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SUBJECT: AB 271 (Canciamilla) - Sponsor
SPECIFIC REQUEST(S) OR RECOMMENDATION(S) & BACKGROUND AND JUSTIFICATION
RECOMMENDATION():
SPONSOR AB 271 (Canciamilla) which would provide for CEQA exemptions for infill
development in an urbanized unincorporated area.
BACKGROUND/REASON(S) FOR RECOMMENDATION(S):
Currently, infill development within an urbanized city limits qualifies for CEQA exemptions. AB
271 (Canciamilla) would extend that exemption to unincorporated urbanized areas as well.
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VOTE OF SUPERVISORS
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ATTESTED March 20 . 2001
JOHN SWEETEN,CLERK OF
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
AND COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR
cc: CAO
Dennis Barry,Community Development
Maureen Toms,Community Development �vA&,Ak.-r DEPUTY
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BILL NUMBER: AB 271 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Canciamilla
FEBRUARY 16, 2001
An act to amend Section 21084 of the Public Resources Code,
relating to environmental quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 271, as introduced, Canciamilla. Environmental quality:
in-fill development.
The existing California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires
a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and
certify the completion of, an environmental impact report on a
project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a
significant effect on the environment, or to adopt a negative
declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect.
Existing law also requires the Office of Planning and Research to
prepare, and the Secretary of the Resources Agency to certify and
adopt, guidelines for the implementation of the act by public
agencies. Existing law also requires the guidelines to include a list
of classes of projects that have been determined not to have a
significant effect on the environments and that are exempt from the
act. Existing guidelines exempt from the act a project characterized
as an in-fill development that, among other things, occurs within
city limits on a project site of no more than 5 acres substantially
surrounded by urban uses.
This bill would require the guidelines to exempt from the act any
proposed development that occurs within an urbanized unincorporated
area on a project site of no more than 5 acres substantially
surrounded by urban uses that meets all other conditions for in-fill
development projects.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 21084 of the Public Resources Code is amended
to read:
21084. (a) The guidelines prepared and adopted pursuant to
Section 21083 shall include a list of classes of projects
•..i;ieh that have been determined. not to have a
significant effect on the environment and wh4!ai—
that shall be exempt from this division. In adopting the
guidelines, the Secretary of the Resources Agency shall make a
finding that the listed classes of projects referred to in this
section do not have a significant effect on the environment.
(b) No project -whish that may result
in damage to scenic resources, including, but not limited to, trees,
historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within
a highway designated as an official state scenic highway, pursuant to
Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 260) of Chapter 2 of Division 1
of the Streets and Highways Code, shall be exempted from this
division pursuant to subdivision (a) . This subdivision does not
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apply to improvements as mitigation for a project for which a
negative declaration has been approved or an environmental impact
report has been certified.
(c) No project located on a site which is included on any list
compiled pursuant to Section 65962.5 of the Government Code shall be
exempted from this division pursuant to subdivision (a) .
(d) The changes made to this section by Chapter 1212 of the
Statutes of 1991 apply only to projects for which applications have
not been deemed complete on or before January 1, 1992, pursuant to
Section 65943 of the Government Code.
(e) No project that may cause a substantial adverse change in the
significance of an historical resource, as specified in Section
21084.1, shall be exempted from this division pursuant to subdivision
(a) .
(f) The exempt classes of projects listed pursuant to subdivision
(a) , that are described as Class 32 in Section 15332 of Title 14 of
the California Code of Regulations, shall include any proposed
development that occurs within city limits or within an urbanized
unincorporated area on a project site of no more than five acres
substantially surrounded by urban uses that meets all other
conditions described in that section.
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