75D - PH - VMT AND CEQA GUIDELINES

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Local Guidelines for Implementing the California Environmental Ouality Act (2019) DERNMONS definition, the Lead Agency shall consider the significance of the resource to a California Native American tribe. A cultural landscape that meets the criteria set forth above is a tribal cultural resource to the extent that the landscape is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape. A historic resource described in Public Resources Code Section 21084.1, a unique archaeological resource as defined in subdivision (g) of Public Resources Code Section 21083.2, or a "nonunique archaeological resource" as defined in subdivision (h) of Public Resources Code Section 21083.2 may also be a tribal cultural resource if it conforms with the criteria of Tribal cultural resources. 11.78 "Trustee Agency" means a State agency having jurisdiction by law over natural resources affected by a project which are held in trust for the people of the State of California. Trustee Agencies may include, but are not limited to, the following: (a) The California Department of Fish and Wildlife ("DFW") with regard to the fish and wildlife of the state, designated rare or endangered native plants, and game refuges, ecological reserves, and other areas administered by DFW; (b) The State Lands Commission with regard to state owned "sovereign" lands such as the beds of navigable waters and state school lands; (c) The State Department of Parks and Recreation with regard to units of the State Park System; (d) The University of California with regard to sites within the Natural Land and Water Reserve System; and/or (e) The State Water Resources Control Board with respect to surface waters. 11.79 "Urban Growth Boundary" means a provision of a locally adopted general plan that allows urban uses on one side of the boundary and prohibits urban uses on the other side of the boundary. 11.80 "Urbanized Area" means either of the following: (1) An incorporated city that either by itself or in combination with two contiguous incorporated cities has a population of at least one hundred thousand (100,000) persons; (2) An unincorporated area that meets both of the following requirements: (a) The unincorporated area is either: (i) completely surrounded by one or more incorporated cities, has a population of at least 100,000 persons either by itself or in combination with the surrounding incorporated city or cities, and has a population density that at least equals the population density of the surrounding city or cities; or 2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines ©Best Best & Krieger LLP 75D-177