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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />11. DEFINITIONS <br />Whenever the following terms are used in these Local Guidelines, they shall have the <br />following meaning unless otherwise expressly defined: <br />11.01 means a person engaged in agriculture, which includes <br />farming in all its branches, and, among other things, includes: (1) the cultivation and <br />tillage of the soil, (2) dairying, (3) the production, cultivation, growing, and <br />harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities, (4) the raising of <br />livestock, bees, furbearing animals, or poultry, and (5) any practices (including any <br />forestry or lumbering operations) performed by a farmer or on a farm as an incident <br />to or in conjunction with such farming operations, including preparation for market <br />and delivery to storage or to market or to carriers for transportation to market. <br />This definition does not include any person covered by the National Labor Relations <br />Act as agricultural employees pursuant to Section 2(3) of the Labor Management <br />Relations Act (Section 152(3), Title 29, United States Code) and Section 3(f) of the <br />Fair Labor Standards Act (Section 203(f), Title 29, United States Code). This <br />definition does not apply to employees who perform work to be done at the site of the <br />construction, alteration, painting, or repair of a building, structure, or other work (as <br />these terms have been construed under Section 8(e) of the Labor Management <br />Relations Act, 29 United States Code Section 158(e)) or logging or timber-clearing <br />operations in initial preparation of land for farming, or who does land leveling or only <br />include only major land moving operations changing the contour of the land, but shall <br />not include annual or seasonal tillage or preparation of land for cultivation. (State <br />CEQA Guidelines Section 15191(a).) <br />11.02 means a person who proposes to carry out a project that requires a lease, <br />permit, license, certificate, or other entitlement for use, or requires financial aid from <br />one or more public agencies when applying for governmental approval or assistance. <br />11.03 means a decision by the decision-making body or other authorized body <br />or officer of the City which commits the City to a definite course of action with <br />regard to a particular project. With regard to any project to be undertaken directly by <br />the City, approval shall be deemed to occur on the date when the decision-making <br />body adopts a motion or resolution determining to proceed with the project, which in <br />no event shall be later than the date of adoption of plans and specifications. As to <br />private projects, approval shall be deemed to have occurred upon the earliest <br />commitment to provide service or the issuance by the City of a discretionary contract, <br />subsidy, or other form of financial assistance, lease, permit, license, certificate, or <br />other entitlement for use of the project. The mere acquisition of land by the City shall <br />not, in and of itself, be deemed to constitute approval of a project. <br />For purposes of these Local Guidelines, all environmental documents must be <br />completed as of the time of project approval. <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 11-1 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br /> <br />