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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />should be carried out. Common examples of ministerial permits include automobile <br />registrations, dog licenses, and marriage licenses. A building permit is ministerial if <br />the ordinance requiring the permit limits the public official to determining whether <br />the zoning allows the structure to be built in the requested location, the structure <br />would meet the strength requirements in the Uniform Building Code, and the <br />applicant has paid his fee. (Public Resources Code Section 21080(b)(1).) <br />11.44 gative Declaration prepared <br />for a Project when the Initial Study has identified potentially significant effects on the <br />environment, but: (1) revisions in the project plans or proposals made, or agreed to, <br />by the applicant before the proposed Negative Declaration and Initial Study are <br />released for public review would avoid the effects or mitigate the effects to a point <br />where clearly no significant effect on the environment would occur, and (2) there is <br />no substantial evidence in light of the whole record before the public agency that the <br />project, as revised, may have a significant effect on the environment. <br />11.45 includes avoiding the environmental impact altogether by not taking a <br />certain action or parts of an action, minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or <br />magnitude of the action and its implementation, rectifying the impact by repairing, <br />rehabilitating or restoring the impacted environment, reducing or eliminating the <br />impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the <br />action, or compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources <br />or environments, including through permanent protection of such resources in the <br />form of conservation easements. <br />11.46 ement by the City briefly <br />describing the reasons that a proposed project, not exempt from CEQA, will not have <br />a significant effect on the environment and, therefore, does not require the preparation <br />of an EIR. <br />11.47 led with the Office of Planning and <br />Research by the City when it is the Lead Agency as soon as it has completed a Draft <br />EIR and is prepared to send out copies for review. <br />11.48 City when it <br />approves or determines to carry out a project which is subject to the requirements of <br />CEQA. <br />11.49 City when it <br />has approved or determined to carry out a project, and it has determined that the <br />project is exempt from the requirements of CEQA. Such a notice may also be filed <br />by an applicant where such a determination has been made by a public agency which <br />must approve the project. <br />11.50 <br />Responsible Agencies, Trustee Agencies, the Office of Planning and Research, and <br />involved federal agencies that the Lead Agency plans to prepare an EIR for a project. <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 11-9 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br /> <br />