Item 22 - Resolution Adopting Local CEQA Guidelines Resolution

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Local Guidelines for Implementing the California Environmental Quality Act (2023) ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT 2023 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 7-3 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP 7.04 SPECIAL NOTICE REQUIREMENTS FOR AFFECTED MILITARY AGENCIES CEQA imposes additional requirements to provide notice to potentially affected military agencies when: (a) A “military service” (defined in Section 11.42 of these Local Guidelines) has provided the City with its contact office and address and notified the City of the specific boundaries of a “low-level flight path” (defined in Section 11.37 of these Local Guidelines), “military impact zone” (defined in Section 11.41 of these Local Guidelines), or “special use airspace” (defined in Section 11.67 of these Local Guidelines); and (b) The project meets one of the following criteria: (1) The project is within the boundaries specified pursuant to subsection (a) of this guideline; (2) The project includes a general plan amendment; (3) The project is of statewide, regional, or area-wide significance; or (4) The project relates to a public use airport or certain lands surrounding a public use airport. When a project meets these requirements, the City must provide the military service’s designated contact with any Notice of Preparation, and/or Notice of Availability of Draft EIRs that have been prepared for a project, unless the project involves the remediation of lands contaminated with hazardous wastes and meets certain other requirements. The City must provide the military service with sufficient notice of its intent to certify an EIR to ensure that the military service has no fewer than thirty (30) days to review the document; or forty-five (45) days to review the environmental documents before they are approved if the documents have been submitted to the State Clearinghouse. It should be noted that the effect, or potential effect, a project may have on military activities does not itself constitute an adverse effect on the environment pursuant to CEQA. (Reference: Pub. Resources Code, §§ 21080.4, 21092; Health & Safety Code, §§ 25300, et seq., 25396, 25187; State CEQA Guidelines, § 15082(a).) 7.05 ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROJECT. Under certain circumstances, a project applicant may choose to apply to the Governor of the State of California to have the project certified as an Environmental Leadership Development Project. A project may qualify as an Environmental Leadership Development Project if it is one of the following: (1) A residential, retail, commercial, sports, cultural, entertainment, or recreational use project that meets the following standards: