PC13-158Resolution PC 13-158
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MENIFEE, CALIFORNIA FINDING THAT NO ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW IS REQUIRED
Whereas, on August 22, 2013, CV Communities applied to the City of Menifee for the
approval of a Minor Change to an approved tentative tract map (TR30422) which consisted of a
subdivision of 399 acres into 992 total single-family lots and on October 17, 2013, CV
Communities applied to the City of Menifee for the approval of a Specific Plan Substantial
Conformance Determination to an approved Specific Plan (SP 247, Menifee East) (jointly the
"Project") within the City; and
Whereas, the Minor Change would decrease the total number of single-family lots within
TR30422 as originally approved and the Specific Plan Substantial Conformance Determination
will expedite and further ensure the development of the park designated in Planning Area 18;
and
Whereas, the Minor Change and Specific Plan Substantial Conformance Determination
do not intensify or otherwise change the Project; and
Whereas, the City is the Lead Agency under the California Environmental Quality Act,
Public Resources Code §§ 21000 et seq. ("CEQA"); and
Whereas, the approval of the Minor Change and Specific Plan Substantial Conformance
Determination constitute discretionary approvals which is part of a "project' as that term is
defined in CEQA Guidelines § 15378 and which itself requires review under CEQA; and
Whereas, on June 13, 1995, the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors certified that
Environmental Impact Report (SCH 1989071715), which analyzed the environmental impacts
which would result from the development of the Menifee East Specific Plan, had been prepared
in full compliance with CEQA (the "EIR"); and
Whereas, on February 27, 2003, the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors
approved an Addendum to an Environmental Impact Report (EA 38703), which analyzed the
environmental impacts which would result from the development of the Amendment to the
Menifee East Specific Plan and TR30422 project, had been prepared in full compliance with
CEQA (the "EIR"); and
Whereas, the project analyzed in the original EIR consisted of a total of 1,467 residential
units on the entire 399 acres and the project analyzed in the subsequent Addendum consisted
of a total of 1,158 residential units on 228 acres, commercial land use on 14.3 acres, and
recreation, school, open space and other uses on 157.6 acres; and
Whereas, the project as currently proposed with the Minor Change would reduce the
total number of dwelling units from what was previously analyzed and thus likely result in
reduced impacts compared to those previously analyzed in the original EIR and subsequent
Addendum; and
Whereas, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing on
December 10, 2013, where the public was allowed to comment on the absence of any need for
additional environmental review; and
Resolution PC 13-158
Minor Change No. 2013-168, Specific Plan Substantial Conformance Determination No. 2013-
219 - CEQA
Whereas, the Planning Commission has carefully considered all of the comments
received from the public as well as the information provided by the City's staff regarding
environmental review.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee resolves and
orders as follows:
Section 1. The EIR fully analyzed the environmental impacts of the project as it was
originally approved in 1995 and subsequently analyzed and amended in 2003.
Section 2. The Project will result in similar impacts as those analyzed in the EIR and
Addendum.
Section 3. Neither a subsequent or supplemental EIR is required because the review of the
Project and the EIR shows that:
A. The proposed approval of Minor Change and Specific Plan
Substantial Conformance Determination contains no substantial changes
in the project as originally analyzed requiring major revisions of the EIR
due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a
substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant
effects;
B. No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the
circumstances under which the project as originally analyzed is
undertaken which will require major revisions of the EIR;
C. There is no new information of substantial importance, which was
not known and could not have been known with the exercise of
reasonable diligence, at the time the EIR was certified; and
D. There are no newly feasible, or considerably different, mitigation
measures or alternatives which would substantially reduce one or more
significant effects of the project as originally analyzed but which the
Project proponent declines to adopt.
Section 4. No further environmental review of the Project is required under CEQA and that
the approval of the Minor Change and Specific Plan Substantial Conformance
Determination are sufficiently analyzed by the EIR and subsequent Addendum.
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Resolution PC 13-158
Minor Change No. 2013-168, Specific Plan Substantial Conformance Determination No. 2013-
219 - CEQA
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED
ATTEST:
enni er Allen
Planning Commission Secretary
Approved as to form:
Aff
10th day of December, 2013.
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Scott A. Mann
Mayor
Wallace W. Edgerton
Deputy Mayor
John V. Denver
Councilmember
Thomas Fuhrman
Councilmember
Greg August
Councilmember
29714 Haun Road
Menifee, CA 92586
Phone 951.672.6777
Fax 951.679.3843
www.cityofinenifee.us
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss
CITY OF MENIFEE )
I, Jennifer Allen, Planning Commission Secretary of the City of Menifee, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution No. PC13-158 was duly adopted by
the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee at a meeting thereof held on the
101h day of December, 2013 by the following vote:
Ayes:
Liesemeyer, Matelko, Phillips, Sobek, Thomas
Noes:
None
Absent:
None
Abstain:
None
J nifer Allen, Planning Commission Secretary