PC15-216Resolution PC 15-216
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MENIFEE, CALIFORNIA FINDING THAT NO ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW IS REQUIRED FOR MINOR CHANGE NO. 2015-028 (MINOR
CHANGE TO TENTATIVE TRACT MAP NO. 32025)
Whereas, on February 9, 2015, Brookfield Residential applied to the City of Menifee for
the approval of a Minor Change to an approved tentative tract map (TR32025) which consisted
of a subdivision of 130 acres into 198 total single-family lots; and
Whereas, the Minor Change would reduce the grading, specifically, reducing the amount
of cut and impacts to the hillside along with reduction in air quality impacts and noise impacts
resulting from blasting, within TR32025 as originally approved; and
Whereas, the Minor Change does 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 constitutes a discretionary approval 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 May 11, 1999, the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors certified that
Environmental Impact Report (SCH 93082011), which analyzed the environmental impacts
which would result from the development of the Canyon Cove Specific Plan, had been prepared
in full compliance with CEQA (the "EIR"); and
Whereas, on April 4, 2006, the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors approved an
Addendum to an Environmental Impact Report (EA 39396), which analyzed the environmental
impacts which would result from the development of the Substantial Conformance to the
Canyon Cove Specific Plan and TR32025 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 495 residential
units on the entire 130 acres and the project analyzed in the subsequent Addendum consisted
of a total of 198 residential units on 130 acres; and
Whereas, the project as currently proposed with the Minor Change would reduce the
grading 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 June
10, 2015, where the public was allowed to comment on the absence of any need for additional
environmental review: and
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.
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NOW, THEREFORE, the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee hereby makes the
following findings as established by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA):
Section 1. The Planning Commission has reviewed the EIR and Addendum and finds that
those documents fully analyzed the environmental impacts of the project as it
was originally approved in 1999 and subsequently analyzed and amended in
2006.
Section 2. The Project will result in similar impacts as those analyzed in the EIR and
Addendum.
Section 3, A. Substantial evidence supports the conclusion that no further environmental
review is required. The proposed modifications would not prompt the need for a
subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 of the CEQA Guidelines which
mandates the preparation of the same, when:
1) Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major
revisions of the previous MND due to the involvement of new significant
environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously
identified significant effects;
2) Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the
project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous MND
due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a
substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects;
or
3) 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 previous MND was adopted, shows any of the following:
a. The project will have one or more significant effects not
discussed in the previous MND;
b. Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more
severe than shown in the previous MND;
c. Mitigation measures or alternative previously found not to be
feasible would in fact be feasible, and would substantially reduce one or
more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to
adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or
d. Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably
different from those analyzed in the previous MND would substantially
reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project
proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative.
B. The modified project's overall development is essentially equivalent to what
was evaluated in the adopted EIR and Addendum to the EIR for the original
project. The proposed modifications would entail adjustments to grading,
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elevations and interior circulation. These modifications would not entail
substantial changes to the original project.
C. The proposed approval of the Minor Change contains no substantial changes
in the project as originally analyzed requiring major revisions of the EIR, including
the Addendum to the EIR, due to the involvement of new significant
environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously
identified significant effects;
D. 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, including the Addendum to the EIR;
E. 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 or Addendum to the EIR was certified; and
F. 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 is sufficiently analyzed by the EIR and
subsequent Addendum.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this the 10'" day of June, 2015.
Chairman
Attest:
nnifer Allen, Deputy City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Ajit Thind, Assistant City Attorney
Scott A. Mann
Mayor
John V. Denver
Mayor Pro Tern
Wallace W. Edgerton
Councilmember
Greg August
Councilmember
Matthew Liesemeyer
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. PC15-216 was duly adopted by
the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee at a meeting thereof held on the
10'h day of June, 2015 by the following vote:
Ayes:
Doty, Phillips, Karwin, Sobek, Thomas
Noes:
None
Absent:
None
Abstain:
None
JeOifeFAllen, Deputy City Clerk