PC15-240Resolution PC 15-240
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MENIFEE, CALIFORNIA FINDING THAT NO ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL
REVIEW IS REQUIRED FOR MINOR CHANGE NO. 2015-059 (MINOR
CHANGE TO TENTATIVE TRACT MAP NO. 29777) TALAVERA
Whereas, on March 16, 2015, TTLC Talavera applied to the City of Menifee for the
approval of a Minor Change to an approved tentative tract map (TR29777) which consisted of a
subdivision of 63.48 acres into 173 total single-family lots; and
Whereas, the Minor Change would entail adjustments to phasing, minor layout changes
and changes to the conditions of approval for TR29777 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 17, 2005, the County of Riverside Board of Supervisors adopted a
Mitigated Negative Declaration (Environmental Assessment No. 38589), which analyzed the
environmental impacts which would result from the development of the project, and which had
been prepared in full compliance with CEQA (the "MND"); and
Whereas, the project analyzed in the original MND consisted of a total of 173 residential
units on the entire 63.48 acres; and
Whereas, the project as currently proposed with the Minor Change would entail
adjustments to phasing, minor layout changes and changes to the conditions of approval and;
therefore, the proposed project is consistent with the project previously analyzed and thus likely
result in similar impacts compared to those previously analyzed in the original MND; and
Whereas, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing on
November 23, 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.
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
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Section 2. The Project will result in similar impacts as those analyzed in the MND.
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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 MND 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 MND for the original project. The proposed
modifications would entail adjustments to phasing, minor layout changes and
changes to the conditions of approval. 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 MND due to
the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase
in the severity of previously identified significant effects;
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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 MND;
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 MND or was adopted; 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 MND.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this the; da f November, 2015.
Chris Thomas, Chairman
Attest:
ZWN Allen, Deputy City Clerk
Approved as to form:
Ajit Thind, Assistant City Attorney
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Scott A. Mann
Mayor
John V. Denver
Mayor Pro Tem
Greg August
Councilmember
Matthew Liesemeyer
Councilmember
Vacant
Councilmember
District 3
29714 Haun Road
Menifee, CA 92586
Phone 951.672.6777
Fax 951.679.3843
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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. PC15-240 was duly adopted by the Planning
Commission of the City of Menifee at a meeting thereof held
on the 23rd day of November, 2015 by the following vote:
Ayes:
Doty, Phillips, Karwin, Sobek, Thomas
Noes:
None
Absent:
None
Abstain:
done
ifer Allen, Deputy City Clerk