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PC20-523RESOLUTION NO. PC20-523 A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MENIFEE, CALIFORNIA FINDING THAT NO ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW IS REQUIRED FOR THE BUNDY CANYON ROAD/SCOTT ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECT AND ADOPTING AN ADDENDUM TO ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT STATE CLEARING HOUSE NUMBER 2007051156 WHEREAS, in 2014 the City of Wildomar prepared and certified the Environmental Impact Report to address potentially significant environmental impacts resulting from the Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road improvements. The EIR covered not only the portion of the project in Wildomar but also the segment of the Bundy Canyon/Scott Road in the City of Menifee; and WHEREAS, the proposed Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road widening from Haun Road to Sunset Avenue Project includes widening the existing two-lane road to a five-lane corridor with a 55 mph Design Speed; and WHEREAS, the 2013 City of Menifee General Plan Circulation Element designates Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road as an Urban Arterial that will ultimately provide six divided lanes of traffic (i.e., three in each direction) within a 152-foot (ft) ROW; and WHEREAS, the City of Wildomar and the City of Menifee propose to construct an interim alignment to reduce impacts to private properties within the project corridor; and WHEREAS, the project proposes to improve the roadway to an interim “urban arterial” configuration of 110’ ROW with 82’ curb-to-curb that includes two lanes each direction and a 14’ striped median. The interim configuration would also include a 10’ bike lane on both the north and south sides of the roadway; and WHEREAS, additional project improvements include drainage upgrades, higher capacity stream/culvert crossings and water quality elements such as infiltration basins and bio-swales; and WHEREAS, the interim Project does not intensify in scope the original 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 interim project improvements were determined to be consistent with the previously analyzed project (Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road improvements) and thus likely result in similar or reduced impacts compared to those previously analyzed in the original EIR; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the requirements of the CEQA, an addendum has been prepared to document the proposed changes from the original EIR; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission reviewed the Addendum on December 9, 2020, where the public was allowed to comment on the absence of any need for additional environmental review; and DocuSign Envelope ID: C0EDF4DF-17FC-40A3-B4FE-03B3C042A2DF Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road improvements 2 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, BE IT RESOLVED that the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee, California hereby makes the following findings as established by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): Section 1. The City of Wildomar had reviewed the original EIR and found that those documents fully analyzed the environmental impacts of the project as it was originally approved in 2014. Section 2. The Project will result in similar or reduced impacts as those analyzed in the EIR and will not result in any new or increased impacts on the environment. Section 3. CEQA authorizes a Lead or Responsible Agency to prepare an Addendum to a previously certified EIR or adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration or Negative Declaration if some changes or additions are necessary to a previously analyzed project and none of the conditions described in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 requiring the preparation of a Subsequent EIR or CEQA Guidelines Section 15164 requiring the preparation of a Supplement to an EIR are met. 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 or Mitigated Negative Declaration (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 EIR 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 EIR 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 EIR was adopted, shows any of the following: a.The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; b.Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; DocuSign Envelope ID: C0EDF4DF-17FC-40A3-B4FE-03B3C042A2DF Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road improvements 3 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 EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. B. No substantial changes are proposed in the Project and there are no substantial changes in the circumstances under which the project will be undertaken, that will require major revisions to the EIR, due to the involvement of significant new environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. Also, there is no new information of substantial importance as that term is used in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3). C. The City of Menifee (project proponent) does not refuse to implement any mitigation measures that were previously infeasible but are now feasible, or any other mitigation measures, including mitigation measures considerably different from those in the EIR, that would be necessary to substantially reduce significant environmental impacts.; D. The City of Menifee is required to comply with the applicable mitigation measures identified in the EIR (included in each CEQA issue discussion herein). 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 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. In summary, no substantial changes are proposed in the project and there are no substantial changes in the circumstances under which the project will be undertaken that will require major revisions to the previous EIR due to the involvement of significant new environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. Also, there is no "new information of substantial importance" as that term is used in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3). Therefore, the previously certified EIR is adequate upon completion of an Addendum. DocuSign Envelope ID: C0EDF4DF-17FC-40A3-B4FE-03B3C042A2DF Bundy Canyon Road/Scott Road improvements 4 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this the 9th day of December, 2020: _________________________ Randy Madrid, Chairman Attest: ___________________________ Stephanie Roseen, Deputy City Clerk Approved as to form: ______________________________ Thai Viet Phan, Assistant City Attorney DocuSign Envelope ID: C0EDF4DF-17FC-40A3-B4FE-03B3C042A2DF STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss CITY OF MENIFEE ) I, Stephanie Roseen, Deputy City Clerk of the City of Menifee, do hereby certify that the foregoing Planning Commission Resolution No. PC20-523 was duly adopted by the Planning Commission of the City of Menifee at a meeting thereof held on the 9th day of December 2020 by the following vote: Ayes: Noes: Absent: Abstain: _______________________________ Stephanie Roseen, CMC Deputy City Clerk Karwin, Phillips, Thomas, Diederich, Madrid None None None DocuSign Envelope ID: C0EDF4DF-17FC-40A3-B4FE-03B3C042A2DF