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AGENDA REPORT
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TO: Honorable City Council
FROM: Nelson Miller, Director of Community Development
Prepared By: John Libiez, Principal Planner -
DATE: February 9, 1999 (For 2/17/99 meeting)
SUBJECT: CONSIDER ISSUES RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF
POTENTIAL CHANGES TO MOORPARK HIGHLANDS SPECIFIC PLAN
PROJECT (SPECIFIC PLAN 95 -2 /SPECIFIC PLAN NO. 2,
GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT 95 -2, AND ZONE CHANGE 95 -4),
APPLICANT: MORRISON- FOUNTAINWOOD- AGOURA.
BACKGROUND
During discussion of issues and concerns related to Specific
Plan No. 2 (Moorpark Highlands Specific Plan) City Council
identified several potential revisions to the proposed project.
The applicant is preparing an alternative for presentation at
the March 3, 1999, City Council meeting.
DISCUSSION
Included in the concerns cited by City Council was a question
related to the effect changes to the project may have upon the
EIR.
Section 15088.5 of the California Environmental Quality Act
(CEQA) Guidelines requires lead agencies to recirculate an
environmental impact report with appropriate notice whenever new
information is added to an EIR after the original notice but
prior to certification of the EIR. "New information" includes
such things as: 1)creating a new impact or more severe impact
from a mitigation measure proposed to be implemented; 2)
substantial increase in severity of an impact would occur unless
mitigation measures are adopted to reduce the impact to a level
of insignificance; 3) a project proponent refuses to adopt a
mitigation measure or project alternative that could reduce
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impacts of the project; or, 4) the draft EIR is so fundamentally
and basically inadequate and conclusory in nature that
meaningful public review and comment were precluded.
Considering the types of changes City Council has suggested for
the project to the applicant such as; relocation of some
planning area uses, circulation changes affecting non - General
Plan project only streets, reduction or reallocation of density,
reduction in total dwelling units within the project, or the
shifting of the school site or the active park open space use,
it appears no new information or impacts of significance that
would require recirculation of the EIR would occur. This will
need to be further reviewed after submittal of any alternatives
and a determination that there are no new significant impacts or
changes which require recirculation should be included in the
Council's consideration of any project alternatives.
STAFF RECOMENDATION
Receive and file report.
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