REPORT TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION
October 18, 2017
FROM: Dan Zack, Assistant Director
Neighborhood Revitalization Section
BY: SOPHIA PAGOULATOS, Planning Manager
Long Range Planning Division
SUBJECT
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Public hearing to consider the adoption of the Southwest Fresno Specific Plan and related Final Program Environmental Impact Report (FPEIR), State Clearinghouse (SHC) # 2017031012. The following applications have been filed by the Fresno City Council and pertain to approximately 3,255 acres in the DA-1 South Development Area:
1. Recommend that the City Council Review and Consider Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR SCH No. 2017031012), apply the Council's independent judgment and analyses to the review, and then certify the PEIR as having been completed in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), based on the Commission's recommendations on the proposed Final Program EIR and comments thereon (see Exhibits N, O and P).
a. Recommend the City Council Adopt an appropriate Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) as required by Public Resources Code Section 21081.6 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15097; and,
b. Recommend the City Council Find that based upon testimony presented by staff, there are significant, unavoidable, environmental impacts which have not been mitigated to a level below significant. Therefore, the City Council should adopt the findings of fact and consider an appropriate statement of overriding considerations.
2. Recommend that the City Council Approve Plan Amendment Application No A-17-13 which proposes to repeal the Edison Community Plan, pertaining to approximately 10,019 acres located in the DA-1 South Development Area (see Exhibit B).
3. Recommend that the City Council Approve Plan Amendment Application No. A-17-14 which proposes to adopt the October 2017 Redline Draft and accompanying technical map changes of the Southwest Fresno Specific Plan (Figure 3-2), ...
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