Item 41 - Amendment Application No. 2022-01 and Appeal Nos. 2022-01 and 2022-02

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Guidelines section 15183(i)(2). Development density standards can include the number of dwelling units per acre, the number of people in a given area, floor area ratio (FAR), and other measures of building intensity, building height, size limitations, and use restrictions. (C) The GPU identifies that the Interim Development Standard for the FLEX-3 area is M1. The M1 zone provides for a variety of light industrial uses, including warehousing, manufacture, assembly, machine shops, and wholesale businesses. The Project would result in a FAR of 0.42, which is within the projections of the GPU EIR, which evaluated a density of 3.0 FAR on the site. The GPU EIR adequately anticipated and analyzed the impacts of this Project and identified applicable mitigation measures necessary to reduce impacts of the Project, and the Project implements the applicable mitigation measures. (D) Specifically, the Project qualifies for the exemption because the following findings can be made: 1. The Project is consistent with the development density established by existing zoning, community plan or general plan policies for which an EIR was certified. The Project would result in a FAR of 0.42, which is less than the maximum FAR of 3.0 allowable in the FLEX-3 designated area, which is the development density established by the GPU and analyzed in the GPU EIR. The Project site has an Interim Development Standard of M-1 (light Industrial zone). The M-1 zone does not have density requirements. 2. There are no Project specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or its site, and which the GPU EIR failed to analyze as significant effects. The subject property is similar to other properties in the area, including its land use designation and zoning. The property does not support any peculiar environmental features, and the Project would not result in any peculiar effects. In addition, as explained further in the prepared Exemption Checklist, project impacts were adequately analyzed by the GPU EIR; and as detailed in the GPU EIR, development projects pursuant to the GPU, such as the proposed Project, could result in potentially significant impacts to air quality, cultural resources, paleontological resources, noise, and tribal cultural resources. However, applicable mitigation measures specified within the GPU EIR would reduce potential impacts to a less than significant level. 3. There are no potentially significant off -site and/or cumulative impacts which the GPU EIR failed to evaluate. The Project is consistent with the density and use characteristics of the development considered by the GPU EIR and would represent a small part of the growth that was forecast for build -out of the GPU. The GPU EIR considered the incremental impacts of the Project, and as explained further in the prepared Exemption Checklist, no potentially significant off -site or cumulative impacts have been identified which were not previously evaluated. 4. There is no substantial new information which results in more severe impacts than anticipated by the GPU EIR. As explained in the prepared Exemption Ordinance No. NS-XXXX Page 4 of 6