Environmental Assessment No. 2024-14 - General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 and Ordinance No. 2025-001 - (Housing Element Implementation & Amendments

Environmental Assessment No. 2024-14 - General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 and Ordinance No. 2025-001 - (Housing Element Implementation & Amendments

[Continued Project Title]: …[ to the Official Zoning Map Project)] Environmental Assessment No. 2024-14 assesses the environmental effects of General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 and Rezone Application No. 2024-02 pertaining to the implementation of the 2023-2031 City of Reedley Housing Element (GPA 2022-01) and Amendments to the Official Zoning Map. General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 and Rezone Application No. 2024-02 are being assessed concurrently as one Addendum because implementation of Housing Element Program 15 includes both General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 and Rezone Application No. 2024-02. The Official Zoning Map of the City of Reedley is proposed to be updated, cleaned up, and reformatted in order to implement the Comprehensive Reedley Zoning Code Update (adopted Ordinance No. 2024-001). The City of Reedley is also required to implement Program 15 in the adopted City of Reedley 2023-2031 Housing Element which requires the City to amend its General Plan Land Use Map and Official Zoning Map to provide adequate sites for at least 586 lower-income units. The City of Reedley completed its Housing Element Rezones (adopted General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-02 and Ordinance No. 2025-001), but further map cleanup is proposed to implement Program 15 through the following entitlement applications: General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-03 pertains to a single General Plan Amendment Application reclassifying certain parcels to meet State requirements implemented by the City of Reedley 2023-2031 Housing Element and to reflect adopted General Plan Amendment Application No. 2024-02. The Draft General Plan Map is provided as Exhibit A attached to Planning Commission Resolution No. 2024-15. Rezone Application No. 2024-02 pertains to an amendment to the Official Zoning Map of the City of Reedley to be consistent with adopted Ordinance No. 2024-001 (Reedley Zoning Code Update), adopted Ordinance No. 2025-001 (Housing Element Rezones), and to meet State requirements implemented by the City of Reedley 2023-2031 Housing Element. Changes to the map include renaming certain zone districts, changing the legend color of the zone districts, and map cleanup. The Draft Official Zoning Map is provided as Exhibit B attached to Planning Commission Resolution No. 2024-15. The Addendum has been prepared in accordance with the relevant provisions of CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines as implemented by the City of Reedley. According to Section 15164(a) of the CEQA Guidelines, “The lead agency or responsible agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred.” The changes that are being proposed with the project are minor in the sense that they would not create potentially significant environmental impacts in addition to those already identified in the 2030 General Plan EIR. The project would also not substantially increase the magnitude or severity of impacts that were previously identified. This Addendum does not require public circulation because it does not provide significant new information that changes the 2030 General Plan EIR in a way that deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to comment upon a substantial adverse environmental effect of the Project or a feasible way to mitigate or avoid such an effect. The City of Reedley shall consider this Addendum to the 2030 General Plan EIR prior to making a decision on the project. The City of Reedley, as the Lead Agency, approved the above described project and made the following determinations about the above described project: 1. On February 25, 2014, the City Council certified the Program Environmental Impact Report (SCH No. 2010031106), prepared for General Plan Amendment No. 2012-002, which was prepared pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). 2. The approved project would have no new effects that were not identified or examined in the Program EIR (SCH No. 2010031106). 3. No new effects could occur beyond those identified and analyzed in the Program EIR (SCH No. 2010031106). 4. No new mitigation measures would be required beyond those set forth in the Program EIR (SCH No. 2010031106). 5. An Addendum to the Program EIR shall prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA. 6. Findings were made pursuant to CEQA Section 15168(c)(2). The Addendum has determined that the changes within the Proposed Project would not trigger any of the conditions listed in Sections 15162 and 15164 of the CEQA Guidelines, requiring preparation of a subsequent or supplemental environmental impact report or negative declaration. The Proposed Project does not introduce new significant environmental effects, substantially increase the severity of previously identified significant environmental effects, or show that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible. Thus, this Addendum satisfies the requirements of CEQA Guidelines sections 15162 and 15164.

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