Amendment to the 2018 Long Range Development Plan to Address Impacts on Crotch's Bumble Bee and the West Village Open Space Improvements Project

Amendment to the 2018 Long Range Development Plan to Address Impacts on Crotch's Bumble Bee and the West Village Open Space Improvements Project

Crotch's bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) was designated as a candidate for listing as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act by the California Fish and Game Commission on 9/30/22, which was after certification of the UC Davis 2018 Long Range Development Plan (2018 LRDP) environmental impact report (EIR) (State Clearinghouse No. 2017012008). In the context of subsequent environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this is considered new information of substantial importance. The potential take of Crotch's bumble bee due to the implementation of projects on the UC Davis campus as contemplated in the 2018 LRDP and evaluated in the 2018 LRDP EIR, has been identified as a potential new significant impact due to new information. UC Davis intends to adopt mitigation measures included in the Initial study, and with the measures in place, the effects to Crotch's bumble bee from implementation of the 2018 LRDP will be mitigated to the point where clearly no significant effects on this species will occur. Therefore, UC Davis prepared a Subsequent MND, supported by an Initial Study (IS) (Subsequent IS/MND), to evaluate an Amendment to the 2018 LRDP to Address Impacts on Crotch's Bumble Bee due to the implementation of projects on the UC Davis campus. In addition, the West Village Open Space Improvements Project currently proposed on the UC Davis campus (Project), is evaluated and found to be within the scope of the 2018 LRDP EIR, as amended to include mitigation measures addressing Crotch's bumble bee.

Davis

Solano, Yolo

Northern California

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Education, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Department of General Services (DGS), Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)

California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)

Other (Open Space)

Redevelopment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire