Plan Orinda Partially Revised Environmental Impact Analysis

Plan Orinda Partially Revised Environmental Impact Analysis

Following the certification of the Plan Orinda Final Environmental Impact Report/Responses to Comments on the Draft EIR (“FEIR”) on January 31, 2023, a petition for writ of mandate was filed by Orindans for Safe Emergency Evacuation, challenging the certification and contending that the Plan Orinda FEIR did not sufficiently analyze adverse impacts to emergency evacuation (Wildfire Impacts WFR-1). Following the decision in Orindans for Safe Emergency Evacuation v. City of Orinda, Contra Costa Superior Court Case No. N23-0579, additional analysis was prepared for Section 4.14, Wildfire, and Section 6, Alternatives. Section 4.14 has been revised to include an additional Wildfire Impact Threshold (WFR-1b) related to substantial increase to emergency evacuation constraints, among other revisions. Additionally, a Supplemental Evacuation Analysis was prepared and is included as Appendix WFR. This Supplemental Evacuation Analysis also analyzed evacuation impacts of the project alternatives. The Alternatives analysis in Section 6 was revised to include this supplemental analysis.

Orinda

Contra Costa

Citywide, 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 Housing and Community Development (HCD), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Energy Commission, California Fish and Game Commission (CDFGC), 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), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Delta Protection Commission, Delta Stewardship Council, Office of Historic Preservation, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Drinking Water, District 4, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality

Residential (total acreage not available)(Units 1700, Acres 1), Commercial (total acreage and employees not available)(Sq. Ft. 30000, Acres 1, Employees 1)

General Plan Update, Specific Plan, Rezone

Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Cumulative Effects, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Transportation, Vegetation, Wildfire