Paseo Adelanto: City Hall and Permanent Supportive Zero-Emission Affordable Housing
Summary
SCH Number
2022050413
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
Paseo Adelanto: City Hall and Permanent Supportive Zero-Emission Affordable Housing
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
5/19/2022
Document Description
Under grant agreement EPC-21-026, the California Energy Commission (CEC) will provide a grant of $1,000,000 to Jamboree Housing Corporation for feasibility studies, building design, and energy analysis activities only.
The purpose of this project is to research and design a mixed-use development that can be home to a new city hall and 50 affordable, permanent supportive housing units serving the community's most disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. This innovative complex will combine advanced renewable energy technologies, cutting-edge sustainable design, construction techniques, green operational practices with a highly innovative municipal partnership and funding model to create a unique mixed-use development that ensures the benefit of sustainable buildings and technologies accrue to disadvantaged populations to whom they are usually inaccessible.
Beneficiaries will include future occupants of this development if built; the City of San Juan Capistrano and investor-owned utility ratepayers. Ratepayer benefits will include greater electricity reliability, lower costs, and increased safety by providing on-site renewable energy and microgrid islandable technology, at no additional cost to low-income housing residents. During power outages and natural disasters, end users will still maintain access to electricity, increasing safety during these events. This design is intended to be a replicable template for developing zero-emission, affordable housing projects across the State.
Contact Information
Name
Molly Mahoney
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Energy Analyst
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
San Juan Capistrano
Counties
Orange
Regions
Southern California
Cross Streets
Del Obispo Street
Zip
92675
Other Location Info
32400 Paseo Adelanto
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, §15262
Reasons for Exemption
The grant agreement will fund feasibility, design, and planning studies for an all-electric, mixed-use development, which has not been approved, adopted, or funded by the CEC, and which will not result in the adoption of a plan that will have a legally binding effect on later activities. This falls within title 14, Cal. Code Regs. tit. 14, § 15262, Feasibility and Planning Studies: The CEC has considered environmental factors.
The grant agreement will fund the design of a mixed-use development project and the improvement of methods for possible use in advanced energy development and microgrid efforts (e.g., planning, architectural, and engineering work). Activities will include information collection, research, design, and energy and emissions analyses. Activities will also include economic analysis, preparation of conceptual drawings and design plans, performance modeling, and construction feasibility analysis.
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, §15061(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
The grant agreement will fund the design of a mixed-use development project and the improvement of methods for possible use in advanced energy development and microgrid efforts (e.g., planning, architectural, and engineering work). Activities will include information collection, research, design, and energy and emissions analyses. Activities will also include economic analysis, preparation of conceptual drawings and design plans, performance modeling, and construction feasibility analysis.
No construction or changes to the physical environment will be funded by the grant or occur during the design and analysis work. The design activities will take place in existing office buildings, and professionals will visit the proposed development site. Therefore, there is no possibility that the activities may have a significant effect on the environment.
The grant agreement is covered by the commonsense exemption that CEQA applies only to projects which have the potential for causing a significant effect on the environment. Where it can be seen with certainty that there is no possibility that the activity in question may have a significant effect on the environment, the activity is not subject to CEQA. This falls within title 14, Cal. Code Regs. tit. 14, § 15061(b)(3), Common Sense Exemption.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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