Highway 116/West Cotati Avenue Intersection Safety Improvements Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024090793
Public Agency
City of Cotati
Document Title
Highway 116/West Cotati Avenue Intersection Safety Improvements Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
9/19/2024
Document Description
The Project proposes improvements to State Route 116 Gravenstein Highway (SR 116) to provide road safety and traffic management including additional turn lanes, bike and pedestrian facilities, and a raised median from Redwood Drive to approximately 500 feet west of Alder Avenue. The Project includes the realignment of West Cotati Avenue, signalization, addition of dedicated turn lanes, construction of a Class 1 bike and pedestrian path, and associated pedestrian/bike safety upgrades.
Contact Information
Name
Craig Scott
Agency Name
City of Cotati
Job Title
Public Works Directory/City Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Cotati
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
Gravenstein Highway and W. Cotati Avenue
Zip
94931
Total Acres
1.3
Parcel #
144-050-004, -005, -009, 046-286-018, -019, 144-100-ROW, 144-110-ROW, 999-999-ROW
State Highways
101, SR 116
Railways
SMART Railway
Airports
N/A
Schools
Rancho Bodega School, John Reed Elementary
Waterways
Gossage Creek, Laguna de Santa Rosa, Copeland Creek
Other Location Info
Approximately 1,900 linear feet along State Route 116/Gravenstein Highway between Redwood Drive and 500 feet west of Alder Avenue and West Cotati Avenue between Gillman Road and Highway 116 in the City of Cotati, Sonoma County, California.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
General Plan Consistency Exemption {Sec.15183}
Reasons for Exemption
The Project implements the General Plan and is consistent with the general plan policies for which an EIR was certified. The analysis relies upon the program level analysis prepared for the 2013 City of Cotati General Plan and its EIR (SCH No. 2013082037), which was certified in 2015. The project is identified in the General Plan and analyzed in the General Plan EIR. The project would not result in substantial changes nor does it involve new information that would warrant further environmental review because the level of development proposed is within the development assumptions analyzed in the program level EIR for the General Plan, and furthermore, the project does not contain elements that are peculiar to the project or project site that would result in new or more severe environmental impacts relative to the General Plan EIR. All adopted mitigating General Plan policies and mitigation measures identified in the 2013 General Plan EIR that apply to the Project are imposed as environmental conditions of approval. In addition, the project is required to comply with applicable conditions of approval from other agency permits. With implementation of identified conditions of approval and uniformly applied standards, the project would not result in a substantial increase in the severity or significant impacts that were previously identified in the program level EIR, nor would the project introduce any new significant impacts that were not previously identified. There would be no additional environmental impacts beyond those analyzed in the General Plan EIR, and therefore the project is exempt pursuant to California Public Resources Code Section 21083.3 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15183.
County Clerk
Sonoma
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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