5960 North Canoga Avenue

2025040634

City of Los Angeles

NOE - Notice of Exemption

4/11/2025

4/11/2025

Shane Strunk

City of Los Angeles / Department of City Planning

Planning Assistant

Lead/Public Agency

200 N Spring st
Los Angeles, CA 90012

(213) 675-6022

shane.strunk@lacity.org

Steve Rawlings

Rawling Consulting

Representative

Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project

26023 Jefferson Avenue, CA
Murrieta, CA 92562

(951) 667-5152

ser@rawlingspm.com

34°10'44"N 118°35'49.6"W

5960 Canoga Ave, Woodland Hills, CA 91367 and oxnard st

91367

Categorical Exemption

Section 15301, Class 1

The City of Los Angeles determined based on the whole of the administrative record, that substantial evidence supports that the Project is exempt from CEQA pursuant to CEQA Guidelines, Section 15301, Class 1 and none of the exceptions to a categorical exemption pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2 applies. The project was found to be exempt based on the following discussion. Class 1 consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. The applicant is requesting to serve alcohol for off-site consumption. There are no proposed construction or improvements, and the use is negligibly expanded. The City has further considered whether the proposed project is subject to any of the six exceptions (listed as a-f) set forth in State CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2, that would prohibit the use of any categorical exemption. None of the exceptions are triggered for the reasons discussed as follows. A. Location. Classes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 11 are qualified by consideration of where the project is to be located. A project that is ordinarily insignificant in its effect on the environment may in a particularly sensitive environment be significant. Therefore, these classes may not be utilized where the project may impact on an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies. The case does not use a CEQA exemption that would trigger review of this exception. ZIMAS shows that the subject site is not located in a Coastal Zone, Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, Flood Zone, Watercourse, Hazardous Waste/Border Zone, Methane Hazard Site, High Wind Velocity Area, or Special Grading Area (BOE Basic Grid Map A- 13372). There are no known oil wells on site. The subject site is located within an Urban Agricultural Incentive Zone, but no known agricultural uses are proposed herein. Additionally, ZIMAS shows the nearest fault is the Malibu Coast Fault, located 12.9 kilometers from the subject site. The site is not located within an Alquist-Priolo Fault Zone or area of Landslide, Preliminary Fault Rupture, or Tsunami Inundation. The site is within a Liquefaction area. While the liquefaction area is observed, the project will not make significant changes to the physical form so the liquefaction risk will not increase. The project is not located on or near an environmental resource that is precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to federal, state or local law. Therefore, the environment is not particularly sensitive, and this exception is not triggered. Cumulative Impact. The exception applies when, although a particular project may not have a significant impact, the impact of successive projects, of the same type, in the same place, over time is significant. The applicant is requesting to sell beer and wine for off-site consumption. As shown on ZIMAS, within 500 feet of the subject site one case of the same type (ZA-2011-2515-CUB) has been granted since 2010, which was the authorization for on-site beer and wine sale for a restaurant located at 6020 Canoga Avenue. Because one case of the same type was found within 500 feet of the subject site (granted in 2011), the proposed project will not result in significant cumulative impacts from successive projects of the same type in the same place. C. Significant Effect Due to Unusual Circumstances. This exception applies when, although the project may otherwise be exempt, there is a reasonable possibility that the project will have a significant effect due to unusual circumstances. The subject site is a level, square-shaped lot with a designated General Plan Land Use designation of Regional Center Commercial and is zoned (WC)DOWNTOWN-SN. The lot is located within an Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone but is designated Urban and Builtup. Per ZIMAS, the site is located 12.9 kilometers from the Malibu Coast Fault. The site is not located within a Flood Zone, Hazardous Waste/Border Zone Property, High Wind Velocity Area, BOE Special Grading Area, Oil Well Area, or Alquist-Priolo Fault Zone. The site is within a Liquefaction area, but this project will not have any effect on liquefaction risk since no new construction is proposed herein. Thus, the project does not involve unusual circumstances which would result in significant impacts. D. Scenic Highways. This exception applies when, although the project may otherwise be exempt, there may be damage to scenic resources, including but not limited to, trees, historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway. Based on a review of the California Scenic Highway Mapping System (https://dot.ca.gov/programs/design/lap-landscape-architecture-and communitylivability/ lap-liv-i-scenic-highways), the subject site is not located along a State Scenic Highway, nor are there any designated State Scenic Highways located near the project site. Based on this, the proposed project will not result in damage to scenic resources in a state scenic highway, and this exception does not apply. Hazardous Waste Sites. Projects located on a site or facility listed pursuant to California Government Code 65962. 5. Based on a review of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control "Envirostor Database" (http://www.envirostor.dtsc.ca.gov/public/), no known hazardous waste sites are located on or proximate to the project site. In addition, there is no evidence of historic or current use, or disposal .of hazardous or toxic materials at this location. Since the project site is not on a list compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5 related to hazardous waste sites, the project will not result in a significant effect due hazardous waste, and this exception does not apply. Historical Resources. Projects that may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an historical resource. The project site has not been identified as a historic resource by local or state agencies, and the project site has not been determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, California Register of Historical Resources, or the Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments Register, and/or any local register according to the City's HistoricPlacesLA website. HistoricPlacesLA is the City's new online information and management system created to inventory Los Angeles' significant historic resources. Based on this, the project will not result in a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historic resource, and this exception does not apply. In conclusion, since the project meets all of the requirements of the categorical exemption set forth at CEQA Guidelines, Section 15301, Class 1 and none of the applicable exceptions to the use of the exemption apply to the project, it is appropriate to determine this project is categorically exempt from the requirements of CEQA.