San Diego County Municipal Code § 3.5 Environmental

California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15183 allows a streamlined environmental review process for projects that are consistent with the densities established by existing zoning, community plan, or general plan policies for which an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was certified.

The proposed project is consistent with the densities and use characteristics considered by the County of San Diego EIR for the General Plan Update (GPU) certified on August 3, 2011.

In order to qualify for a CEQA 15183 exemption, the following findings must be made:

∙ The project is consistency with the development density established by existing zoning, community plan or general plan policies for which an EIR was certified.

∙ There are no project specific effects which are peculiar to the project or its site.

∙ There are no project specific impacts which the GPU EIR failed to analyze as significant effects.

∙ There are no potentially significant offsite and/or cumulative impacts which the GPU EIR failed to evaluate.

∙ There is no substantial new information which results in more severe impacts than anticipated by the GPU EIR.

A project-specific environmental analysis has been completed as part of the 15183 process. Refer to the attached Background Report for an overview of the environmental review process.