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Public Scoping Meeting May 3, 2010. PLN20090051 Sunset Landing Contract Rezone. Overview. Contract Rezone Process SEPA Applicant Presentation on Sunset Landing Proposal Public Scoping Comments. Contract Rezone Process. PLN20090051 Contract Rezone
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Public Scoping MeetingMay 3, 2010 PLN20090051Sunset Landing Contract Rezone
Overview • Contract Rezone Process • SEPA • Applicant Presentation on Sunset Landing Proposal • Public Scoping Comments
Contract Rezone Process • PLN20090051 Contract Rezone • Community Business (BC) to General Commercial (CG and CG2) • ECDC 20.40.020 Contract Rezone • Type IV-B Process (ECDC 20.01.003) • Planning Board Recommendation (Open Record Public Hearing) • City Council Final Decision (Closed Record Hearing) • See Process Handout
SEPA • State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) • Determination of Significance (DS) • Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) • Elements of the Environment (WAC 197-11-444) • Natural (21 elements) • Built (25 elements)
Scoping • Scoping is the first step in the EIS process • Narrow the focus of the EIS to significant environmental issues • Identify alternatives to be covered • Identify potential mitigation measures
Significant Issues • Natural environment • Earth: Geology and soils • Water: Floods • Energy and Natural Resources: Scenic Resources • Built environment • Environmental health: Potential release of toxic or hazardous materials • Land and shoreline use: Relationship to existing land use plans and aesthetics • Transportation: Transportation systems, vehicular traffic, movement/circulation of people or goods, traffic hazards
Phased ReviewWAC-197-11-060(5) • Focus on issues that are ready for decision and exclude from consideration issues already decided or not yet ready • When phased review is appropriate • Nonproject to project specific • Proposal being developed in clearly defined phases
Phased Review (cont.)WAC 197-11-443 • A nonproject proposal may be approved based on an EIS assessing its broad impacts. • When a project is proposed that is consistent with the approved nonproject action, the EIS shall focus on the impacts and alternatives not analyzed in the nonproject EIS. • The scope shall be limited accordingly
Proposed Phasing • Cover in detail in nonproject EIS • Scenic resources, aesthetics, transportation systems, vehicular traffic, movement/circulation of people or goods, traffic hazards, and relationship to existing land use plans • General analysis in nonproject EIS to be covered in detail in Supplemental EIS at project phase • Floods, geology and soils, potential release of toxic or hazardous materials
Scoping Comments • What should be covered in the EIS? • What alternatives should be considered? • Mitigation measures?