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HEARING – Consider recommendations regarding Orcutt Community Plan Key Site 22 Wetlands Delineation Removal Amendment, 13GPA-00000-00003, Fourth District, as follows: (EST. TIME: 15 MIN.)
a) Make the required findings, including CEQA findings for adoption of the Orcutt Community Plan (OCP) Key Site 22 Wetlands Delineation Removal Amendment;
b) After considering the Addendum of May 22, 2013 and the previously certified Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Orcutt Community Plan 2012 Amendments (09EIR-00000-00004) including the Revision document (RV-1), determine pursuant to 14 CCR section 15162 that no subsequent EIR is required for this project because of the following: 1) No substantial changes are proposed in the project which require major revisions to the previously certified EIR due to new significant environmental effects; 2) No substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which require major revisions to the EIR; and 3) No new information of substantial importance concerning the project’s significant effects or mitigation measures, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the EIR was certified on December 11, 2012, has been received.
c) Adopt a Resolution approving specific text and map amendments to the Land Use Element of the Santa Barbara County Comprehensive Plan by adoption of the OCP Key Site 22 Wetlands Delineation Removal Amendment; and
d) Strike that portion of the appendices to the OCP EIR (95-EIR-1) titled, “Vernal Wetlands and Orcutt Creek Wetland Delineation,” prepared by Katherine Rindlaub Biological Consulting and bearing the date of September 1, 1995 and any conclusions based in whole or in part on said delineation, in compliance with a court order issued in Adam Bros. Farming Inc. v. County of Santa Barbara (Super. Ct. Santa Barbara County, 2004, No. 1007452).
COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY