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File #: 25-01067    Version: 1
Type: Departmental Agenda Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 12/4/2025 In control: BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
On agenda: 12/16/2025 Final action:
Title: HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the appeals of the Planning Commission Approval of the Sable Offshore Corporation's Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), Pacific Offshore Pipeline Company (POPCO) Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System Final Development Plan (FDP) Permits, Third, Fourth, and First Districts, as flows: (EST. TIME: 1 HR. 15 MIN.) a) Approve the appeals, Case Nos. 24APL-00025 and 24APL-00026; b) Make the required findings for denial of the Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the respective SYU, POPCO Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System FDP Permits; c) Determine that denial of the requests is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15270(a); and d) Deny the Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the respective SYU, POPCO Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System FDP Permits. COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER'S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY
Sponsors: PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
Attachments: 1. Board Letter, 2. Attachment A - Findings for Denial, 3. Attachment B - Additional Evidence, 4. Attachment C - CEQA Notice of Exemption, 5. Appellant Supplemental Comments - Environmental Defense Center, 6. Applicant Letter - Recusal Request, 7. Public Comment - Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta - Social Justice Ministry, 8. Appellant Supplemental Comments - Center for Biological Diversity and Wishtoyo Foundation, 9. Public Comment - Group 1, 10. Public Comment - Group 2, 11. Appellant Comments - EDC, 12. Applicant Letter, Support, & Exhibits, 13. Public Comment - Group 3, 14. Public Comment - Group 4, 15. Staff Presentation, 16. Appellant Presentation - EDC, 17. Applicant Presentation
Related files: 25-00942, 25-00919
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HEARING - Consider recommendations regarding the appeals of the Planning Commission Approval of the Sable Offshore Corporation’s Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the Santa Ynez Unit (SYU), Pacific Offshore Pipeline Company (POPCO) Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System Final Development Plan (FDP) Permits, Third, Fourth, and First Districts, as flows: (EST.  TIME: 1 HR. 15 MIN.)

 

a) Approve the appeals, Case Nos. 24APL-00025 and 24APL-00026;

 

b) Make the required findings for denial of the Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the respective SYU, POPCO Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System FDP Permits;

 

c) Determine that denial of the requests is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15270(a); and

 

d) Deny the Change of Owner, Operator, and Guarantor for the respective SYU, POPCO Gas Plant, and Las Flores Pipeline System FDP Permits. 

 

COUNTY EXECUTIVE OFFICER’S RECOMMENDATION: POLICY