Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) now available for public review
Mar 2, 2026 at 6:00pm
The City, acting as the CEQA Lead Agency, has prepared an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) on the draft 2045 General Plan.
This EIR is programmatic in nature and evaluates the broad, comprehensive effects of actions taken under the proposed 2045 General Plan. A program EIR considers the broad effects of implementing programs and does not examine the individual environmental effects of specific projects as would be done in project EIRs. A program EIR may be prepared on a series of actions that may be characterized as one large project. These actions may be related geographically, as logical parts of a chain of contemplated actions, in connection with issuance of rules, regulations, or plans that govern the conduct of a continuing program, or as individual activities carried out under the same authority and having generally similar environmental effects that can be mitigated in similar ways. A program EIR may also be used to simplify the task of preparing later environmental documents in the program by providing a basis for significance determinations, allowing incorporation by reference for broader program-wide issues, and focusing later EIRs on new impacts not previously considered.