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TO:HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL
FROM:CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC WORKS
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DATE:
SUBJECT:
JANUARY 12, 2004 CMR:124:04
SUPPLEMENTAL MEMO TO REVISE STAFF
RECOMMENDATION IN CMR:101:04 TO INCLUDE THE
ADOPTION OF A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE MITIGATED
NEGATIVE DECLARATION FOR THE MOUNTAIN VIEW /
MOFFETT AREA WATER RECYCLING FACILITY
This supplemental memo is not a substantive change to Council action on CMR:101:04
that is on the Council’s agenda tonight.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution (Attachment A) adopting the Mitigated
Negative Declaration (MND) for the Mountain View / Moffett Water Recycling Facility
Project. This recommendation replaces recommendation 1 on CMR: 101:04.
DISCUSSION
The recommendation for the Council to adopt the Resolution for the MND was
inadvertently omitted from the project CMR:104:04. The California Environmental
Quality Act guidelines section 15074 requires the City Council to consider the negative
declaration on the project and to find that there is no substantial evidence that the project
will have a significant effect on the environment before approving the project. The
resolution will document the Council’s finding of no significant impact and the actions
adopting the MND and the mitigation monitoring and reporting plan.
The MND identified the potential environmental effects of the Project. Mitigation
measures have been incorporated into the project to reduce the potentially significant ¯
impacts to a less-than-significant level. These measures are described in the mitigation
summary and monitoring and reporting plan that is part of the MND to be adopted (MND
at page 3-1). The MND also contains the comments received on the draft MND and the
project modifications made as a result of the comments. (IvIND, appendix C).
The Council has already received copies of the MND with the CMR that also discussed
the environmental analysis for the project. The City Council Resolution adopting the
CMR:123:04 Page 1 of 2
MND references an Exhibit A. The Exhibit A is the same document as Attachment B in
CMR:104:04. There has been no additional environmental analysis subsequent to that
report.
ATTACHMENTS
Attachment A: Resolution
PREPARED BY:Daisy Stark, Senior Engineer RWQCP
Elizabeth Young, Senior ~er, P&C
DEPARTMENT HEAD:
Director of Planning
~onment
GLENN S. ROBERTS
and Community
Director of Public Works
CITY MANAGER APPROVAL:
BENEST
City Manager
CMR: 123:04 Page 2 of 2
NOT YET APPROVED
RESOLUTION NO.
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO
ALTO ADOPTING A MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION
FOR THE MOUNTAIN VIEW-MOFFETT AREA RECYCLED
WATER RECYCLING FACILITY PROJECT PURSUANTTO THE
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT
(03-D-07; 03-EIA-07)
WHEREAS, the Mountain View-Moffett Area Recycled Water
Recycling Facility Project (~Project") would replace a
deteriorated recycled water pipeline to restore recycled water
service from the Pa!o Alto Water Quality control Plant to
Mountain View (Shoreline Area) and extend the pipeline to serve
up to 1,200 acre-feet per year of recycled water for landscape
irrigation in the Shoreline Area, the City of Mountain View
North of Highway i01 and the Moffett Field Area. The Project is
an expansion of the existing Regional Water Quality Control
Plant Water Reuse Program; and
WHEREAS, the City as the lead agency for the Project has
prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Project. A
Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration was released for a 30-day
public comment period on October 31, 2003. A public meeting to
hear public input on the Draft Mitigated Negative Declaration
was held on November 19, 2003; and
~%~EREAS, the Mitigated Negative Declaration was prepared
pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, Public
Resources Code section 21000 et seq. ("CEQA") and the State CEQA
Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, section
15000 et seq. The Mitigated Negative Declaration including the
project description, environmenta! checklist form, mitigation
summary and monitoring and reporting plan, and appendices is
attached as Exhibit ~A" to this Resolution and by this reference
incorporated herein; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and considered
the info_~mation contained .in the Mitigated Negative Declaration,
including comments received and the responses to those comments;
and
WHEREAS, the Mitigated Negative Declaration was prepared
by the City and the city environmental consultants and reflects
their independent judgment and analysis. There is no
substantial evidence on the basis of the record as a whole that
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the Project will have a significant effect on the environment;
and
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto
does RESOLVE as follows:
SECTION i. Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan.
The Mitigation Summary and Monitoring and Reporting Plan
included in the Mitigated Negative Declaration attached as
Exhibit A is hereby approved and adopted.
SECTION 2. Adoption. The City Council finds that the
Mitigated Negative Declaration has been completed in compliance
with CEQA and adopts and approves it. The City Council has
reviewed and considered the information contained in the
Mitigated Negative Declaration, staff reports, oral and written
testimony given at public meetings on the proposed Project and
all other matters deemed material and relevant before
considering the Project for approval.
SECTION 3. No Recirculation Required. The City Council
finds that no new significant information has been received that
requires recircu!ation of the Mitigated Negative Declaration.
INTRODUCED MAID PASSED:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
ATTEST:
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:APPROVED:
City Attorney City Manager
Director of Public Works
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EXHIBIT "A"
A copy of Exhibit "A" can be obtained from the City Clerk at the
Council Meeting on January 12, 2004
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