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Planning commissioners receive CEQA refresher emphasizing mitigation and document review
Summary
Senior environmental planner Lindsey Morrow briefed the Rancho Cordova Planning Commission on CEQA fundamentals, differences between categorical exemptions, mitigated negative declarations and environmental impact reports, and the role of decisionmakers in mitigation monitoring and public review.
Lindsey Morrow, senior environmental planner in the Planning Division, briefed the Rancho Cordova Planning Commission on the California Environmental Quality Act and the environmental-review process, focusing on when categorical exemptions, mitigated negative declarations and environmental impact reports are appropriate and what commissioners should review in each document.
Morrow summarized CEQA’s purpose and public-noticing requirements: "The purpose of CEQA is to disclose potential environmental impacts of a project to the public and to reduce environmental impacts as much as possible," she said, and walked commissioners through key…
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