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Planning staff outlines when draft EIR comment periods should be extended under CEQA
Summary
Environmental Review Officer Sarah Jones told the Planning Commission the standard CEQA draft EIR review period is 45 days and outlined circumstances — multiple sites, missing initial study, major holidays or access issues — that warrant setting a longer review period at publication or, rarely, extending to 60+ days with written findings.
Sarah Jones, the Planning Department’s Environmental Review Officer, presented a staff memo explaining how the department applies CEQA and Chapter 31 of the Administrative Code to set draft EIR review periods. Jones said the standard CEQA comment period is 45 days and that the ERO will consider longer review periods at publication — not by extension after the fact — when projects involve multiple…
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