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Planning staff and preservation commissioners debate environmental-review role in Articles 10–11 rewrite
Summary
City planning staff told the Historic Preservation Commission that draft language for Articles 10 and 11 should preserve the commission’s charter right to comment on CEQA/NEPA documents but not let the HPC determine initial levels of environmental review; public commenters and several commissioners pushed for ways to surface categorical exemptions affecting historic resources for expert review.
Tara Sullivan, planning department staff, told the joint session on April 2 that the planning department had drafted revisions to Articles 10 and 11 to implement Proposition J and asked commissioners for guidance on several core issues. Sullivan said one of the central questions was language in “Power K,” which describes the Historic Preservation Commission’s authority to review environmental documents.
“The proposition ... does explicitly grant the historic preservation commission that power to review and comment on environmental documents,” Sullivan said, but she cautioned that the current draft reads in a way that could allow the…
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