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Board approves CEQA consulting contract as consolidation planning advances; public asks how developer fees and traffic will be handled
Summary
The board hired PlaceWorks to complete CEQA work for a proposed school consolidation, discussing exemption vs. mitigated negative-declaration paths and optional fair-share traffic studies; public commenters asked that developer fees be used for local campus needs and that impacts be addressed in planning.
The Amador County Unified School District board approved a contract with PlaceWorks to complete California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) work related to the district’s school-consolidation planning.
Superintendent Critchfield told trustees the CEQA study will determine the correct environmental path — either a notice-of-exemption or a mitigated negative declaration — and that traffic impacts were a primary risk pushing staff toward a mitigated negative declaration. "It hinges mostly on traffic," Critchfield…
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