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City staff gives CEQA refresher to Planning Commission on exemptions, studies and mitigation
Summary
City planning staff delivered a detailed CEQA training, explaining categorical exemptions, initial studies, negative declarations and EIRs, mitigation hierarchy, typical timelines and costs, and public-review processes; staff flagged a Gateway Activation Project environmental document currently out for review.
City staff delivered an extended CEQA training to the Citrus Heights Planning Commission that walked commissioners through how the California Environmental Quality Act works in practice and what to expect when environmental documents appear in front of the commission.
Casey (city staff) explained the hierarchy of CEQA review: statutory exemptions and categorical exemptions (including the parcel map option the commission saw tonight), initial studies that…
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