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Staff recommends Planning Commission find Oxnard’s 2027–2031 CIP "not a project" under CEQA
Summary
City Engineer Morgan Caswell told the April 16 Planning Commission that staff recommends the Commission find the proposed 2027–2031 Capital Improvement Program is "not a project" under the California Environmental Quality Act and adopt a resolution that 72 newly identified projects conform with the City of Oxnard 2030 General Plan and coastal policies; environmental review will occur at the individual project stage.
Morgan Caswell, the city engineer for the City of Oxnard, presented the proposed Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for fiscal years 2027–2031 at the April 16 Planning Commission meeting and recommended the commission find the CIP "is not a project as defined under the California Environmental Quality Act" and adopt a resolution that the newly proposed projects conform with the 2030 General Plan and coastal land use policies.
Caswell said staff frames the CIP as a government funding and planning document, not an individual construction project, and therefore "environmental review will be conducted prior to the construction of each individual project and the environmental process…
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