This article shall apply whenever the City is required to review
and comment upon a proposed negative declaration or Draft EIR for
which the City is not the Lead Agency.
(Ord. 2629 § 1, 1987)
Upon receipt by the City of a proposed negative declaration
or Draft EIR from a Lead Agency, the Environmental Coordinator shall
refer such document to those City Officials and agencies which the
Environmental Coordinator deems advisable. The Environmental Coordinator
shall be responsible for assembling and summarizing, as necessary,
comments which are received from such officials and agencies, and
shall forward such comments, together with the EIR or negative declaration,
to the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 2629 § 1, 1987)
After review of the negative declaration or EIR, along with
the comments of City Officials and agencies thereon, the Planning
Commission may by resolution order that certain comments be transmitted
to the Lead Agency, or may direct the Environmental Coordinator to
refer the negative declaration or EIR, along with comments by City
Officials, agencies and the Planning Commission, to the City Council
for its action.
(Ord. 2629 § 1, 1987)
The City Council, upon receipt of a negative declaration or
EIR from the Planning Commission, or upon its own motion, may direct
the clerk to forward its comments to the Lead Agency which prepared
the negative declaration or EIR.
(Ord. 2629 § 1, 1987)
(A)
Unless otherwise provided by Section 15050(c) of the State CEQA Guidelines, whenever the City is a responsible agency, it shall consider the Lead Agency's EIR or negative declaration prior to acting upon or approving a project. In such cases, the decision-making body shall act in accordance with Section 17-04.210 and the State CEQA Guidelines.
(B)
Whenever the City, as a responsible agency, receives a notice of
preparation, it shall inform the Lead Agency as soon as possible,
but in no event more than 45 days after receiving the notice, of its
comments, and the scope and content of the environmental information
that the City desires to be included in the EIR.
(Ord. 2629 § 1, 1987)
