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June 17, 2009 Certified Mail # 7001 1140 0001 0465 «Cert_»
To: «FirstName_» «LastName», «Title»
«Company»
«Address1»
«City», «State» «PostalCode»
Subject: Notice of Preparation of a Draft Environmental Impact Report
South El Camino Real General Plan Amendment (P08-0076:
GPA08-0001 & EIR08-0004)
Lead Agency: Consulting Firm:
Agency Name: City of South San Francisco Firm Name: Dyett & Bhatia
Planning Division
Street Address:315 Maple Avenue Street Address: 755 Sansome Street
South San Francisco, CA
Suite 400
94080San Francisco, CA 94111
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 711
South San Francisco, CA
94083
Contact:Gerry Beaudin, AICP, Senior Contact:Rajeev Bhatia, Principal
Planner
The City of South San Francisco will be the Lead Agency and will prepare an Environmental Impact
Report (EIR) for the project identified below. We need to know the views of your agency as to the
scope and content of the environmental information which is relevant to your agency’s statutory
responsibilities in connection with the proposed General Plan Amendment. Your agency will need to
use the EIR prepared by our agency when considering your permit or other approval for the project.
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The purpose of the General Plan Amendment is summarized below. An Initial Study is not attached.
Due to the time limits mandated by State law, your response must be sent at the earliest possible date
not later than 30 days
but after receipt of this notice.
Please send your response to Gerry Beaudin at the address shown above. We will need the name for a
contact person in your agency.
Project Title
South El Camino Real General Plan Amendment
:
Project Location
: The South El Camino Real General Plan Amendment study area runs along
El Camino Real between Chestnut Avenue and the City’s southern boundary. See the Vicinity Map
below.
– So. San Francisco, CA*
* Note: Map not to scale.
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Project Description & Scoping
: The proposed General Plan Amendment will adopt
planning goals, objectives, and policies to allow for dense (60 du/acre) and intense (3.0 FAR) mixed-
use development along the El Camino Real corridor, south of Chestnut Avenue. The proposed
General Plan Amendment is consistent with the intent of the “Grand Boulevard Initiative” for El
Camino Real and with “Smart Growth” principles, which include but are not limited to creating:
mixed land uses, a range of housing opportunities and choices, walkable neighborhoods, compact
urban form, opportunities for transportation/transit alternatives, and an effective use of available
infrastructure. Further, the City believes that by allowing more dense, mixed-use development in the
El Camino Real corridor, it is progressively addressing issues identified in the State of California 2006
Global Warming Solutions Act (AB32) and the State’s greenhouse gas emissions law (SB375).
The EIR will focus on environmental effects in the following topic areas: Aesthetics; Air Quality;
Geology and Soils; Hazards and Hazardous Materials; Hydrology and Water Quality; Land Use
Planning; Noise; Transportation and Circulation; and Utilities and Service Systems (Water,
Wastewater, and Solid Waste).
A project scoping meeting will be held on Wednesday July 1, 2009 at 3pm at the 315 Maple Avenue
in South San Francisco, CA.
Date: June 17, 2009
Gerry Beaudin, Senior Planner
Telephone: (650) 877-8535
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