HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 40-1990 RESOLUTION NO. 40-90
~ITY COUNCIL, CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA
A RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING APPROVALS IN
SUSPENSION FOR THE NON-RESIDENTIAL
COMPONENTS OF THE SHEARWATER DEVELOPMENT
PROJECT
WHEREAS, in December of 1986, the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco, after receipt of a Superior Court writ directing that prior
approvals of the Shearwater Development Project (the "Project") be vacated
pending preparation of a supplemental environmental impact report, but also
expressly allowing reinstatement of the approvals for the non-residential
components of the Project if certain findings were made, reapproved the non-
residential components of the Project; and
WHEREAS, the City and County of San Francisco acting through the San
Francisco Airport Commission appealed from that portion of the judgment of the
Superior Court allowing such reinstatement; and
WHEREAS, the Court of Appeal of the State of California, in City and County
of San Francisco v. Cit.v of South San Francisco, et al., (No. A037783, First
Districtl concluded that it was error for the Superior Court to allow such
reinstatement prior to preparation of a supplemental environmental impact
report v~cated the judgment and ordered suspension of further development of
the Project pending completion of a supplemental environmental impact report;
and
WHEREAS, a supplemental environmental impact report has been prepared and
certified by the Redevelopment Agency of the City of South San Francisco; and
WHEREAS, the City Council now desires to address the approvals it adopted
in DecemBer of 1986 that have been suspended by the decision of the Court of
Appeal; and
WNERE~S, to assist the City Council in evaluating the suspended approvals
and assessing the environmental impacts thereof, and in view of the passage of
time since certification of the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) and
the Supp'emental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), the FEIR and SEIR have
been ana'yzed by an independent environmental consultant who has determined
that those documents comply with the law and fully, fairly and accurately
described the environmental impacts of the proposed Project, Project
alternat"ves and mitigation measures; and
WNERE&S, based upon the FEIR, the SEIR, the consultant's report, the other
information available to it and the policy and other considerations that bear
upon itsianalysis, the City Council desires to consider reinstatement of the
suspended approvals; and
WHEREAS, to establish a complete and accurate record, the City Council has
orderedlthat the independent consultant's report be made a part of the record
of thes~ proceedings.
NOW, iTHEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of South San
FrancisCo that it finds as follows, with regard to the Final Environmental
Impact deport and Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (together "EIR")
and theiShearwater Development Project as modified by the deletions of the
residential component:
1. No isubstantial changes are proposed in the project which would require
important revisions to the EIR due to the involvement of new significant
environmental impacts not considered in a previous EIR on the project.
2. No isubstantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances
under which the project is undertaken which will require important
revisions to the EIR due to the involvement of new significant
environmental impacts not covered in a previous EIR.
3. No inew information of substantial importance to the project has become
available which was not known and could not have been known at the time
the previous EIR was certified as complete.
4. The various portions of the Shearwater Development Project are able to
funiction independently from each other and the scope of the project
requires that it be de~eloped in phases.
5. Fulil and fair consideration of a residential component will not be
preijudiced by commencement of one or more of the non-residential
components.
6. In ilight of the FEIR and the SEIR it is appropriate, proper and within
the! Council's power to ratify, reinstate, and readopt the approvals
suspended by the Court of Appeal ruling.
BE ITi FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of South San
Francisco hereby ratifies, reinstates and readopts the actions previously
taken: ~
1. ResDlution No. 195-86: A Resolution Adopting Findings Concerning the
Resiidential Component of the Shearwater Development Project
2. Resolution No. 196-86: A Resolution Rescinding General Plan Amendment
GP85-28, As Adopted by Resolution No. 259-85 (Shearwater Development
Project)
3. Res
Imp
)lution No. 197-86: A Resolution Certifying the Final Environmental
~ct Report for the Modified Shearwater Project
4. Resolution No. 198-86: A Resolution Adopting Findings and A Statement of
Fact Supporting Findings With Regard to the "Final Environmental Impact
Report for the U.S. Steel Redevelopment Project" (Modified Shearwater
Development Project)
5. Reslolution No. 199-86: A Resolution Adopting A Statement of Overriding
Conlsideration Related to Approval and Adoption of the Modified Shearwater
Dev!elopment Project
6. Resiolution No. 200-86: A Resolution Authorizing the Execution of an Owner
Pariticipation and Development Agreement By and Between the Redevelopment
Agelncy of the City of South San Francisco, the City of South San
Fraincisco, and Neville H. Price and Rosemary C.I. Price (Modified
Shearwater Development Project)
7. Approval of Motion of Tentative Subdivision Map SA-85-91
I hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was regularly introduced and
adopted by the City Council of the City of South San Francisco at a regular
meeting
AYES:
NOES:
leld on the 11th day of April , 1990 by the following vote:
Councilmembers Jack Draqo, Gus Nicolopulos, John R. Penna,
Roberta Cerri Teqlia, and Chairman Richard A. Haffev
None
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT:
None
None
~ATTEST' ~~ ~
· City Clerk
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