Scoping Meeting Presentation 05032010.ppt
Public Scoping Meeting
May 3, 2010
PLN20090051
Sunset Landing Contract Rezone
Overview
•Contract Rezone Process
•SEPA
•Applicant Presentation on Sunset Landing
Proposal
•Public Scoping Comments
Contract Rezone Process
•PLN20090051 Contract Rezone
–Community Business (BC) to General Commercial
(CG and CG2)
–ECDC 20.40.020 Contract Rezone
•Type IV-B Process (ECDC 20.01.003)
–Planning Board Recommendation (Open Record
Public Hearing)
–City Council Final Decision (Closed Record Hearing)
•See Process Handout
SEPA
•State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA)
•Determination of Significance (DS)
•Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
•Elements of the Environment
(WAC 197-11-444)
–Natural (21 elements)
–Built (25 elements)
Scoping
•Scoping is the first step in the EIS process
•Narrow the focus of the EIS to significant
environmental issues
•Identify alternatives to be covered
•Identify potential mitigation measures
Significant Issues
•Natural environment
–Earth: Geology and soils
–Water: Floods
–Energy and Natural Resources: Scenic Resources
•Built environment
–Environmental health: Potential release of toxic or
hazardous materials
–Land and shoreline use: Relationship to existing land
use plans and aesthetics
–Transportation: Transportation systems, vehicular
traffic, movement/circulation of people or goods,
traffic hazards
Phased Review
WAC-197-11-060(5)
•Focus on issues that are ready for
decision and exclude from consideration
issues already decided or not yet ready
•When phased review is appropriate
–Nonproject to project specific
–Proposal being developed in clearly defined
phases
Phased Review (cont.)
WAC 197-11-443
•A nonproject proposal may be approved
based on an EIS assessing its broad
impacts.
•When a project is proposed that is
consistent with the approved nonproject
action, the EIS shall focus on the impacts
and alternatives not analyzed in the
nonproject EIS.
•The scope shall be limited accordingly
Proposed Phasing
•Cover in detail in nonproject EIS
–Scenic resources, aesthetics, transportation systems,
vehicular traffic, movement/circulation of people or
goods, traffic hazards, and relationship to existing
land use plans
•General analysis in nonproject EIS to be
covered in detail in Supplemental EIS at project
phase
–Floods, geology and soils, potential release of toxic or
hazardous materials
Scoping Comments
•What should be covered in the EIS?
•What alternatives should be considered?
•Mitigation measures?