California Code of Regulations › Title 14 - Natural Resources › Division 5 - San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission › Chapter 10 - Amendments to the San Francisco Bay Plan or the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan and Other Planning Matters › Article 1 - Plan Amendments › Section 11003 - Staff Planning Report

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a)
				  Not less than thirty (30) days prior to the initial public hearing on the
				  proposed amendment, the Executive Director shall distribute a staff planning
				  report on the proposed amendment to all persons, agencies, and organizations
				  who received a descriptive notice of the proposed amendment and to anyone else
				  who requests such in writing.
(b)
				  The staff planning report shall contain:
(1)
				  the background of the proposed amendment, the name of the agency, organization,
				  or individual who proposed the amendment, and the reason for the
				  proposal;
(2) a description of the
				  proposed amendment that shall include the specific language, map designation,
				  or other change proposed, and, for any change in any plan map, graphic exhibits
				  that indicate the precise location and nature of the proposed change;
(3) a statement describing the effect the
				  proposed change would have on any existing finding, policy, or map designation
				  contained in the San Francisco Bay Plan, a Commission special area plan, the
				  San Francisco Bay Area Seaport Plan, the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan, or any
				  other plan administered by the Commission;
(4) a statement describing the consistency of
				  the proposed change with the findings and declarations of policy in the
				  McAteer-Petris Act (California Government Code Sections
				  66600
				  through
				  66694) if
				  an amendment to the San Francisco Bay Plan is proposed;
(5) a statement describing the consistency of
				  the proposed change with the findings and declarations of policy contained in
				  the Suisun Marsh Preservation Act of 1977 (California Public Resources Code
				  Sections
				  29000
				  through
				  29612)
				  if an amendment to the Suisun Marsh Protection Plan is proposed;
(6) an environmental assessment that contains
				  the information described in section
				  11521 of these regulations and
				  which shall either (i) state that the proposed amendment will have no
				  significant adverse environmental impacts or (ii) shall describe any possible
				  significant adverse effects that the proposed amendment would have on the
				  environment and shall describe any public benefits of the proposed amendment,
				  any feasible mitigation measures that would lessen the significant adverse
				  environmental impact(s) and shall evaluate any feasible alternatives to the
				  change;
(7) a summary of and
				  responses to written comments received following distribution of the
				  descriptive notice up to the time the staff planning report is
				  mailed;
(8) if the proposed
				  amendment involves a change in a water-oriented priority land use boundary
				  description, a draft revision of such boundary description; and
(9) a preliminary staff recommendation on the
				  proposed amendment.