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				<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Senator Padilla</ns0:AuthorText>
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				<ns0:Name>Padilla</ns0:Name>
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		<ns0:Title> An act to add Sections 21185.5 and 21185.6 to the Public Resources Code, relating to environmental quality.</ns0:Title>
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			<ns0:Subject>California Environmental Quality Act: environmental leadership development projects: streamlining.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a lead agency, as defined, to prepare, or cause to be prepared, and certify the completion of an environmental impact report on a project that it proposes to carry out or approve that may have a significant effect on the environment or to adopt a negative declaration if it finds that the project will not have that effect. CEQA also requires a lead agency to prepare a mitigated negative declaration for a project that may have a significant effect on the environment if revisions in the project would avoid or mitigate that effect and there is no substantial evidence that the project, as revised, would have a significant effect on the environment.</html:p>
			<html:p>The Jobs and Economic Improvement Through Environmental Leadership Act of 2021 authorizes the Governor, until January 1, 2032, to certify
			 environmental leadership development projects that meet specified requirements for certain streamlining benefits related to CEQA.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would provide additional streamlining benefits to Waterfront Environmental Leadership Development Projects (WELDPs), as defined, that, among other specified conditions, are certified by the Governor and located on more than 50 acres of land and water within the Central Embarcadero Planning District of the San Diego Unified Port District within the County of San Diego. The bill would provide that the streamlining benefits include a requirement that the California Coastal Commission provide specific and substantive comments or objections for certain documents within 60 days, as provided. The bill would require a lead agency or applicant to, within 30 days after the certification of the environmental impact report by the lead agency, file required application forms and materials for a port master plan amendment with the commission.
			 The bill would authorize the commission, if a certain condition is met, to charge a fee to an applicant for the reasonable costs incurred by the commission for processing documents for review or the application of the WELDP. By placing new duties on local agencies related to the streamlining benefits, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the urban waterfront in the County of San Diego.</html:p>
			<html:p>The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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			<ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 21185.5 is added to the 
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				, to read:
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					<ns0:Num>21185.5.</ns0:Num>
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								(a)
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								For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply:
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								(1)
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								“Coastal Commission” means the California Coastal Commission.
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								(2)
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								“Final action on the appeal” means approval, approval with conditions, or denial of a coastal development permit under de novo review.
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								(3)
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								“Objective standard” means a verifiable external standard, knowable by the public, that does not require subjective judgment.
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								(4)
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								“Port” means the San Diego Unified Port District as lead agency.
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								(5)
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								“Waterfront Environmental Leadership Development Project” or “WELDP” means a project to construct a mixed-use project on the waterfront that meets all of the following conditions:
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								(A)
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								Is certified by the Governor pursuant to this chapter as an environmental leadership development project.
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								(B)
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								Proposes to construct 1,000,000 or more square feet of new development on the waterfront.
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								(C)
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								Enhances public access to the waterfront.
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								(D)
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								Is located on more than 50 acres of land and water within the Central Embarcadero Planning District of the port within the County of San Diego.
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								(b)
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								A WELDP shall be eligible for streamlining as follows:
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								(1)
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								As provided in Section 21185.
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								(2)
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								Before the certification of an environmental impact report for a WELDP, the Coastal Commission shall review and process relevant technical reports,
						memoranda, plans, and submittals by a lead agency or applicant for a WELDP following certification by the Governor and before an application is submitted to the Coastal Commission, and provide specific and substantive comments or objections, if any, within 60 days of receiving those documents. Coastal Commission comments or objections on the submitted technical reports, memoranda, plans, and submittals not provided before certification of the environmental impact report shall be deemed waived. The waiver shall not apply to any new information that arises after the Coastal Commission comment or objection period ends.
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								(c)
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								(1)
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								Within 30 days after the certification of the environmental impact report by the lead agency, the lead agency or applicant shall file required application forms and materials for a port
						master plan amendment with the Coastal Commission.
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								(2)
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								Within 30 days of the submittal of a port master plan amendment to the Coastal Commission for a WELDP, the Coastal Commission shall provide a list of all technical reports, memoranda, plans, and submittals needed by the Coastal Commission to evaluate the consistency of the port master plan amendment with the California Coastal Act of 1976 (Division 20 (commencing with Section 30000)). The Coastal Commission shall not request additional materials beyond those identified in the list unless significant changes are made to the port master plan amendment or the WELDP after the materials are submitted.
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								(3)
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								The port master plan amendment shall include, but not be limited to, clear objective standards for building heights, setbacks, step-backs,
						view corridors, lower cost overnight accommodations and mitigation, and mitigation ratios for project-specific impacts to marine and coastal habitats.
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								(4)
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								Notwithstanding any other law that imposes a timeframe on the Coastal Commission to approve, disapprove, or conditionally approve a project, the Coastal Commission shall make a final determination on a port master plan amendment for a WELDP within 90 days of the date the Coastal Commission receives the materials on the list of all technical reports, memoranda, plans, and submittals pursuant to paragraph (2).
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								(d)
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								If the Coastal Commission finds that an appeal of a coastal development permit for a WELDP raises a substantial issue pursuant to the California Coastal Act of 1976 (Division 20 (commencing with
						Section 30000)), the Coastal Commission shall take final action on the appeal within 180 days. If a WELDP is consistent with the objective standards in the certified port master plan, as amended, those issues shall not be grounds for a finding of substantial issue.
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								(e)
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								The Coastal Commission shall not constructively deny a WELDP by imposing conditions as part of a conditional approval of a coastal development permit under de novo review that are not objectively necessary to assure consistency with the certified port master plan and the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with
						30200) of Division 20, and that serve to render the project, that is the subject of the permit application, practically infeasible.
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 2.</ns0:Num>
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				Section 21185.6 is added to the 
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					<ns0:Num>21185.6.</ns0:Num>
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							<html:p>The California Coastal Commission may charge a fee to an applicant pursuant to this chapter for the reasonable costs incurred by the Coastal Commission for processing documents for review or the application of the WELDP pursuant to Section 21185.5. Before charging the fee, the fee or rate shall be set forth in a written agreement with the applicant that may be amended from time to time.</html:p>
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			<ns0:Num>SEC. 3.</ns0:Num>
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				<html:p>The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique needs related to the urban waterfront in the County of San Diego.</html:p>
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					No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII
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					B of the California Constitution because a local agency or school district has the authority to levy service charges, fees, or assessments sufficient to pay for the program or level of service mandated by this act, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code.
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