PCRES 1995-035PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION 95-035
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF LA QUINTA, CALIFORNIA, CERTIFYING A
NEGATIVE DECLARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
FOR ENVRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 95-300 PREPARED
FOR PUBLIC USE PERMIT 95-016
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT 95-300
DESERT SANDS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT (DSUSD)
WIIEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of La Quinta, California, did on the
11 day of July, 1995, the 25th day of July, 1995, and the 8th day of August, 1995, hold duly noticed
Public Hearings to consider the request of Desert Sands Unified School District (DSUSD) for a
Public Use Permit to allow an Educational Services Center on the northeast side of the intersection
of Dune Palms Road and 48th Avenue; and,
WHEREAS, said Public Use Permit has complied with the requirements of"The Rules
to Implement the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970" (as amended) (Resolution 83-68
adopted by the La Quinta City Council) in that the Community Development Department has
prepared Initial Study Environmental Assessment 95-294; and,
WHEREAS, the Community Development Director has determined that said Public
Use Permit will not have a significant adverse effect on the environment due to mitigation
requirements and that a Mitigated Negative Declazation of Environmental Impact should be filed; and,
WHEREAS, upon hearing and considering all testimony and arguments, if any, of all
interested persons desiring to be heard, said Planning Commission did find the following facts,
findings, and reasons to justify certification of said Environmental Assessment:
1. The proposed project will not be detrimental to the health, safety, or general welfare of the
community, either indirectly or directly.
The proposed project will not have the potential to degrade the quality of the environment,
substantially reduce the habitat of a fish or wildlife population to drop below self sustaining
levels, threaten to eliminate a plant or animal community, reduce the number or restrict the
range of a rare or endangered plant or animal or eliminate important examples of the major
periods of California history or prehistory.
The proposed project does not have the potential to achieve short-term environmental goals,
to the disadvantage of long-term environmental goals.
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4. The proposed project will not result in impacts which are individually limited or cumulatively
considerable.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Planning Commission of the City
of La Quinta, California, as follows:
1. That the above recitations are true and correct and constitute the findings of the Commission.
for this Mitigated Negative Declaration of Environmental
Impact.
2. That it does hereby recommend certification of Environmental Assessment 95- 300 with
the adoption of a Mitigated Negative Declaration for the reasons set forth in this Resolution
and as stated in the Environmental Assessment Checklist and Addendum, labeled Exhibit "A"
- EA, on file in the Community Development Department.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the La Quinta
Planning Commission held on this 8th day of August 1995, by the frlllowing vote, to wit:
AYES: Comissioners Anderson, Barrows, Butler, Gardner, and Chairman Abels
NOES: None
ABSENT: Commissioners Adolph and Newkirk
ABSTAIN: None
~ACQUE~ABELS, Chairma
City of a Quinta, California
ATTEST:
tY HEI~'MAN, Community Development llirector
of La Ouinta, California
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