NOTICE OF EXEMPTION
FROM: City of Fresno
Capital Projects Department
747 R St., 2nd Floor
Fresno, California 93721-4016
TO:
Fresno County Clerk
2220 Tulare Street
Fresno, California 93721
Office of Planning & Research SCH NO.: N/A
P.O. Box 3044, Room 212
Sacramento, California 95812-3044
Project Title: Ashlan & Shields Ped Countdown Heads, PW01066 Project Location: Ashlan Avenue, Valentine Avenue to Peach Avenue and Shields Avenue, Blackstone Avenue to Fowler Avenue. (Council Districts 1, 4, 7) Project Location – City: City of Fresno Project Location – County: County of Fresno
Description of Nature, Purpose and Beneficiaries of Project: The project includes replacing existing pedestrian signal heads with new countdown pedestrian signal heads and adjusting pedestrian signal head mounting equipment to meet ADA clearance requirements.
Name of Public Agency Approving Project: City of Fresno – Department of Public Works , Engineering Division
Name of Person or Agency Carrying Out Project: Andrew Guthrie, PE, City of Fresno, Capital Projects Department
Exempt Status: (check one)
Ministerial: PRC § 21080(b)(1); CEQA Guidelines §15268
Declared Emergency: PRC § 21080(b)(3); CEQA Guidelines §15269(a) Emergency Project: PRC § 21080(b)(4); CEQA Guidelines §15269(b) and (c) Categorical Exemption: CEQA Guidelines §15301/Class 1, §15304/Class 4 and 15332/Class 32 Statutory Exemption: PRC §_____________
Reasons why project is exempt:
Section 15301 (Class 1/Existing Facilities) consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. The types of “existing facilities” itemized below are not intended to be all inclusive of the types of projects which might fall within Class 1. The Key considerations whether the project involves negligible or no expansion use.
Specifically included in the class of exemption are:
(c) Existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities (this includes road grading for the purpose of public safety, and other alternates such as the addition of bicycle facilities, including but not limited to bicycle parking, bicycle-share facilities and bicycle lanes, transit improvements cu as bus lanes, pedestrian crossings, street trees, and other similar alterations that do not create additional automobile lanes).
PW01066
CEQA Notice of Exemption
November 26, 2024
The proposed project is consistent with the Class 1 exemption because the project is proposing to make improvements to existing traffic signals. The proposed improvements are minor, do not constitute an expansion of use, and will improve the public right -of-way without increasing road capacity. The proposed project involves negligible expansion of the existing use and will have substantially the same purpose.
Based on staff analysis, it was determined that no adverse environmental impacts would occur as a result of the proposed project and none of the exceptions to Categorical Exemptions set forth in the CEQA Guidelines Section 15300.2 apply to this project. Therefore, a categorical exemption, as noted above, has been prepared for the project.
Lead Agency Contact Person: Andrew Guthrie, PE T elephone No. (559) 621-8790
Signature: _____________________________________ Date: ______________________
Printed Name and Title:
Andrew Guthrie, PE, hLicensed Professional Engineer
Capital Projects Department, Design Services
Signed by Lead Agency Signed by applicant
Attachments: Categorical Exemption Determination
11/26/24
322928v1 Rev. 10.24
CITY OF FRESNO
CERTIFIED DOCUMENT OF EXEMPTION FINDING
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT NO. PW01066
THE PROJECT DESCRIBED HEREIN IS DETERMINED TO BE CATEGORICALLY
EXEMPT FROM THE PREPARATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS
PURSUANT TO ARTICLE 19 OF THE STATE CEQA GUIDELINES.
APPLICANT:
City of Fresno
Capital Projects Department
747 ‘R’ Street, 2nd Floor
Fresno, CA 93721
PROJECT
LOCATION:
Ashlan Avenue, Valentine Avenue to Peach Avenue and Shields Avenue, Blackstone Avenue to Fowler Avenue.
(Council Districts 1, 4, 7)
PROJECT
DESCRIPTION:
The project includes replacing existing pedestrian signal heads with new countdown pedestrian signal heads and adjusting pedestrian signal head mounting equipment to meet ADA
clearance requirements.
This project is exempt under Section 15301/Class 1 of the State of California CEQA Guidelines. None of the exceptions to Categorical Exemptions set forth in the CEQA Guidelines, Section 15300.2 apply to this project.
EXPLANATION:
Section 15301 (Class 1/Existing Facilities) consists of the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing public or private structures, facilities, mechanical equipment, or topographical features, involving negligible or no expansion of existing or former use. The types of “existing facilities” itemized below are not intended to be all inclusive of the types of projects which might fall within Class 1. The Key considerations whether the project involves negligible or no expansion use.
Specifically included in the class of exemption are:
(c) Existing highways and streets, sidewalks, gutters, bicycle and pedestrian trails, and similar facilities (this includes road grading for the purpose of public safety, and other alternates such as the addition of bicycle facilities, including but not limited to bicycle parking, bicycle-share facilities and bicycle lanes, transit improvements such as bus lanes, pedestrian crossings, street trees, and other similar alterations that do not create additional automobile lanes).
Date: November 19, 2024
Prepared By: Andrew Guthrie, PE
Submitted By: Andrew Guthrie, PE
Certified by the City of Fresno