ATTACHMENT 2
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RESOLUTION R2022___
RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
NAPA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE CITY OF
NAPA 2040 GENERAL PLAN , THE CITY OF NAPA
GENERAL PLAN
WHEREAS, the City of Napa is requi red by State law to prepare and adopt a General Plan for the long-term physical growth and development of the City; and WHEREAS, the City’s current General Plan, Envision Napa 2020 , was adopted on December 1, 1998; and
WHEREAS, the City Council directed staff to prepare a comprehensive update to the General Plan that fully complies with State law and will be us eful to the City and in implementing future growth and development programs; and WHEREAS, the City Council approved a Professional Services Agreement with Dyett & Bhatia Urban and Regional Planners for the preparation of the City of Napa 2040 General Plan (“2040 General Plan”) and corresponding EIR on May 1, 2018; and WHEREAS, the City Counc il established a General Plan Advisory Committee to advise City staff and serve to engage and invol ve the p ublic in the update process, inform development and prioritization of long-range planning programs and policies, and facilitate preparation of the 2040 General Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Committee used an open, inclusive process that incorporat ed a combination of in -person and v irtual outreach; sixteen public meetings; and four community workshops; and
WHEREAS the recommended 2040 General Plan provides new Goals and Policies to carry out the Vision and Guiding Principles; and WHEREAS, on September 1, 2022, the Planning Commission held noticed public hearings, considered comments from the public and members of the Commission, and recommended certification of the EIR and adoption of the 2040 General Plan; and WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing on the Final EIR and the 2040 General Plan, considering testimony from the public, the recommendatio ns of the Planning Commission and the whole of the record.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City of Napa as follows:
Section 1. Based on evidence in the entire record, including, but not limited to, the Revised Draft EIR and Final EIR , all Staff reports relating to the General Plan, and the R2022____ Page 2 of 4
written and oral testimony received at the hearings for the General Plan, the City Council finds and determines that it has reviewed and considered the information in the Revised Draft EIR and Final EIR and the General Plan Background Report and Policy Document, and the recommendations of the Planning Commission in making its decision to adopt the 2040 General Plan.
Section 2. Pursuant to Section 15090 of the CEQA Guidelines, the City Council has adopted Resolution No. R2022-XXXX which certifies the adequacy of the Final EIR prepared for the City of Napa 2040 General Plan , The City of Napa Gene ral Plan and includes specific findings required by Section 15091 of the CEQA Guidelines.
Section 3. The City Council finds that the CEQA process for the 2040 General Plan included the preparation of a Revised Draft EIR and resulted in revisions to the draft 2040 General Plan in the form of Addenda. These policy revisions helped to avoid or lessen certain potentially signific ant environmental impacts and the Planning Commission’s recommendations and City Council amendments for policy modifications improve the mitigating ability of the 2040 General Plan and lessen certain impacts leaving only four unavoidable significant enviro nmental effects to potentially exist for which no feasible mitigation was determined.
Section 4. The City Council has considered the alternatives presented in the FEIR and has adopted the Environmentally Superior Alternative as the project for the 2040 General Plan based on information in the FEIR. With regard to the unavoidable significant environmental effect s identified in the FEIR, the City Council has included feasible mitigations to help reduce these impacts but has found that they cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level as a certainty. The City Council has considered the need for balance bet ween the community w ide benefits of implementing the 2040 General Plan and the unavoidable significant impacts and has determined that economic, legal, social, technological and other benefits (as described in detail in Exhibit C to City Council Resolution R2022-XXXX outweigh the unavoidable adverse environmental effects that may result from implementation of the 2040 General Plan and has adopted a Statement of Overriding Considerations.
Section 5. Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21081.6, Subdivis ion (a), and as specified in Exhibit D to City Council Resolution R2022-_XXXX, the City Council has determined that adoption o f the 2040 General Plan will, in effect adopt a mitigation monitoring and reporting program for the 2040 General Plan.
Section 6 . In order to fulfil l the fundamental objectives tha t resulted from a comprehensive and community based planning process, the City Council hereby adopts the City of Napa 2040 General Plan, the City of Napa General Plan as recommended by the Planning Commission, with the amendments by the City Council, as attached hereto and incorporated herein as Exhibit “A.”
Section 7. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
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I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Reso lution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Napa at a public meeting of said City Council held on the 18th day of October, 2022, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: _____
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF NAPA
Approved as to form:
Michael W. Barrett
City Attorney
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EXHIBIT “A”
Napa 2040 General Plan
NAPA 2040 GENERAL PLAN
(PREVIOUSLY DISTRIBUTED TO THE CITY COUNCIL,
AND MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR REVIEW AT
www.napa2040.com
AND THE OFFICE OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, 1600 FIRST STREET, NAPA, CA 94559)