RESOLUTION NO. R2026-
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NAPA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, (1) CERTIFYING AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA), FOR THE FIVE-WAY INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT (SCH #2024071257) ; (2) MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS CONCERNING SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, MITIGATION MEASURES, AND ALTERNATIVES; (3) APPROVING THE “PROPOSED PROJECT”; (4) ADOPTING A STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS; AND (5) ADOPTING THE MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, the City of Napa (“City”) proposes to construct the intersection improvements to the State Route 121 intersection with Third Street, Coombsville Road, and East Avenue in the City of Napa, California (referred to herein as the “Project”); and WHEREAS, approval of the Project would constitute a Project under the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, together with related state and local implementation guidelines and policies promulgated thereunder, all as amended to date (collectively, "CEQA"); and WHEREAS, the City is the lead agency responsible for environmental review of the Project; and WHEREAS, the City determined that an Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) should be prepared to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the Project; and WHEREAS, a Notice of Preparation for a Draft Environmental Impact Report (“Draft EIR”) was circulated to responsible and trustee agencies and other interested parties for a 30-day review period beginning July 29, 2024, and ending August 28, 2024; and WHEREAS, a Draft EIR was prepared to evaluate the potential environmental impacts of the proposed Project and was distributed to the State Clearinghouse and relevant agencies and circulated for public review beginning August 28, 2025 through November 1, 2025; and WHEREAS, a Final Environmental Impact Report, published on July 7, 2026, was prepared in accordance with CEQA which is comprised of the Draft EIR, together with the Draft EIR Comments and Responses (collectively, all of said documents are referred to herein as the “FEIR”), attached hereto as Exhibit A, and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (“MMRP”) included hereto as Exhibit B; and WHEREAS, CEQA requires that, in connection with the approval of a project for which an environmental impact report has been prepared which identifies one or more significant environmental effects of the project, the decision-making body of a public agency make certain findings and adopt a mitigation or monitoring program and overriding statement of consideration for any impact that may not be reduced to a less than significant level.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the City Council of the City Of Napa, as follows:
The City Council hereby finds that the facts set forth in the recitals to this Resolution are true and correct; and This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. That the City Council does hereby find and certify that the FEIR has been prepared and completed in compliance with CEQA; and The City Council was presented with, and has independently reviewed and analyzed, the FEIR and other information in the record and has considered the information contained therein, including the written and oral comments received at the public hearings on the FEIR and the Project, prior to acting upon or approving the Project, and has found that the FEIR represents the independent judgment of the City of Napa (“City”) as lead agency for the Project, and designated the Director of Public Works at the Director’s office at 1600 First Street, Napa, California, 94559, as the custodian of documents and record of proceedings on which the decision of the City is based; and That the City Council does hereby find and recognize that the FEIR contains additions, clarifications, modifications, and other information in its response to comments on the Draft EIR or obtained by the City after the Draft EIR was issued and circulated for public review and does hereby find that such changes and additional information are not significant new information as that phrase is described under CEQA because such changes and additional information do not indicate that any of the following would result from approval and implementation of the Project: (i) any new significant environmental impact or substantially more severe environmental impact not already disclosed and evaluated in the Draft EIR, (ii) any feasible mitigation measure considerably different from those analyzed in the Draft EIR that would lessen a significant environmental impact of the Project has been proposed and would not be implemented, or (iii) any feasible alternative considerably different from those analyzed in the Draft EIR that would lessen a significant environmental impact of the Project has been proposed and would not be implemented; and That the City Council does hereby find and determine, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15088.5, that recirculation of the FEIR for further public review and comment is not warranted or required under the provisions of CEQA; and The City Council does hereby select the “Proposed Project” .
The City does hereby adopt the CEQA Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations, attached hereto as Exhibit B, with respect to the significant effects of the environment of the “Proposed Project”, as identified in the FEIR, with the understanding that all of the information in this Resolution is intended as a summary of the full administrative record supporting the FEIR, which full administrative record should be consulted for the full details supporting these findings.
The City Council does hereby adopted the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program, attached hereto as Exhibit C, pursuant to Public Resources Code §21081.6 and CEQA Guidelines §1509. .
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of Napa at a public meeting of said City Council held on the 15th day of September, 2026, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST: ________________________
Tiffany Carranza
City Clerk
Approved as to form:
_________________________
Renee Giacomini Brewer
City Attorney
Exhibit A: 5-Way Intersection Improvements FEIR
Exhibit B: CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations Exhibit C: Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
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