CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of National City will hold a Public Hearing after the hour of 6:00 p.m., Tuesday,
October 7, 2025, in the City Council Chambers,
Civic Center, 1243 National City Blvd., National
City, CA., to consider:
CONSIDERATION OF A FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT TO ASSESS
PROJECT IMPACTS AND AN APPEAL OF A
DENIAL OF A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT
AND COASTAL DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR
A PROPOSED FUEL TRANSFER FACILITY
(SAN DIEGO CLEAN FUELS LLC) WITHIN
BNSF RAILROAD RIGHT-OF-WAY AND BNSFOWNED PROPERTY, LOCATED WEST OF THE 1800 BLOCK OF CLEVELAND AVENUE
AND NORTH OF WEST 19TH STREET, NORTH
TO CIVIC CENTER DRIVE
CASE FILE NO. 2023-03 CUP, CDP, IS
APNS: 559-010-14, 559-040-46, 559-040-47,
559-040-48,
559-040-52, 559-076-02, 559-091-03, & 559-
091-11
The Planning Commission conducted a Public
Hearing at their meeting of September 15, 2025
and voted to deny the Conditional Use Permit
and Coastal Development Permit, by a vote of 4
to 1. The applicant submitted an appeal of the
project denial, which is to be heard by the City
Council.
The project application was submitted on January 30, 2023 (Applicant: Cindy Fleming, Fleming Alliance Architecture) proposing to construct and
operate a fuel transfer facility within an approximately 7.5-acre site located on and adjacent to existing Burlington Northern & Santa Fe railway tracks. The location is between Civic Center
Drive and West 19th Street and to the west of
Cleveland Avenue. Rail cars will be delivered to
the facility utilizing an existing rail spur that will be reconfigured to provide capacity for up to 21 rail
cars. Clean renewable and biofuels (renewable
diesel, ethanal, and sustainable aviation fuel) will
then be transferred from the rail cars to trucks
with an above-ground pump system. No fuel will
be stored on site. The quantity of transferred fuel
will be approximately 13,800 barrels of fuel per
day. The site would receive up to 72 trucks a day,
which would deliver the fuel to retail clients in the
metropolitan San Diego area. The City Council
will also consider findings presented in the Final
Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that the potential proposed project impacts may be mitigated to below a level of significance as contemplated under the California Environmental Quality Act. In addition, the project is located within the Coastal Zone. Pursuant to Section 30603 of
the Coastal Act, action taken on a major energy
facility may be appealable to the California
Coastal Commission (CCC). Appeals must be
filed with the CCC within 10 working days of a final local action notice.
Information is available for review at the City’s
Planning Division, Civic Center. Anyone interested in this matter may appear at the above time and place and be heard. Written comments or
testimony from the public must be submitted
v i a e - m a i l t o
[email protected] by 2:00
P.M. on the day of the City Council Meeting.
For information on registering to provide public
comment via Zoom please visit the City Clerk’s
webpage at https://www.nationalcityca.gov/government/city-clerk/public-comments If you challenge the nature of the proposed action in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the
Public Hearing described in this notice via e-mail,
or through written correspondence delivered to
the undersigned prior to the Public Hearing.
September 24, 2025
Shelley Chapel, MMC, City Clerk
Published in the Star News: Friday, September
26, 2025.
CV156956 9/26/2025