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RESOLUTION NO. __________
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN
JOSE ADOPTING AN ADDENDUM TO THE SAN JOS E
MINETA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MASTER PLAN
INTEGRATED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT, ALL
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CALIFORNIA
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT, AS AMENDED
FILE NO. ER25-259
WHEREAS, the City of San Jose ("City") acting as lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, together with state and local guidelines implementing said Act, all as amended to date (collectively "CEQA"), prepared, completed, and certified the San José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final Environmental Impact Report ("Final EIR") , which analyzed the environmental impacts of a major amendment to the Airport Master Plan (Planning File No. PP18- 103) to modify certain components of the airfield to reduce the potential for runway incursions, update the aviation demand forecasts and shifting the horizon year from 2027 to 2037, and modify future facilities requirements at the Airport to reflect updated demand forecast, all on an approximately 1,000-acre site generally bounded by U.S. 101 to the north, the Guadalupe River and State Route 87 to the east, Interstate 880 to the south, a nd Coleman Avenue and De la Cruz Boulevard to the west, in the City of San José, California; and
WHEREAS, on April 28, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 79497 certifying the Final EIR (Planning File No. PP18-103), setting forth certain findings pertaining to the Final EIR, and adopting a mitigation monitoring and reporting program, all pursuant to the provisions of CEQA; and
WHEREAS, the proposed major amendment to the Airport Master Plan (“Modified Project”) (Planning File No. ER25-259) consists of the modification of certain components of the airfield to reduce the potential for runway incursions, the adoption of new aviation SAW:DHZ:KMF
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forecasts for the Airport through the 2037 planning horizon year, the demolition of an existing air traffic control tower and remote transmitter/receiver and construction of a new Federal Aviation Administration- approved Air Traffic Control Tower and remote transmitter/receiver, and the identification of potential future vertiport sites on the 1,000- acre site; and
WHEREAS, the environmental impacts of the Modified Project were analyzed in an Addendum to the Final EIR , pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, which states that a lead agency or responsible agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR or Negative Declaration if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the conditions described in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration have occurred; and
WHEREAS, as further described in the Addendum, the implementation of the Modified Project would not result in new significant effects on the environment beyond those already identified in the previously approved Final EIR, nor will the Modified Project result in an increase in the severity of significant effects identified in the Final EIR, and identified mitigation measures would continue to reduce each of those significant effects to a less- than significant level; and
WHEREAS, the City of San José is the lead agency on the Modified Project, and the City Council is the decision -making body for the proposed approval of the Modified Project; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has reviewed and considered the Addendum and intends to take action on the Modified Project in compliance with CEQA and state and local guidelines implementing CEQA; and
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WHEREAS, the San José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final EIR and the Addendum thereto for the Modified Project are on file in the Office of the Director of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement located at 200 East Santa Clara Street, 3rd Floor Tower, San Jose California, 95113, and are available for inspection by any interested person at that location and on the Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement website, and are, by this reference, incorporated into this Resolution as if fully set for herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JOSE:
THAT THE CITY COUNCIL does hereby make the following findings: (1) it has independently reviewed and analyzed the San José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final EIR, as modified by the Addendum, as well as other information in the administrative record and has considered the information contained therein, prior to acting upon or approving the Modified Project, (2) the Addendum modifying the San José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final EIR for the Modified Project has been completed in compliance with CEQA and is consistent with state and local guidelines implementing CEQA, and (3) the Addendum modifying the San José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final EIR represents the independent judgment and analysis of the City of San Jos é, as lead agency for the Modified Project. The City Council designates the Director of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement at the Director's Office at 200 East Santa Clara Street, 3rd Floor Tower, San Jos é, California, 95113, as the custodian of documents and records of proceedings on which this decision is based.
THAT THE CITY COUNCIL does hereby find that based upon the entire record of proceedings before it and all information received that there is no substantial evidence that the Modified Project will have any new significant effects on the environment and does hereby adopt the Addendum prepared for the Project (File No. PP25-005). The San SAW:DHZ:KMF
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José Mineta International Airport Master Plan Integrated Final EIR and the Addendum are: (1) on file in the Office of the Director of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement, located at 200 East Santa Clara Street, 3rd Floor Tower, San Jos é, California, 95113, and on the Department of Planning, Building and Code Enforcement's website, and (2) available for inspection by any interested person.
ADOPTED this _____ day of ___________, 2026, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
DISQUALIFIED:
MATT MAHAN
Mayor
ATTEST:
TONI J. TABER, MMC
City Clerk