TO:
CITY OF STOCKTON
NOTICE OF EXEMPTION
COUNTY CLERK FROM: Lead Agency
COUNTY OF SAN JOAQUIN
44 N. San Joaquin Street, Suite 260
Stockton, CA 95202
City of Stockton
Public Works Dept.
425 North El Dorado Street
Stockton, CA 95202-1997
NOTICE OF EXEMPTION PURSUANT TO PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE SECTION 21152(8) AND CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS TITLE 14, SECTION 15062
PROJECT DATA
Project Title: Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Phase V Improvement CEQA Exemption File No.: NOE16-19
Applicant: Public Works Department
Project Description: The project will provide Transit Signal Priority (TSP) and related improvements at the existing traffic signals along BRT corridor between Center Street and Netherton Avenue.
DETERMINATION/FINDING OF EXEMPTION
The above-described activity/project is exempt from the environmental assessment requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to the following section(s) of the State CEQA Guidelines (California Code ·of Regulations, Title 14 ):
The activity is not a "project," as defined in CEQA Guidelines §15378.
The activity is exempt under the "general rule" at CEQA Guidelines §15061 (8)(3).
The project is "Statutorily Exempt" per CEQA Guidelines §: __ _ _x__ The project is "Categorically Exempt" per CEQA Guidelines §:15301 (c).
BASIS FOR FINDING OF EXEMPTION
The activity does not qualify as a project and/or clearly could not have a significant effect on the environment and, therefore, CEQA does not apply.
--2L The activity constitutes a discretionary project under the City's jurisdiction and qualifies as a project which has been determined not to have a significant effect on the environment arid, therefore, is exempt from the provisions of CEQA under the above-noted statutory or categorical exemption(s).
June 11 2019
(DATE OF PREPARATION)
(DATE OF FINAL APPROVAL}
AFFIDAVIT OF FILING AND POSTING
I declare that on the date stamped above, I received and posted this notice or included it on a list of such notices which was posted as required by California Public Resources Code Section 21152(8). Said notice or list of notices will remain posted for 35 days from the filing date.
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