HomeMy WebLinkAboutSB 1451 LTR to Hill 20140502�tY )ts�
* 44�at O S�is omspoOFFICE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
g O990 Palm Street ■ San Luis Obispo, CA 93401-3249 ■ 805/781-7119
May 2, 2014
VIA FAX ONLY (916) 651-4913
The Honorable Jerry Hill
Member, California State Senate
State Capitol Building, Room 5064
Sacramento, CA 95814
RE: SB 1451 (Hill) Environmental Quality: Judicial Review: Standing
(As amended on April 21, 2014)
NOTICE OF SUPPORT
Dear Senator Hill:
The City of San Luis Obispo supports your legislation, SB 1451, a measure intended to address
"document dumping."
As a city, we often serve as a lead agency on projects involving CEQA and believe in ensuring
that the process is transparent, open to the public and with ample opportunity to participate.
However, under existing law, a person can choose not to participate in the public comment
period and wait up until the public hearing on the project and then "dump" large amounts of
information in the lap of the lead agency in order to delay the hearing and the project.
SB 1451 seeks to resolve this issue while balancing the importance of public participation and
the need for lead agencies to receive timely comments in order to address concerns early in the
process. SB 1451 would require comments during the comment period with two exceptions.
The first exception is where no comment period was provided, and the second is where the
comments couldn't have been presented during the comment period because the information
wasn't available at the time. We appreciate this commonsense change that would improve the
CEQA process.
For these reasons, the City of San Luis Obispo supports SB 1451.
Sincerely,
J Marx
ayor
cc: Senator Bill Monning, fax 916-651-4917
David Mullinax, League of CA Cities
Kirstin Kolpitcke, League of CA Cities, fax 916-658-8240