Workshop

Standard Environmental Conditions Technical Workshop

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Watch Online
Time
5:30pm to 7:30pm
Location
San Francisco Planning, 1650 Mission Street, Suite 400
Neighborhood

The Planning Department is currently working to standardize policies and conditions that avoid or lessen common environmental impacts of development projects and create a program to apply those policies and conditions to all applicable projects in San Francisco as Standard Environmental Conditions of Approval (hereinafter “Standard Environmental Conditions”). This program would protect public health, safety, welfare and the environment while expediting environmental review for development projects, including housing projects.

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process identifies any potential adverse environmental effects of proposed actions including development projects, assesses the significance of these adverse environmental effects, and proposes mitigation measures to eliminate or lessen significant effects. Mitigation measures under CEQA are means to prevent, reduce or control adverse environmental effects of a project. Currently, mitigation measures are applied on a project-by-project review basis as part of the environmental review of each project. The Department proposes to streamline this process by requiring standard protection measures or Standard Environmental Conditions for all projects of certain types, based on substantial evidence and best practices in environmental protection.

Agenda:

5:30 p.m.: presentation

5:45 p.m.: breakout into environmental topic area small groups

Accessibility: San Francisco Planning is ADA accessible. For language assistance or disability accommodations at the event, please contact Candace Soohoo at candace.soohoo@sfgov.org or 415-575-9157 at least 72 hours in advance.