EIR will cover 3 things: HE, Safety Element, and Downtown Plan
Meeting is about scope of environmental impacts considered in EIR
Only 28 participants → lack of community engagement and bad marketing
Downtown Precise plan
2 new zones (Downtown Core, Downtown General)
Allow mix of residential, commercial, service, and office uses
Increased building heights and residential densities
Housing Element Update
2023-2031
RHNA
1359 dwelling units plus 25% buffer (1700 total)
Will be updating Safety Element as well
20 different impacts they are evaluating but ruled out some + cumulative impacts
CEQA topics scoped out
Agri and forestry, energy, geology and soil, hydrology and water quality, mineral resources
Topics not addressed under CEQA
Property values
Private view sheds
Parking
SB 743: As of July 2020 cities need to look at VMT as metric to do analysis not LOS = different way of looking at traffic and helps with looking at ghg emissions
baseline VMT will be high because of nature of town
Schools are located on extreme ends of town
2 private schools in downtown but most go to public
Discussion of agencies that will be affected: schools, fire dept, etc
Flooding in west Orinda
Wildfire risk
Landslide risk
Utilization of SB 10 - public comment Sean McFeely (younger!!)
Orinda
