California Environmental Quality Act

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The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California law that requires public agencies and local governments to evaluate and disclose the environmental impacts of development projects or other major land use decisions, and to limit or avoid those impacts to the extent feasible.

The laws and rules governing the CEQA process are contained in the CEQA statute (Public Resources Code Section 21000 and following), the CEQA Guidelines (California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Section 15000 and following), published court decisions interpreting CEQA, and locally adopted CEQA procedures.

On this page you can find and view CEQA notices and environmental documents for projects currently under review. Please click on the "CEQA Acronyms" tab below for a list of commonly used acronyms and their description. A brief overview of the CEQA process has also been provided below.

CEQA Notices

FILE NO.	PROJECT NAME	DATE PUBLISHED	NOTICE TYPE
the file # should link to the project info in etrakit. for city projects with no file # write N/A			use acronym, NOE, NOC etc., acronym should link directly to notice in filebank
MD2023-007	Archway Recovery Services	February 26, 2024	Final: Initial Study \| MND NOI \| Initial Study
GPA2021-001	Green Valley 3 Apartments	March 15, 2022	NOP
GPA2021-003	80-12 Industrial Center	August 3, 2022	NOI
ANX2021-002	Sunset Avenue Apartments	September 28, 2022	NOI
GPA2021-001	Green Valley 3 Apartments	January 9, 2023	NOA-NOC

Environmental Documents

The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requires a public review period for development projects depending on the level of environmental analysis required. The following table contains a list of environmental documents currently under review.

FILE NO.	PROJECT NAME	REVIEW PERIOD	HEARING DATE
TP2024-001	2500 North Watney Way Parcel Split NOE	N/A, Exempt	N/A
LLA2024-001	Parkway Community Church Lot Merger	N/A, Exempt	N/A
UP2024-002	Fairfield Cement Hill IUP	N/A, Exempt	February 29, 2024
UP2024-004	Pet Hotel	N/A, Exempt	March 25, 2024
ER2022-010	Logisticenter at Fairfield MND Addendum	N/A, adopted January 2021	N/A
ER2021-038	80-12 Industrial Center Appendices	August 3- August 24 2022	August 24, 2022
ANX2021-002	Sunset Avenue Apartments Appendices	August 29- September 28, 2022	September 28, 2022
ANX2021-002	Sunset Avenue Apartments Review Period Draft	August 29- September 28, 2022	September 28, 2022
GPA2021-001	Green Valley 3 Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Appendix F Appendix G Appendix H Appendix IA Appendix IB Appendix J Appendix K	January 9 2023-February 23, 2023	February 8, 2023
GPA2021-001	Final Environmental Impact Report Evacuation Response Memorandum	N/A	June 28, 2023

CEQA Acronyms

ACRONYM	DESCRIPTION
NOA	Notice of Availability
NOC	Notice of Completion
NOD	Notice of Determination
NOE	Notice of Exemption
NOI	Notice of Intent
NOP	Notice of Preparation
DEIR	Draft Environmental Impact Report
EIR	Environmental Impact Report
FEIR	Final Environmental Impact Report
SEIR	Supplemental Environmental Impact Report
SBEIR	Subsequent Environmental Impact Report
ND/Neg Dec	Negative Declaration
MND	Mitigated Negative Declaration
IS	Initial Study
MMRP	Mitigation Monitoring Reporting Program

CEQA Process

Once an agency determines that a proposed activity is a project under CEQA, it will usually take the following three steps:

Determine whether the project falls under a statutory or categorical exemption from CEQA.
If the project is not exempt, prepare an initial study to determine whether the project might result in significant environmental effects.
Prepare a negative declaration, mitigated negative declaration, or EIR, depending on the initial study.

Most development projects fall into one of the following categories of CEQA review:

Statutorily exempt
Categorically Exempt
Initial Study and Negative Declaration(IS/ND)
Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND)
Environmental Impact Report (EIR)

A flow chart of the CEQA process is provided below. For more information on how to determine whether an activity is subject to environmental review, what steps are involved in the environmental review process, and the required content of environmental documents, please refer to the CEQA Guidelines.

CEQA Process Flowchart