New environmental report out for city hall, medical building proposal

Over 1,000 pages of documents from a new draft Environmental Impact Report were posted to the City’s website for public comment and review Monday, as Citrus Heights moves forward on assessing a proposal which would move city hall adjacent to the nearby post office and allow a three-story medical office building in its place on Fountain Square Drive.

Required by the California Environmental Quality Act and prepared by Dudek consultants, the report includes a detailed environmental analysis, project description and assessment of several project alternatives, along with hundreds of pages of appendices. The report identifies about a dozen potentially “significant effects” resulting from the proposal in areas of aesthetics, air quality, biological and cultural resources, traffic and hazardous waste – though it details “feasible mitigation measures” to reduce the effects to “less than significant.”

<<See images of the proposed new city hall here: GALLERY: Artistic Images of Proposed New City Hall >>

The entire draft EIR is available for review on the City’s website, with a required 45-day review and comment period ending on January 26, 2015 at 5 p.m. After the public review period closes, all comments will be reviewed and addressed in the final EIR, according to the City.

Comments can be made by email to planning@citrusheights.net, or by mail to Planning Manager Colleen McDuffee, at 6237 Fountain Square Drive, Citrus Heights, Ca., 95621. The City says comments can also be made in person at a January 14, 2015 Planning Commission public hearing.

To learn more about the new city hall proposal and past controversy, see story: Council Votes 4-0 to Select New ‘Preferred’ City Hall Site.

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View the full draft Environmental Impact Report here: http://www.citrusheights.net/836/DEIR-Document