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City of Encinitas Permit and Service Delivery — Performance Standards + Process Guide

TI O N 7 study and draft environmental document. Preparation and review of the initial

study and draft environmental document may be consolidated at the sole

E C discretion of staff. Two CEQA review cycles are allowed for preparing the final
environmental document, including responses to comments. CEQA documents
S prepared by consultants are subsequently reviewed by staff under the City’s
review performance standard.

No more than two of the initial review cycles may be deemed incomplete. If a
project is deemed incomplete a second time, a meeting between the project
planner, supervisor and applicant is required. If the resubmittal for the third
cycle review is determined to be incomplete at intake or during review, the
review is halted and a Project Issue Resolution held. A project that remains
incomplete is forwarded to the decision-maker with a recommendation of
denial.

To ensure effective implementation of this policy, reviews must be
comprehensive. This also means that internal referral departments and
outside agencies need to meet the performance standards. Comprehensive
reviews avoid late hits of significant review comments later in the process. If
an applicant substantively changes their project description during the review
process, then they should expect the possibility of significant issues being
identified as a result.

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