Cabrillo Business Park (CBP) Lot 19 Google R&D Facility Case No. 25-0001-PCR
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Summary
SCH Number
2000041129
Lead Agency
City of Goleta
Document Title
Cabrillo Business Park (CBP) Lot 19 Google R&D Facility Case No. 25-0001-PCR
Document Type
NOD - Notice of Determination
Received
Posted
11/21/2025
Document Description
The proposed project (“Project”) will develop the currently vacant 7.6-acre Lot 19 of the Cabrillo Business Park (CBP), located at 6701 Discovery Drive (formerly 355 Coromar Drive), with a new research and development (R&D) facility (Project). The R&D facility is comprised of three (3) new buildings and related site improvements. The main R&D building, Building A, is comprised of 98,847 SF (net) with two stories and third-story mezzanine elements, located in the central portion of the Project site. Building A is supported by Building B, a single-story mechanical/electrical building (not occupied), and Building C, a three level 231-space parking structure. A portion of the first floor of the parking structure (Building C) is devoted to employee amenity uses, including a fitness room, showers/restrooms, bicycle, miscellaneous storage areas, and utility areas (5,383 SF, net). The total net building floor area of the Project is 104,230 SF. The Project also includes screened yard areas that contain ground-mounted electrical/mechanical equipment, above ground tanks to store helium, nitrogen, and back up fuel supplies, and other outdoor storage needs. The Project site is developed with an existing stormwater detention basin at the southern (rear) portion of the site. The Project does not propose any modifications to the existing detention basin area. The Project will serve as the primary research and development location to build, test, refine, and improve prototype quantum computing machines that will one day be manufactured for use by end-users to facilitate new processes and solutions across different industries and platforms.
The Project falls within the scope of the CBP Specific Plan, approved earlier as part of the CBP Final Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) (SCH No. 2000041129) previously certified on April 30, 2007. The CBP Specific Plan sets out steps for development projects on individual lots which will be processed and approved through a Project Clearance application. Here, the Project will be developed on Lot 19 of the CBP Specific Plan. The City prepared a Consistency Analysis with the CBP Final EIR, which includes a checklist analyzing the consistency of the proposed Project to the CBP Specific Plan requirements. Based on the Consistency Analysis, and pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines sections 15162 and 15168(c)(4), no subsequent or supplemental EIR is required for the proposed Project because of the following:
• No substantial changes are proposed in the Project which will require major revisions of the previously certified CBP EIR (SCH No. 2000041129) due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects;
• There are no substantial changes in the circumstances under which the Project will be undertaken that will require major revisions to the previously certified CBP EIR due to the involvement of significant new environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effect; and,
• No “new information of substantial importance” exists, as set forth in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3).
Contact Information
Name
Brian Hiefield
Agency Name
City of Goleta
Job Title
Senior Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Kathleen Popovec
Agency Name
Google, LLC
Job Title
Development Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Goleta
Counties
Santa Barbara
Regions
Citywide
Zip
93117
Parcel #
APN 073-610-036
Other Location Info
6701 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA
Notice of Determination
Approving Agency
City of Goleta
Approving Agency Role
Lead Agency
Approved On
County Clerk
Santa Barbara
Final Environmental Document Available at
City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117
Determinations
(1) The project will have a significant impact on the environment
No
(2a) An Environmental Impact Report was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
(2b) A Mitigated or a Negative Declaration was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(2c) An other document type was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
No
(3) Mitigated measures were made a condition of the approval of the project
Yes
(4) A mitigation reporting or monitoring plan was adopted for this project
Yes
(5) A Statement of Overriding Considerations was adopted for this project
Yes
(6) Findings were made pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
Yes
Attachments
Notice of Determination
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