2025 Citywide Road Resurfacing Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025091180
Public Agency
City of Santa Maria
Document Title
2025 Citywide Road Resurfacing Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
9/25/2025
Document Description
Surface treatment of various roadways throughout the City.
Contact Information
Name
Cody Graybehl
Agency Name
City of Santa Maria
Job Title
Senior Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
David Beas
Agency Name
City of Santa Maria
Job Title
Principal Civil Engineer
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant
Phone
Location
Cities
Santa Maria
Counties
Santa Barbara
Regions
Citywide
Other Location Info
Citywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 1 (c) (Existing Facilities) categorical exemption based on Section 15301 of the CEQA Guidelines.
Reasons for Exemption
The project would be located in existing City streets and would be for the maintenance of existing streets. The project would be located in existing City streets and would be for the maintenance of existing streets. The proposed project does not involve unusual circumstances, including future activities, resulting in or which might reasonably result in significant impacts which threaten the environment. No further environmental review is required. The exceptions to the categorical exemptions pursuant to Section 15300.2 of the State CEQA Guidelines are: (a) Location. Classes 3, 4, 5, 6, and 11 are qualified by consideration of where the project is to be located a project that is ordinarily insignificant in its impact on the environment may in a particularly sensitive environment be significant. Therefore, these classes are considered to apply all instances, except where the project may impact on an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern where designated, precisely mapped, and officially adopted pursuant to law by federal, state, or local agencies. 2025 Citywide Road Resurfacing Project, SP2025-0009 The project is utilizing a Class 1 exemption. This exception does not apply. (b) Cumulative Impact. All exemptions for these classes are inapplicable when the cumulative impact of successive projects of the same type in the same place, over time is significant. No cumulative impacts would be generated as this is an existing project site being modified. (c) Significant Effect. A categorical exemption shall not be used for an activity where there is a reasonable possibility that the activity will have a significant effect on the environment due to unusual circumstances. No unusual circumstances are present. (d) Scenic Highways. A categorical exemption shall not be used for a project which may result in damage to scenic resources, including but not limited to, trees, historic buildings, rock outcroppings, or similar resources, within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway. This does not apply to improvements which are required as mitigation by an adopted negative declaration or certified EIR. No scenic highways would be impacted by the project. (e) Hazardous Waste Sites. A categorical exemption shall not be used for a project located on a site which is included on any list compiled pursuant to Section 65962.5 of the Government Code. No hazardous waste sites are located at the project site. (f) Historical Resources. A categorical exemption shall not be used for a project which may cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. No historical resources are located at the project site.
County Clerk
Santa Barbara
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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