Wellington Crossing (PLNG24-040)

2025120253

City of Elk Grove

NOE - Notice of Exemption

12/5/2025

12/5/2025

Kyra Killingsworth

City of Elk Grove

Senior Planner

Lead/Public Agency

8401 Laguna Palms Way
Elk Grove, CA 95758

(916) 478-3684

kkillingsworth@elkgrove.gov

Vasili Stratton

Samos Enterprise. LLC.

Representative

Project Applicant

2875 A Senter Road
San Jose, CA 95111

(408) 455-5431

vasilistratton@gmail.com

132-0460-107

Elk Grove, CA. Sacramento County

Other

Consistent With a Community Plan or Zoning [Section 15183(a)]

The proposed Project is a project as defined under Section 15378 of the State CEQA Guidelines. However, no further environmental review is necessary under CEQA pursuant to Sections 15183 (Projects Consistent with a Community Plan, General Plan, or Zoning) and 15162 (Subsequent EIRs and Negative Declarations) per the General Plan Environmental Impact Report (SCH#2017062058) and the 2023 General Plan Subsequent EIR (SCH# 2022020463) based on the finding contained within Attachment 1. State CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 (Subsequent EIRs and Negative Declarations) provides that when an EIR has been certified for an adopted project, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in light of the whole record, that one or more of the following exists: 1. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; 2. Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; or 3. New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with exercise of reasonable diligence at the time of the previous EIR was certified as complete shows any of the following: a. The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; b. Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; c. Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or d. Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measures or alternative. The proposed Project is consistent with the development density and use characteristics considered by the General Plan EIR in the High-Density Residential land use designation. The Project consists of construction of new attached townhomes as a multi-family development and associated on-site improvements on a vacant parcel zoned RD-30. New construction on the Project site will comply with EGMC development standards for land grading and erosion control (Chapter 16.44), water efficient landscape requirements (Chapter 14.10) as well as EGMC Title 16 (Building and Construction), Chapter 16.50 (Flood Damage and Protection), and Title 22 (Land Development). Compliance with these standards has been included in the conditions of approval for the Project. In addition, as indicated in the Project description, construction of the proposed Project shall conform to the City’s adopted Climate Action Plan (CAP) for green building, EV ready, and construction monitoring. The Project is for a new clubhouse and a reconfiguration of the map for the 188-unit residential development. The previously approved project provided a traffic analysis, which was prepared by Fehr and Peers, dated March 21, 2022. According to the analysis, neither the VMT land use designation limit nor the City limit for total VMT at buildout conditions will be exceeded. The revised proposal does not modify the Project unit count (188 units) and the private clubhouse is exclusive for the residents at the site and will not add to the vehicles miles traveled as the residents will travel to the onsite amenities, which could reduce the offsite travel for recreational opportunities. Fehr and Peers provided an updated memo dated October 27, 2025, on the VMT and the new clubhouse and reconfigured buildings will not exceed the land use designation for high density residential nor the City limit for total VMT buildout. In addition, as part of the original residential project, the Applicant provided a Cultural Resources Analysis from Peak and Associates for the site and it was concluded that the Cultural Resources analysis is consistent with the General Plan’s goals related to the protection of cultural and tribal resources. The original project was conditioned to address the potential for encountering undiscovered cultural or tribal resources and these conditions will continue to apply to the Project. No potential new impacts related to the Project have been identified that would necessitate further environmental review beyond the impacts and issues already disclosed and analyzed in the General Plan EIR. No other special circumstances exist that would create a reasonable possibility that the Project will have a significant adverse effect on the environment. Therefore, pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15183 and 15162, no further environmental review is required.