2025 General Plan Update (PLN2025-00209)
Summary
SCH Number
2025120498
Public Agency
City of Fremont
Document Title
2025 General Plan Update (PLN2025-00209)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
12/11/2025
Document Description
The project includes a General Plan amendment to the Land Use and Open Space Element, and Conservation Element to comply with California Senate Bill 1425 and Assembly Bill 1889.
Contact Information
Name
James Willis
Agency Name
City of Fremont
Job Title
Senior Planner
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Fremont
Counties
Alameda
Regions
Citywide
Other Location Info
City of Fremont, Citywide
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
15307
Reasons for Exemption
General Plan Amendments are in response to the recent passage of Senate Bill 1425 and Assembly Bill 1889 by the California State Legislature. These laws require the City's General Plan to address equal access to open space for all residents, climate resilience and rewilding opportunities, and analyze wildlife connectivity areas, identify wildlife passage features, and consider the impact of development on wildlife and habitat connectivity.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
15308
Reasons for Exemption
General Plan Amendments are in response to the recent passage of Senate Bill 1425 and Assembly Bill 1889 by the California State Legislature. These laws require the City's General Plan to address equal access to open space for all residents, climate resilience and rewilding opportunities, and analyze wildlife connectivity areas, identify wildlife passage features, and consider the impact of development on wildlife and habitat connectivity.
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
15061(b)(3)
Reasons for Exemption
The proposed General Plan Amendment identified existing policies and would not result in any physical changes that would have a significant effect on the environment.
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
15162
Reasons for Exemption
An Environmental Impact Report (EIR) SCH#2010082060 was previously certified for the project of adopting the General Plan. Per CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for a project where an EIR has been certified unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in the light of the whole record, one or more of the following:
Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR or negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects.
Analysis: No substantial changes are proposed to the Fremont General Plan as part of this project. The proposed General Plan Amendment is to identify policies in response to recently passed legislation and all policies identified are existing.
Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR or Negative Declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects.
Analysis: No substantial changes are proposed under this project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR because the policies identified as pat1 of this General Plan Amendment are existing within the City of Fremont and the project would not result in any physical changes that would have a significant effect on the environment.
New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete or the Negative Declaration was adopted, 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
measure or alternative.
Analysis: No new information of substantial importance has been identified as pa11 of this project. The proposed project would not result in any direct physical changes that would have a significant effect on the environment. All policies to address the applicable legislation identified by this project currently exist and no new mitigation measures have been identified.
County Clerk
Alameda
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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