Sunshine Gardens Elementary School Modernization

2026020125

South San Francisco Unified School District

NOE - Notice of Exemption

2/4/2026

2/4/2026

Lori Shelton

South San Francisco Unified School District

Director of Bond Program

Lead/Public Agency / Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project

398 B Street Facilities Building
South San Francisco, CA 94080

(650) 246-5977

lshelton@ssfusd.org

Miller Avenue and Holly Avenue

94080

Categorical Exemption

Section 15301 Class 1, Section 15302 Class 2, and Section 15314 Class 14

• The proposed project would be fully located within the SGES. • The proposed project would not result in a change of use of the campus or any of its facilities and would not expand the capacity of the school. • The proposed project would improve overall campus conditions, constructing an Exploratorium and modernizing existing buildings to be seismically compliant and meet California Green Building Standards (Title 24), without increasing capacity or generating new environmental impacts. • The project site is not within an environmentally sensitive environment. • The proposed project would improve the existing classrooms and add an Exploratorium room of approximately 1,458 square feet as part of the new 1,600-square-foot building. The Exploratorium room is intended for use by all classes for specific experimental and laboratory. Therefore, it would not add more classrooms. In addition, of the approximately 39,000 square feet classroom space on campus (90 percent of the existing buildings space), the Exploratorium room represents approximately a 4 percent increase in the total square footage of classrooms on campus, which is below 25 percent or 10-classroom threshold identified under the Class 14 (Minor Additions to Schools) categorical exemption.