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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT
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Oroville, CA 95965-4897
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BUTTE COUNTY
ADMINISTRATION
JUL 17 2014
OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA Donald Rust
DIRECTOR
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BEFORE THE CITY OF OROVILLE PLANNING COMMISSION
OROVILLE WALMART PROJECT SECOND PARTIALLY RECIRCULATED
FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT
(STATE CLEARINGHOUSE NO. 2008052081)
Notice is hereby given that the City of Oroville Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing to
consider adopting Resolution No. P2014-12 for the purpose of certifying the Second Partially
Recirculated Final Environmental Impact Report for the Oroville Walmart Project, which includes an
update to the Executive Summary, Air Quality/Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Transportation
sections of the previously released 2010 Draft Environmental Impact Report. The Planning
Commission will also consider re -certifying portions of the previous 2010 Final Environmental Impact
Report not affected by the Court of Appeal's decision, re -adopting CEQA Findings of Fact and a
Statement of Overriding Considerations and re -adopt a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
for the Oroville Walmart Project.
Project Location and Description:
The proposed project consists of the development of an approximately 200,225 -square -foot Walmart
store and associated parking and infrastructure on a 20.75 -acre site bounded by Feather River
Boulevard (west); Cal Oak Road (north); 7th Avenue (east); and vacant, industrially zoned land (south)
in the City of Oroville, Butte County, California (APNs: 035-360-019 through -027 and 035-360-006).
The interior of the store would contain general merchandise and grocery sales areas; additionally, the
interior would include a fast-food restaurant tenant, abank, a medical clinic, a vision center, a photo
lab, and a nail and hair salon. An existing Walmart store located at 355 Oroville Dam Boulevard East
(approximately 0.4 mile northwest of the project site across Feather River Boulevard) will be closed,
but the existing store would be sold to a third party who has plans to re -tenant it in the future.
Public Meetings/Hearings:
The City of Oroville Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on the project described in this
letter. Said hearing will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, July 28 2014 in the City Council Chambers,
1735 Montgomery Street Oroville, CA. All interested persons are invited to attend or submit
comments in writing.
Environmental Determination:
It has been determined that the proposed project, accounting for all verifiable reductions, exceeds the
29 percent Business as Usual threshold used to determine consistency with Assembly Bill 32. Thus,
the project's Greenhouse Gas Emissions are considered less than significant.
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Additional Information:
Additional information regarding the projects described in this notice can be obtained from the Oroville
Community Development Department at 1735 Montgomery Street, Oroville, CA. Anyone desiring to
submit information, opinions or objections is requested to submit them in writing to the Community
Development Department priorto the hearing. In accordance with Government Code Section 65009, if
you challenge an action on these projects in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you
or someone else raised at the public meeting described in this notice, or in written correspondence
delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public meetings.