Ordinance 2534-01 - Laserfiche WebLink

A. The applicability of the exemptions shall be determined by the responsible official for each application received for a license, or for each governmental proposal initiated by the city. The determination of whether or not a proposal is exempt shall be made by ascertaining that the proposal is properly defined and by identifying the governmental license required (WAC 197-11-060). The responsible official's determination that a proposal is exempt shall be final and not subject to administrative review. B. If a proposal includes a series of actions, physically or functionally related to each other, some of which are exempt and some of which are not, the proposal shall not be exempt. C. If the proposal includes a series of exempt actions which are physically or functionally related to each other, but which together may have a probable significant adverse environmental impact, the proposal shall not be exempt. D. 1. If it is determined that a proposal is exempt, none of the procedural requirements of this chapter shall apply to the proposal. No environmental checklist shall be required for an exempt proposal. 2. Provided, however, that the city may itself prepare and use an environmental checklist to review a proposal whenever it would assist in its planning and decision making process. E. If a proposal includes both exempt and nonexempt actions, exempt actions may be authorized with respect to the proposal prior to compliance with the procedural requirements of these guidelines subject to the following limitations: 1. No nonexempt action shall be authorized; 2. No action shall be authorized which would limit the choice of alternatives; 3. The responsible official may withhold approval of an exempt action which would lead to modification of the physical environment, when such modifications would serve no purpose if later approval of a nonexempt action is not secured; 4. The responsible official say withhold approval of exempt actions which would lead to substantial financial expenditures by a private applicant which would serve no purpose if later approval of a nonexempt action is not secured. BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY SUPERSEDED BY THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY'S LOCAL PROJECT REVIEW PROCEDURES ORDINANCE. SECTION 15: That Section 3D of Ordinance No. 1348-87 (EMC 20.04.150) which reads as follows: 20.04.150 Environmental checklist. A. Except as provided in WAC 197-11-315(1)(a), a completed environmental checklist, or a copy thereof, substantially in the form provided in WAC 197-11-960 shall be filed at the same time as, or before, an application for a permit, license, certificate or other entitlement or approval for actions not specifically exempted in this chapter. This checklist shall be the basis for a determination by the city as to lead agency status, and if the city is determined to be the lead agency, then for making the threshold determination. 18