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GAVIN NEWSOM MARKS,GHILARDUCCI GOVERNOR DIRECTOR Cal OEC GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES March 8, 2019 Mr. Giuseppe Sanfilippo Associate Planner San Joaquin County 1810 E Hazelton Avenue Stockton, CA 95205 Subject: City of Stockton PA-1800043, Gas Station and Convenience Store Notice of Completion (NOC) and Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration (ISMND) Environmental Document Transmittal, SCH No. 2019029031 Dear Mr. Sanfilippo: Thank you for the opportunity to review and comment on the City of Stockton's California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) Notice of Completion (NOC)and Initial Study Mitigated Negative Declaration (ISMND)for PA-1800043, a gas station and convenience store project proposed by Ms. Janet Blincoe. Since one of the areas the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services(Cal OES) provides community support is disaster response and recovery, our review and comment focuses on whether the potential project impacts address relevant topics such as wildfires and flooding. Although relatively new, the 2019 CEQA Environmental Checklist Form includes Wildfire and Energy topics to be evaluated as "Environmental Factors Potentially Affected" in view of California's recent wildfire disasters. Therefore, I recommend utilizing the updated Checklist Form. Further, it appears the Environmental Checklist used for the subject project is abridged addressing only 16 of 21 required topics. The topics that appear omitted include: Agriculture & Forestry, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Minerals, Recreation and Tribal Cultural Resources In addition, the 2019 CEQA Environmental Checklist Form is inclusive of the following four selections to categorize the estimated project impacts to the environment: "Potentially Significant Impact," "Less than Significant Impact with Mitigation Incorporated," "Less than Significant Impact," and "No Impact." Instead, a binary "Yes/No" selection was used to indicate whether an impact could occur for an environmental topic in the Checklist, rather than addressing the multiple questions for each environmental topic. In fact, for the 16 environmental topics used, the determination "no" was selected for each. I recommend the 2019 CEQA Environmental Checklist Form be used in which the four standard questions to characterize potential impacts be used.