San Bruno wanted a Transit Corridor Plan for the future, anticipating using CEQA streamlining provisions for individual projects. It also wanted to leverage the City’s prime location between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, its proximity to San Francisco International Airport and a new Caltrain station (commuter rail). The Plan area includes three major corridors, a dying downtown main street and El Camino Real, a main arterial that was lined with underused spaces. 

Work on the Plan was integrated with the EIR so that the design and development standards proactively reduced potential environmental impacts. The EIR work scope focused on: aesthetics, air quality, climate change, cultural and historic resources, hazards and hazardous materials, land use, noise, population and housing, public services, utilities and transportation.

Because the EIR was comprehensively prepared anticipating CEQA streamlining, the EIR is now the foundation of MIG’s ongoing, on-call CEQA services for the City.

To date, MIG has completed six initial studies, concluding that each project is consistent with the EIR and that no further CEQA work was required. All the projects have been approved.