Samoa Town Master Plan

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The County of Humboldt will be processing applications for the subdivision and phased development of the Samoa Town Master Plan (STMP) lands. Based on the tentative map and new information available, it was determined that project implementation could have one or more significant effects not discussed in the STMP Master Environmental Impact Report (MEIR) certified on October 27, 2009 by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. This Supplemental Master Environmental Impact Report (SMEIR) builds upon the STMP MEIR and focuses on potential environmental impacts that could occur due to new information of substantial importance that was not known or could not have been known at the time of the 2009 MEIR certification, and changes in the circumstances under which development of the STMP would occur. The overall scope of the STMP project has been reduced from what was analyzed in the MEIR in terms of total acres of proposed development, number of proposed new residential units, and acres of business park development. Therefore, most of the project impacts are the same or reduced from those described in the MEIR; however, there are new project factors to be analyzed, and there have been changes to the CEQA Guidelines that affect the analysis in this document.