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411/ RESOLUTION NO. 704 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS ADOPTING GUIDELINES IMPLEMENTING THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT OF 1970 AS AMENDED. WHEREAS, the State of California has adopted the Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, (CEQA) set forth in Public Resources Code 21050-21174, which requires all public agencies to adopt objectives, criteria and procedures for its implementation (21082); and WHEREAS, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills desires by these local guidelines to combine into its planning, review and project approval process the necessary procedures to determine whether or not a project has a significant effect on the environment; and WHEREAS, it is necessary that the criteria and the procedures provide for an adequate and objective report on the effect to the environment of the applicable project; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED as follows: I. DEFINITIONS. The following definitions shall apply in connection with this Resolution. a) "DECISION MAKING BODY." The Board of Planning Administra- tion, Environmental Planning Commission, or City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills, whichever has Town authority with respect to an action on a project, shall be the Decision Making Body. Where the decision is made in conjunction with planning, zoning or other matters which are subject to appeal under the ordinances and regulations of the Town, the decision on environmental impact shall be subject to the same rules of appeal as is the other matter being decided. b) "GUIDELINES." That document entitled Guidelines for Imple- mentation of the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, adopted by the California Resources Agency on February 3, 1973, and promulgated by the Secretary for Resources and including any amendments thereto, being Division 6, Title 14, California Administrative Code. c) "Environment, "Environmental impact report," "Local agency," "Public agency," "Project," "Person," and "Lead agency" shall be those definitions ascribed to them, respectively, in Public Resources Code 21060.5-21067. d) All of those definitions set forth in the Guidelines 15020 through 15040, which includes and expands those definitions provided in c) above. II. CONFLICTS. In the event there is any conflict between the Public Resources Code sections and the Guidelines sections the Public Resources Code shall govern. In the event there is any conflict between the Public Resources Code and these local guidelines the provisions of the Public Resources Code shall govern. III. INFORMATIONAL DOCUMENT. The purposes and objectives of an Environ- mental Impact Report (EIR) are prescribed as follows (Guidelines 15012): An Environmental Impact Report is an informational document which, when fully prepared in accordance with the CEQA and these local -1-.