TO: Napa County Climate Action Committee
FROM: Brian D. Bordona, Director of Napa County Planning, Building & Environmental Services
REPORT BY: Jesse Gutiérrez, Principal Planner, Sustainability
SUBJECT: Adopt a Resolution Recommending Napa County Jurisdictions adopt the Napa County Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan
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RECOMMENDATION
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Adopt a resolution recommending that the six member jurisdictions in Napa County adopt the Napa County Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan and the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration
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BACKGROUND AND DISCUSSION
On September 25, 2026, the Climate Action Committee (CAC) received a presentation from Ascent Environmental and project staff on the plan development process to date and, based on questions and concerns expressed by the CAC members at previous meetings, two options for moving forward with the final Regional Climate Action and Adaptation Plan (RCAAP) as drafted.
Proceed on the path to recommending the adoption of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) qualified RCAAP maintaining its current final form, or
Pivot to a “framework” version of the RCAAP that would revise the current draft by removing the CEQA-qualified components written into the plan, remove the Consistency Checklist, and republish a clean “framework” version.
The CAC directed staff to proceed with the first option listed above and present the CEQA-qualified RCAAP to the CAC for a recommendation, and later to the member jurisdictions for adoption.
Today the CAC is being asked to discuss and adopt a resolution recommending adoption of the Final CEQA-qualified Napa County RCAAP and the accompanying Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration (IS/MND). If the resolution to recommend adoption of the RCAAP is adopted by the CAC, it will be forwarded to each of the member jurisdictions and included for their consideration with the RCAAP and IS/MND. A draft Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) was prepa...
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