City staff’s all-out attempt to sell Valero oil train project
The following documents were released on January 28, when City of Benicia staff included them in their staff report to the Benicia Planning Commission, but they escaped my attention until today. I noted (and posted links to) the Agenda and Staff Report soon after their release. They appear on the Planning Commission page on the City website, but were not posted with the accumulation of project documents and public comments on the City’s Valero Crude By Rail page. At the bottom of the Staff Report are links to the significant documents you will find below. These Attachments are important – they represent our city staff’s impressive attempt to sell the Valero project to our Planning Commission.
- Agenda, Planning Commission Hearing, Feb. 8, 2016
- Staff Report recommending certification of the FEIR and approval of the project permit
- Attachment 1: Draft Resolution (Final Environmental Impact Report and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program)
- Attachment 2: Exhibit A 1: Statement of Overriding Considerations (Preemption)
- Attachment 3: Exhibit A 2: Statement of Overriding Considerations (Benefits Outweigh)
- Attachment 4: Exhibit B: Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
- Attachment 5: Draft Resolution (Use Permit)
- Attachment 6: Use Permit Application
- Attachment 7: Applicant’s Letter dated January 25, 2016
- Attachment 8: Aerial Photograph of Project Area
- Attachment 9: Project Plans
- Attachment 10: SJ McGovern Report for City of Benicia Valero Crude by Rail Project Economic Impacts
- Attachment 11: Valero’s Economic and Revenue Impacts Report, May 2014 by Andrew Chang & Company, LLC
- Attachment 12: Public Comments *