Potentially Significant Impact definition

Potentially Significant Impact means that there is either substantial evidence that a project- related effect would be significant or, due to a lack of existing information, could have the potential to be significant.

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Potentially Significant Impact means there is substantial evidence that an effect may be significant.

Potentially Significant Impact means there is substantial evidence that an effect is significant, and no mitigation is possible.

Examples of Potentially Significant Impact in a sentence

• Potentially Significant Impact Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated Less than significant Impact No Impact a.

• Potentially Significant Impact Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated Less than Significant Impact No Impact In determining whether impacts on agricultural resources are significant environmental effects, lead agencies may refer to the California Agricultural Land Evaluation and Site Assessment Model (1997) prepared by the California Department of Conservation.

• Potentially Significant Impact Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated Less than significant Impact No Impact Where applicable, the significance criteria established by the applicable air quality management or air pollution control district may be relied upon to make the following determinations.

• The environmental factors checked below would be potentially affected by this Project, involving at least one impact that is a "Potentially Significant Impact" as indicated by the checklist on the following pages.

• Potentially Significant Impact Less than Significant With Mitigation Incorporation Less than Significant Impact No Impact Responses to a-b: Based on the foregoing, none of the conditions identified in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 exist that would trigger the need to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR or other environmental document to evaluate Project impacts or mitigation measures with regard to climate change.

More Definitions of Potentially Significant Impact

Potentially Significant Impact means there is substantial evidence that an effect may be significant. "Potentially Significant Unless Mitigation Incorporated" means the incorporation of one or more mitigation measures can reduce the effect from potentially significant to a less than significant level. “Less Than Significant Impact” means that the effect is less than significant and no mitigation is necessary to reduce the impact to a lesser level.

Potentially Significant Impact means there is substantial evidence that an effect may be significant related to the threshold under consideration.

Potentially Significant Impact means an impact that might cause a substantial adverse change in the environment (mitigation is recommended because potentially significant impacts are treated as significant).

Potentially Significant Impact is appropriate if there is substantial evidence that an effect may be significant. If there are one or more “Potentially Significant Impact” entries when the determination is made, an EIR is required.

Potentially Significant Impact means there is substantial evidence that an effect is significant, and no feasible mitigation is available to reduce the impact to “Less than significant”.

Potentially Significant Impact means there is an additional potentially significant effect related to the threshold under consideration that was not previously examined in the 2035 General Plan EIR.

Potentially Significant Impact means there is an additional potentially significant effect related to the threshold under consideration that was not previously examined in the MEIR.