The City will be re-circulating the 2008 HMNMH Master Plan Project, Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report, (RDEIR) due to a conflicting date in the notice for comments. In the notice, there are two “end comment” dates; August 11 and August 8 for the 45-day response period.

Due to this conflict, and in the City’s continuing efforts to provide excellent public participation to the public it serves, the City will re-start the 45-day process to ensure full and complete opportunities for the public to comment. The new comment period will begin on August 13, 2008 and end at 5 p.m. on September 29, 2008.

Additionally, there will be a public hearing on the 2008 RDEIR on September 9, 2008 at the regularly scheduled City Council meeting, beginning at 6 p.m. at City Hall, Council Chambers, 23920 Valencia Boulevard, Santa Clarita. The City wants to make sure that everyone who wishes to participate in the comment process for the Hospital expansion project has an opportunity to do so.

The 2008 Revised Draft Environmental Impact Report currently being circulated for the Henry Mayo Newhall Memorial Hospital expansion project is the third EIR to circulate on this project.

The City provided a hard copy of the 2008 document to Smart Growth SCV and SCOPE. Hard copies of the 2008 RDEIR have also been available at the local libraries, City Clerk’s Office at City Hall, the Planning Counter at City Hall, since June 26, 2008, along with all of the appendices. Requests for copies of the documents can be made to the

City during normal business hours by contacting the City’s planning division at 661-255-4330.

Further, a copy of all Revised Draft EIR documents has been available on the City’s website at www.santa-clarita.com  since June 26, 2008. Anyone requesting a copy of the documents was provided with them. All known requests for documents have been fulfilled by the City. The City is unaware of any requests for these documents that have not been fulfilled.

At the end of the new 45-day comment period for the 2008 RDEIR, City staff will provide written responses to all written and oral comments. 

To date, a total of nine Planning Commission hearings on the project have been held between October 2005 and November 2006. A total of five public hearings on the project have been held at the City Council between June 2007 and September 2007.