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City of Brawley General Plan, Service Area Plan and Zoning Ordinance Update, City of Brawley, California.
Project Director for update of General Plan, Service Area Plan and Zoning Ordinance for City of Brawley. Reorganized and updated the City’s General Plan to be more “user friendly”, reflect new development and add three Mixed Use Overlay Designations to portions of to the downtown area. The Plan also developed the City’s Geothermal Element and updated the Zoning Ordinance to include new regulatory changes, incorporate the renewable energy issues. A new GIS based Zoning Map was created to reflect zoning on a parcel-by-parcel basis.
Rancho Cielo Specific Plan and Environmental Impact Report (EIR), Rancho Cielo Associates, San Diego County, CA
Project Director. Mr. Mooney prepared the Specific Plan and EIR on 3,000 acres in the County of San Diego. The project included a master-planned design that preserved over 70% of the site for biological and cultural resources. The master plan included over 700 residential units in physically distinct neighborhoods and two commercial districts, including a village center. The plan integrated riding and hiking trails and developed extensive design guidelines to assure architecture and landscape compatibility with the natural environment.
County of Imperial Geothermal/Alternative Energy and Transmission Element Update, County of Imperial, California.
Project Director for the 2007 update to this optional general plan element into the Geothermal/Alternative Energy Transmission Element. This element was updated to include significant changes created by proposals to produce and transmit energy from alternative energy sources including solar, wind and agricultural byproducts. Innovative concepts such as the coordination of major transportation and energy transmission corridors within the urbanizing areas of the county as well as the concentration of energy intensive land uses adjacent to the energy producing sites were proposed in the form of Energy Parks. In addition, the previously outdated mapping of the location and capacity of existing and proposed transmission corridors was updated.
Imperial Valley Solar Company 2 Draft and Final Environmental Impact Report , County of Imperial.
Mr. Mooney served as the Project Director for the Draft and Final Environmental Impact Report addressing the 2013 expansion of Imperial Valley Solar facilities in Niland California. The project included the expansion of an existing solar facility to add a 20 megawatt alternating current solar generation project on 158 acres and the construction of a 92-Kilovolt (KV) overhead gen-tie line interconnection to the Imperial Irrigation District Niland Substation. The project also included analysis of the Photovoltaic Modules, Electrical Power Systems, Electrical Connections and Wiring, Access, Security, Lighting, Site Construction, , Site Operations and Decommissioning. Key environmental issues included loss of agricultural lands, Biological resources with a special focus on the burrowing owl, cultural resources, air quality and aesthetics. The project was approved and the Environmental Impact Report certified without any legal challenges.
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The Mooney Planning Collaborative (MPC) provides public agencies, tribal governments and developers with innovative, cost effective, city and town planning programs in association with exhaustive environmental studies required under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
MPC brings together experienced planning and environmental professionals who offer clients a broad suite of services to meet the needs of individual projects or visionary long range General Plans or Master Plans. Our team of professionals has extensive experience in working with local agencies and Tribes as extension of staff or with community developers focusing on unique properties with complicated environmental issues.
MPC team members have lead planning and the associated CEQA and NEPA documents in many of California” most unique settings. These include all of the communities of San Diego County, foothills of Caliveras County, the Central Valley, Imperial Valley, Pasadena and greater Sacramento. Work for Tribal Governments has spanned the entire western United States.