Join the Monterey Bay-Silicon Valley Chapter of AEP for our latest virtual lunch briefing! Are you writing bad mitigation measures or know others who are? Stop it! This session is geared towards CEQA practitioners that work on tailoring project specific mitigation measures. Darcy Kremin and Florentina Craciun are here to help you write feasible, tangible, and trackable mitigation measures. We will review the 'DOs' and 'DON'Ts' of deferred mitigation and how to capture the essence of mitigation measures. Sometimes we do not know when or even how those measures will be implemented in the future, therefore we need to tailor mitigation measures that allow for flexibility. In this lunch briefing, we will describe the good, the bad and horrendous mitigation measures we encountered. We will take those measures, word for word, and point out common and not-so-common mistakes, and how to fix them before we ever publish a CEQA document. This briefing is both for well and under seasoned CEQA professionals.
About Darcy Kremin. Darcy Kremin, AICP, is a Senior Principal Planner at ESA in Oakland, California. Darcy has over 23 years of environmental planning experience, and specializes in CEQA and NEPA compliance, particularly for school projects, mixed-use infill projects, utility projects, among others. Recently, she has managed multiple CEQA documents for Housing Element and General Plan updates throughout the Bay Area. She received her M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University and her B.A. in Geography/Environmental Studies and Political Science from UCLA.
About Florentina Craciun. Florentina Craciun, AICP, is a Senior Environmental Planner with the San Francisco Planning Department. Florentina has 12 years of environmental planning experience, working in both the public and private sectors. Her project experience includes land development, long range plans/programs, and capital improvement and infrastructure projects. She specializes in CEQA streamlining for urban development projects and is passionate about making CEQA more user friendly, while supporting sustainable development. Florentina has a BA in History from UC Santa Barbara, and an MA in Urban and Regional Planning from UCLA.
