Cabrillo Business Park

The proposed project (“Project”) will develop the currently vacant 7.6-acre Lot 19 of the Cabrillo Business Park (CBP), located at 6701 Discovery Drive (formerly 355 Coromar Drive), with a new research and development (R&D) facility (Project). The R&D facility is comprised of three (3) new buildings and related site improvements. The main R&D building, Building A, is comprised of 98,847 SF (net) with two stories and third-story mezzanine elements, located in the central portion of the Project site. Building A is supported by Building B, a single-story mechanical/electrical building (not occupied), and Building C, a three level 231-space parking structure. A portion of the first floor of the parking structure (Building C) is devoted to employee amenity uses, including a fitness room, showers/restrooms, bicycle, miscellaneous storage areas, and utility areas (5,383 SF, net). The total net building floor area of the Project is 104,230 SF. The Project also includes screened yard areas that contain ground-mounted electrical/mechanical equipment, above ground tanks to store helium, nitrogen, and back up fuel supplies, and other outdoor storage needs. The Project site is developed with an existing stormwater detention basin at the southern (rear) portion of the site. The Project does not propose any modifications to the existing detention basin area. The Project will serve as the primary research and development location to build, test, refine, and improve prototype quantum computing machines that will one day be manufactured for use by end-users to facilitate new processes and solutions across different industries and platforms. The Project falls within the scope of the CBP Specific Plan, approved earlier as part of the CBP Final Environmental Impact Report (“EIR”) (SCH No. 2000041129) previously certified on April 30, 2007. The CBP Specific Plan sets out steps for development projects on individual lots which will be processed and approved through a Project Clearance application. Here, the Project will be developed on Lot 19 of the CBP Specific Plan. The City prepared a Consistency Analysis with the CBP Final EIR, which includes a checklist analyzing the consistency of the proposed Project to the CBP Specific Plan requirements. Based on the Consistency Analysis, and pursuant to State CEQA Guidelines sections 15162 and 15168(c)(4), no subsequent or supplemental EIR is required for the proposed Project because of the following: • No substantial changes are proposed in the Project which will require major revisions of the previously certified CBP EIR (SCH No. 2000041129) due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; • There are no substantial changes in the circumstances under which the Project will be undertaken that will require major revisions to the previously certified CBP EIR due to the involvement of significant new environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effect; and, • No “new information of substantial importance” exists, as set forth in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3).