George Britton 
      714/834-5312
      brittong@pdsd.co.orange.ca.us

The EPPSD staff strives to provide a wide range of planning products and services for unincorporated Orange County. Included are documentation pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act, the County’s General Plan, development agreements, data sets and technical analyses primarily in the areas of transportation modeling, demographics and air quality. Our efforts involve providing support to County offices and partnering with other entities, both public and private.

Environmental & Project Planning Services consists of four sections: Advance Planning, Environmental Planning, Public Projects, and Transportation Planning. The following describes the services provided by each section.

Advance Planning
Contact: Ron Tippets, Chief (phone: 714/834-5394, E-mail: tippetsr@pdsd.co.orange.ca.us)

• Maintains the Orange County General Plan
• Updates and maintains Orange County Housing Element
• Prepares and analyzes the County’s demographic projections
• Maintains the County’s Williamson Act (agricultural preserve) contracts
• Key staff support of Census 2000 related programs
• Supports CEO and LAFCO on County’s external restructuring (annexations & incorporations)

Environmental Planning
Contact: Trish McNally, Chief (phone: 714/834-3763, E-mail: mcnallyt@pdsd.co.orange.ca.us)

• Responsible for County of Orange compliance with, and implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Statues and Guidelines
• Prepares and processes environmental impact reports, negative declarations, initial studies, categorical exemptions and other CEQA related documentation for private projects
• Functions as County’s control center for coordination and preparation of comments and responses regarding environmental issues
• Interfaces between County departments and applicants on environmental issues for private projects
• Reviews all private project environmental impact reports and coordinates applicant’s interface with the public, including noticing, holding meetings, and distributing documentation
• Provides technical support for environmental issues for PDSD

Public Projects
Contact: Bob Aldrich, Chief (phone: 714/834-2166, E-mail: aldrichr@pdsd.co.orange.ca.us)

• Processes environmental (CEQA) requests for public projects initiated by the County
• Coordinates and provides review comments for environmental documents furnished to the County by outside public agencies (i.e., cities, State offices, public utility districts, etc.)
• Acts as a liaison to the California State Coastal Commission on project and planning requirements within the unincorporated Orange County coastal zone
• Provides staff support to the Orange County Development Agency for planning and redevelopment activities within Santa Ana Heights
• Provides technical site planning and engineering support to the department for special project analysis

Transportation Planning
Contact: Harry Persaud, Chief (phone: 714/834-3669, E-mail: persaudh@pdsd.co.orange.ca.us)

• Provides transportation planning services including MPAH amendments and development review
• Prepares traffic forecasts and analyses
• Prepares air quality project analyses
• Administers AB 2766 funds
• Negotiates and maintains development agreements
• Provides support to PFRD on Measure M Growth Management Areas and bikeways

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Notices of Preparation
1999 Fiscal Impact Guidelines
CEQA Procedures – Coming Soon
Environmental Information Form – Coming Soon
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