Winzler & Kelly has extensive experience with the entire CEQA / NEPA process. We guide clients through complex and controversial projects and complete the entire process including research, document preparation and circulation, public participation and community outreach, lead public hearings, and the preparation of resolutions and findings. We have prepared numerous Initial Studies/Negative Declarations, EIRs, EAs, Categorical Exemptions, Mitigation Monitoring Programs, and necessary supporting studies for a wide variety of projects. Our supporting studies and activities have included endangered species surveys and consultations with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the California Department of Fish & Game, and the California Coastal Commission. We have also prepared riparian mitigation designs and implementations, cultural resource investigations, State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) consultations, noise and air quality assessments, and traffic studies.

In addition, and often in conjuncture with CEQA / NEPA studies, Winzler & Kelly can assist you through the often confusing permitting process. We can assist in identifying regulatory agencies involved with your project and help you develop a project that satisfies the regulatory requirements. We maintain a staff of professional planners, environmental specialists, biologists, and stormwater experts, as well as the other professionals required to succeed in obtaining the permits necessary to make projects happen. Our planners can help evaluate zoning and building requirements and obtain special use permits, modify sphere of influence and service area boundaries, affect zoning changes, and work with permitting agencies to help projects conform to agency requirements.

To achieve planning and permitting requirements, we bring experience with the following services:

• Wetlands Delineations
• Section 7 Consultations
• Stream Bed Alteration Agreements
• Section 404 Permits for Filling Wetlands
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans
• Wetlands Mitigation Design
• Traffic Studies
• Noise Studies
• Dust and Odor Studies
• Water Quality Certifications
• Archaeological Investigations
• Initial Studies and Environmental Impact Reports
• Mitigation Planning and Monitoring
• Rezoning
• Lot Line Adjustments and Subdivisions
• Conditional Use Permits
• Sphere of Influence Modifications
• Farmland Conversion