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Conejo Recreation & Park District <br />GENERAL MANAGER BOARD OF DIRECTORS <br />Jim Friedl Chuck Huffer, Chair <br />George M. Lange, Vice Chair <br />Susan L. Holt, Director <br />Nellie Cusworth, Director <br />Doug Nickles, Director <br />GENERAL MANAGER EMERITUS <br />Tex Ward <br />DATE: November 21, 2019 <br />TO: Board of Directors <br />FROM: Jim Friedl, General Manag <br />SUBJECT: Rotary Club of Westla !V' a Oakheart Country Music Festival - 2020 <br />Annual Agreement and Permit Conditions, Conejo Creek Park <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />1. Determine that the Rotary Club of Westlake Village Oakheart Country Music Festival <br />(OAKHEART) for 2020 is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality <br />Act (CEQA). <br />2. Authorize General Manager to execute the OAKHEART Agreement for 2020. <br />CEQA COMPLIANCE <br />For the Board consideration and approval, District staff believes the event qualifies for a Class 23 <br />Categorical Exemption, pursuant to Section 15323 of the CEQA Guidelines. Class 23 exemptions <br />include normal operations of existing facilities for public gatherings for which the facilities were <br />designed, where there is a past history of the facility being used for the same or similar kind of <br />purpose. In this instance, the facilities at the Conejo Creek Complex, specifically the event at <br />Conejo Creek South and parking at Conejo Creek West and Conejo Creek Northwest (and off- <br />site at Thousand Oaks High School), were designed to hold large scale community wide events <br />and parking for such events. A shuttle bus system traveling along Janss Road, Moorpark Road <br />and Avenida de las Flores will connect the main venue at Conejo Creek South with Thousand <br />Oaks High School and Conejo Creek West and Northwest. <br />The facilities (District and CVUSD) have been used in various combinations, including all of them <br />together, to support similar size events (data gathered from newspaper reports, self -reporting, <br />and staff estimates - see Exhibit 1 for links to newspaper articles and other information) such as <br />Conejo Valley Days, Chili Cook -Off, Arbor Earth Day, Persian New Year, and Bark in the Park. <br />OAKHEART, as proposed with 10,000 maximum tickets fits within scope and scale of these <br />traditional and annual large-scale community events. <br />ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES <br />403 West Hillcrest Drive - Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-4223 <br />(805) 495-6471 • FAX: (805) 497-3199 • Email: parks@crpd.org • Website: www.crpd.org <br />