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0 Conejo Recreation & Park District GENERAL MANAGER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jim Friedl Doug Nickles, Chair Nellie Cusworth, Vice Chair George M. Lange, Director Susan L. Holt, Director Chuck Huffer, Director DATE: December 16, 2021 GENERAL MANAGER EMERITUS TO: Board of Directors Tex Ward FROM: Jim Friedl, General Mana er SUBJECT: Coney Valley Days — 202- nual Agreement and Permot Conditions, Conejo Creek Park RECOMMENDATION 1. Determine that Conejo Valley Days (CVD) for 2022 is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). 2. Authorize the General Manager to execute the CVD Agreement for 2022. CEQA COMPLIANCE For the Board consideration and approval, District staff believes the event qualifies for a Class 23 Categorical Exemption, pursuant to Section 15323 of the CEQA Guidelines. Class 23 exemptions include normal operations of existing facilities for public gatherings for which the facilities were designed, where there is a past history of the facility being used for the same or similar kind of purpose. In this instance, the facilities at the Conejo Creek Complex, specifically the event at Conejo Creek South and non-exclusive parking at Conejo Creek North, were designed to hold large scale community -wide events and parking for such events. The facilities have been used in various combinations, including all of them together, to support similar size events (data gathered from newspaper reports, self -reporting, and staff estimates - see Exhibit 1 for links to newspaper articles and other information, such as Oakheart Country Music Festival, Chili Cook - Off, Arbor Earth Day, Persian New Year, and Bare in the Park). CVD, as proposed, fits within the scope and scale of these traditional and annual large-scale community events. Thus, based on the foregoing, staff finds and recommends the board determine that the CVD is a usual community event and that there are no "unusual circumstances" presented by the event as proposed which would affect the determination that CVD qualifies for a categorical exemption. DISCISSION After the cancellation of CVD 2020 due to COVID-19, CVD representatives made great efforts to provide CVD 2021 for the overall community benefit. Usually taking place in May, CVD 2021 was successfully conducted in July to accommodate the easing of restrictions for patrons. ADMINISTRATIVE O FF�CES 403 West Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360-4223 805-495-6471 1 Fax: 805-497-3199 1 parks@crpd.org I www.crpd.org