CONTRA COSTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Governing Board will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at 6:00 p.m. in the Board Room, George R. Gordon Education Center, 500 Court Street, Martinez, California, to consider approval of the New Brentwood Center Project proposed on a 17-acre site located in the City of Brentwood in eastern Contra Costa County, generally west of the intersection of the State Route 4 (SR 4) Bypass and Marsh Creek Road. The site is within the larger Vineyards at Marsh Creek project area, and is a portion of Pioneer Square, located northeast of Vineyards Parkway. The project site is comprised on the following Assessor’s Parcel Nos.: 007-570-001, -003, -004, -005, -006 and -007, 007-580-001, -002, -003, and-004.

The project proposes the construction of a new education center, a satellite site of Los Medanos College, that would serve a maximum of 5,000 full- and part-time students. The center would have a total of ¬¬¬80 full-time and 200 part-time employees, including faculty and staff. As an education center, the proposed project would offer general education curriculum, but would not function as a full-service community college campus. Consequently, it would be limited to classrooms, laboratories and administrative and faculty offices and would not have other uses typically associated with a community college campus, such as a library, gymnasium, athletic fields, auditorium/theatre, cafeteria, bookstore, student union or other student services.

Two, approximately 44,000-square-foot buildings would be located near the center of the project site for a total of approximately 88,000 square feet of classroom/office space. Each building would be two stories and approximately 35 feet in height. A total of 1,366 parking spaces would be provided in two surface lots. A new circular roadway would provide access to the site from future Miwok Avenue, which would intersect Vineyards Parkway. A variety of drought-tolerant landscape materials would be planted throughout the site, including adjacent to the proposed buildings, within the parking lots and along the perimeter of the site. In addition, several existing mature oaks would be retained. In general, the site would be graded so that it would drain to the adjacent stormwater detention basin.

Notice is further given that the Governing Board will consider certification of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (Final SEIR) prepared to evaluate the potential environmental effects of the proposed project. Copies of the Final SEIR are available at the District office at 500 Court Street, Martinez, California. Comments will be received on the project and the Final SEIR until the close of the public hearing.

If anyone wishes to challenge this project in court, they may be limited to raising only those issues they or anyone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the District at, or prior to, the public hearing.

All inquires should be directed to Ray Pyle, Chief Facilities Planner, at (925) 229-1000 x1270 or RPyle@4cd.edu.