Public hearing for a development agreement on a battery energy storage system.

CITY OF ADELANTO
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing for the following project will be held in the Adelanto Event Center at 12000 Stadium Way, Adelanto, California 92301, on   Wednesday, May 13, 2026, at 11:00 AM.
 
TO PARTICIPATE, please call, email, or send mail to the contact info provided below.
 
PUBLIC HEARING: ORDINANCE NO. 664- A Development Agreement between the City of Adelanto and Hidalgo Energy Storage LLC for a 30-year period to allow a Battery Energy Storage System, (BESS) of up to 400 MW including an SCE and project substations on a vacant 40 acre parcel located on the northeast corner of Raccoon Road and Holly Road within the Manufacturing Industrial (MI) Zone in the City of Adelanto (APN: 3128-081-01-0000)

RECOMMENDATIONS: Introduce for the First Reading of Ordinance No. 664 for Development Agreement No. DA 26-01 and adopt findings for a Section 15183 CEQA Exemption dated April 2025
 
ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION:
 
California Public Resources Code section 21083.3 and California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15183 provide an exemption from additional environmental review for projects that are consistent with the development density established by existing zoning, community plan or general plan policies for which an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) was certified, except as might be necessary to examine whether there are project-specific significant effects which are peculiar to the project or its site. Section 15183 specifies that examination of environmental effects shall be limited to those effects that:

(1) Are peculiar to the project or the parcel on which the project would be located, and were not analyzed as significant effects in a prior EIR on the zoning action, general plan, or community plan, with which the project is consistent,
(2) Are potentially significant off-site impacts and cumulative impacts which were not discussed in the prior EIR prepared for the general plan, community plan or zoning action, or
(3) Are previously identified significant effects which, as a result of substantial new information which was not known at the time the EIR was certified, are determined to have a more severe adverse impact than discussed in the prior EIR.Section 15183(c) further specifies that if an impact is not peculiar to the parcel or to the proposed project, has been addressed as a significant effect in the prior EIR, or can be substantially mitigated by the imposition of uniformly applied development policies or standards, then an additional EIR need not be prepared for that project solely on the basis of that impact.
 
All of our meetings are streamed live at https://adelanto.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=1 and are also available for playback after the meeting.      
To Participate and Call in for public comments:
 
Please call 1-669-900-6833 US Toll Webinar ID: 931-4644-4676 along with Passcode 7601 Should you wish to speak on the item push *9, you will be placed in the que. 
 
Submit written comments:
We encourage submittal of written comments supporting, opposing, or otherwise commenting on an agenda item, for distribution to the City Council prior to the meeting. Send emails to blopez@adelantoca.gov; written correspondence may be sent to Brenda Lopez, 11600 Air Expressway Adelanto CA 92301.
 
The proposed project application plans and environmental documents may be reviewed by appointment during regular business hours at the Adelanto City Hall, as City Hall is closed to the public except by appointment.  The Planning Division, located at 11600 Air Expressway, Adelanto, California 92301.  Further information or to make an appointment to review information concerning this matter, please contact the Planning Division at (760) 246-2300 Ext.11142.
 
 
May 3 2026
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