(a) Notwithstanding the time limit in subdivision (b) of Section 33492.18, the City Council of the City of San Diego shall certify an environmental impact report for the Naval Training Center Redevelopment Plan within 30 months after the effective date of the ordinance adopting that redevelopment plan.
(b) The following provisions shall apply to the approval of projects that implement a redevelopment plan authorized by this article:
(1) For 18 months after the effective date of the ordinance adopting the redevelopment plan, or until the certification of an environmental impact report for the redevelopment plan if the report is certified during that 18-month period, subdivision (c) of Section 33492.18 shall apply.
(2) If an environmental impact report for the redevelopment plan is not certified within 18 months after the effective date of the ordinance adopting the plan, then during the succeeding 12 months or until the certification of an environmental impact report if the report is certified during that 12-month period, no project, as defined in Section 21065 of the Public Resources Code, that implements the redevelopment plan shall be approved by the agency or the community unless any of the following occurs:
(A) The agency or the community has approved a negative declaration or certified an environmental impact report, or has certified a subsequent or supplemental environmental impact report, for the project before the expiration of the 18-month period provided in Section 33492.18.
(B) The agency or the community has certified a subsequent or supplemental environmental impact report for the project where the environmental impact report for the project was certified before the expiration of the 18-month period provided in Section 33492.18.
(C) The agency or the community complies with Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 21156) of Division 13 of the Public Resources Code for the subsequent projects described in a master environmental impact report as being within the scope of the report, and that master environmental impact report was certified before the expiration of the 18-month period provided in Section 33492.18.
(D) The project is categorically exempt pursuant to Article 19 (commencing with Section 15300) of Chapter 3 of Division 6 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
(Added by Stats. 1998, Ch. 586, Sec. 1. Effective September 18, 1998.)