What is the test for determining that a project has no significant environmental impact?

California, United States of America

The following excerpt is from E. Sacramento P'ship for a Livable City v. City of Sacramento, 209 Cal.Rptr.3d 774, 5 Cal.App.5th 281 (Cal. App. 2016):

CEQA grants agencies discretion to develop their own thresholds of significance (CEQA Guidelines, 15064, subd. (d)). (Save Cuyama Valley v. County of Santa Barbara (2013) 213 Cal.App.4th 1059, 1068, 153 Cal.Rptr.3d 534.) That discretion, however, is not unbounded, as the determination that the Project has no significant environmental impact must be supported by substantial evidence. ( 21168.5.) In

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