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o Updated recommendations for amending the zoning code, including minimum density requirements for the RM zone, allowances for higher FARs for mixed use projects in the CC and CN zones, amendments to the second unit standards, additional allowances for SROs, and changes to the NA zone so that is more in line with the SA and D zones. • The Implementation Chapter (Chapter 7) has been updated for consistency with Chapter 6. Despite the large number of textual changes, the substantive direction provided by the 2003 Housing Element will not change. The basic goals remain appropriate and continue to be consistent with the other elements of the General Plan. As noted earlier, the anticipated development discussed in the Housing Element is part of the anticipated residential capacity identified in the previously adopted San Leandro General Plan and TOD Strategy. The Element identifies an existing zoning capacity for 2,716 new housing units in the city, which is substantially greater than the RHNA allocation. No Zoning Map changes will be required to achieve the quantified housing objectives listed in the 2010 Element. Consequently, the environmental impacts associated with adoption of the Element are minimal. The proposed updates to the objectives, policies and actions will not by themselves create physical development or result in any environmental impact beyond what was analyzed in the General Plan and TOD Environmental Impact Reports. Future projects on the sites identified in the Housing Element would be subject to project-specific environmental review. Environmental Checklist The Environmental Checklist and discussion that follows is based on questions provided in Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines. The questions focus on individual concerns within 17 different broad environmental categories such as air quality, cultural resources, land use, and traffic. The CEQA guidelines provide direction for preparing checklist responses. Each question in the Checklist requires a "yes" or "no" reply indicating whether or not the project will have a potentially significant environmental impact of a certain type. The Checklist table provides other possible replies to the questions, including one which indicates the project would have a "less than significant" impact, and another which indicates that the project could have a significant impact but that the impact can be avoided if mitigation measures are applied. The "less than significant" impacts correspond to those where relevant information, reports or studies demonstrate that the impacts would not exceed a threshold of significance established by the lead agency. Impacts that are "less than significant with mitigation" include those where it can be demonstrated that the incorporation of clearly defined mitigation measures into the project would avoid impacts or reduce them to less than significant levels. Earlier analyses may be used where, pursuant to the tiering, program EIR, or other CEQA process, an effect has been adequately analyzed in an earlier EIR or negative declaration (Section 15063(c)(3)(D) of the Guidelines). In this case, a brief discussion should identify the earlier analysis used, the impacts that were previously addressed, and the mitigation measures that were applied. Housing Element Initial Study and Negative Declaration 7 February 2010