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tic SON -•— o CITY OF SAN LEANDRO eit A NEGATIVE DECLARATION Notice is hereby given that the City of San Leandro finds that no significant effect on the environment as prescribed by the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, will occur for the following proposed project: I. PROJECT NAM San Leandro General Plan Consistency Amendments (PLN 2011 -I) PROJECT APPLICANT: City of San Leandro 835 East 14 Street San Leandro, CA 94577 Contact: Phil Millenbah, Project Manager PROJECT LOCATION: Citywide 11. PRO.IECT DESCRIPTION: The project is an amendment to the San Leandro General Plan in order to ensure internal consistency between the General Plan (adopted in 2002). the Downtown Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy (adopted in September 2007), and the Housing Element (adopted in April 2010). The TOD Strategy established land uses and densities in the area around the BART Station that differed from those in the General Plan. The Station area was subsequently rezoned to reflect the TOD Land Use Plan. A series of text and map amendments are now proposed to incorporate the TOD Strategy into the General Plan. No changes to the General Plan Map are being proposed except those that reflect the previously approved TOD Strategy. An EIR was prepared for the TOD Strategy in 2007. The proposed amendment also replaces the Executive Summary of the Housing Element (General Plan Chapter 9) with an updated Summary that reflects the 2007 -2014 Housing Element. The current Chapter 9 summarizes the 1999 -2006 Housing Element and is now outdated. An Initial Study and Negative Declaration were prepared for the 2010 Housing Element and adopted in April 2010. Both of the changes described above are administrative in nature and do not substantively change allowable land uses or development intensities in the city. III. MANDATORY FINDINGS OF SIGNIFICANCE This project tiers off of Environmental Impact Reports prepared for the General Plan and the Downtown Transit - Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy. All impacts associated with the consistency amendments have been found to be less than significant, given the findings and mitigation measures already in effect under the General Plan EIR and the TOD Strategy EIR.