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2. Introduction <br />Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines, Chapter 14 California Code of <br />Regulations, Section 15378[a], The San Leandro Shoreline Development is considered a "project" subject <br />to environmental review as its implementation is "an action [undertaken by a public agency] which has <br />the potential for resulting in either a direct physical change in the environment or a reasonably <br />foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment." This Draft Environmental Impact Report (Draft <br />EIR) provides an assessment of the potential environmental consequences of adoption and <br />implementation of the San Leandro Shoreline Development project, herein referred to as the "Project" <br />This Draft EIR identifies mitigation measures and alternatives to the Project that would avoid or reduce <br />significant impacts. This Draft EIR compares the development of the Project with the existing baseline <br />condition, described in detail in each section of Chapter 4.0, Environmental Analysis. The City of San <br />Leandro (City) is the Lead Agency for the Project. This assessment is intended to inform the City's <br />decision -makers, other responsible agencies, and the public -at -large of the nature of the Project and its <br />effect on the environment. <br />2.1 PROPOSED ACTION <br />If approved by the San Leandro City Council, the Project would result in the redevelopment of the <br />properties surrounding the current San Leandro Marina. The Project site is 52 acres in land area and is <br />owned by the City of San Leandro, and 23 acres of water area. The Project is the result of a public/private <br />partnership between the City of San Leandro and Cal Coast Companies LLC. The Project includes a variety <br />of components which are described in detail in Chapter 3 of this Draft EIR. The salient components <br />include a new 150,000 square foot office campus, a new 200 -room hotel, a new conference center, 354 <br />new housing units, 3 new restaurants, and a new parking structure. Although direction from the San <br />Leandro City Council to staff is to maintain the existing San Leandro Marina for as long as financially <br />feasible, for the purpose of the environmental analysis, it is being assumed that the harbor masters office, <br />fuel pump/dock, and the 462 existing boat slips in the harbor basin would eventually be removed by the <br />City at such time as safe and navigable boating operations cease to exist. Since the Project is to be carried <br />out as a partnership between the City and Cal Coast Companies LLC, and the City would need to issue a <br />variety of discretionary permits, pursuant to section 21065 of the CEQA statute, the Project is defined as a <br />"project" under CEQA and is subject to the provisions of the statute. <br />2.2 EIR SCOPE <br />This document is a project -level EIR that identifies and analyzes potential environmental impacts of the <br />Project. This is in contrast to programmatic EIRs which are used to assess the impact of land use plans <br />where specific uses and plans for construction have not yet been determined. As a project -level EIR or <br />project EIR, the environmental analysis primarily focuses on the changes in the environment that would <br />PLACEWORKS 2-1 <br />