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