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CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />RE: Exhibit A -CONSISTENCY MEMORANDUM FOR THE SLTC MIXED-USE PROJECT (PLN16-0067) <br />JULY 17, 2017 <br />Page 4 <br /> <br />Service 455 <br />Total 30,096 <br />Total Building Area 220,638 <br />Source: TCA Architecture 2017. <br />Construction <br />Project construction would last approximately 20 months and would entail grading, excavation, building <br />and parking garage construction, asphalt and hardscape paving, landscaping, and architectural coating <br />(i.e., painting). <br />Construction vehicles would access the site via Davis Street, Marina Boulevard, and San Leandro <br />Boulevard.. Roads would not be closed during construction, and all road access would be maintained. <br />BACKGROUND AND LEGAL STANDARDS <br />The City of San Leandro Downtown Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy guides long-range <br />physical development and re-development of the 502-acre area in and around the downtown area of San <br />Leandro, centered at the intersection of East 14th and Davis streets. The City Council adopted the <br />Downtown San Leandro TOD Strategy on September 4, 2007. The Downtown San Leandro TOD <br />Strategy Environmental Impact Report (EIR) analyzed the physical impacts of Downtown TOD Strategy <br />implementation and was certified on June 5, 2007 (SCH #2006052102). The EIR addressed impacts <br />related to aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, greenhouse gas emissions, <br />geology, soils, and seismicity, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, land use <br />and planning, noise, population and housing, public services and recreation, transportation, and utilities <br />and service systems. The EIR is a program EIR, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15168. <br />CEQA provides that after a public agency certifies an EIR (including a program EIR, such as for a general <br />plan or other comprehensive land use plan), the agency must consider whether further environmental <br />review is required for a subsequent discretionary decision. Three sets of provisions in CEQA and the <br />CEQA Guidelines address the requisite analysis. Whether a supplemental EIR or other environmental <br />document must be prepared depends on an analysis of the subsequent activity. <br />CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15183 <br />Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15183, a public agency need not prepare an EIR or negative <br />declaration for a project that is consistent with a community plan, existing zoning, or general plan policies <br />for which an environmental document has been certified. CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 specifically <br />states: <br />(a) CEQA mandates that projects which are consistent with the development density established by <br />existing zoning, community plan, or general plan policies for which an EIR was certified shall not <br />require additional environmental review, except as might be necessary to examine whether there are <br />project-specific significant effects which are peculiar to the project or its site. This streamlines the <br />review of such projects and reduces the need to prepare repetitive environmental studies. <br />(b) In approving a project meeting the requirements of this section, a public agency shall limit its <br />examination of environmental effects to those which the agency determines, in an initial study or <br />other analysis: <br />150