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3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL CHECKLIST 1388 Bancroft Avenue Project City of San Leandro Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration November 2018 3.0-66 According to Government Code Section 65996, payment of such fees constitutes full mitigation of any school impacts under CEQA. Therefore, any impacts from the increase in school enrollment would be offset by the required payment of development fees. This impact is considered less than significant. d) Less Than Significant Impact. Development of the project site with residential uses under the proposed project would result in about 128 additional people living in San Leandro, thereby increasing demand for park services. SLRHS parks in the vicinity of the project site include Memorial Park (approximately 440 feet to the north), Root Park (approximately 2,800 feet to the west), and Chabot Park (approximately 4,800 feet to the east). As described in Section 2.0, Project Description, the project would include 12,297 square feet of open space, including 6,067 square feet of private open space and 6,230 square feet of common open space. Common open space would include a rooftop patio, a ground-floor community room, and a tot lot and sports lawn area outside adjacent to the parking lot. To address the additional park needs of the proposed project, avoid overuse of existing parks, and avoid a deficiency of parkland acreage in the city, the project applicant would be obligated to comply with City requirements for park land dedication and/or payment of a park land acquisition fee, and payment of a park improvement fee. The applicant would pay a park land acquisition fee of $14,126 per multi-family residential unit (the rate for Fiscal Year 2018/2019), for a total of $635,670, due at the time of building permit issuance. The applicant would also pay a park improvement fee of $2,279 per multi-family residential unit (the rate for Fiscal Year 2018/2019), for a total of $102,555, due at the time of building permit issuance. The City considers payment of park fees as adequate mitigation of development impacts to nearby recreation facilities. Therefore, this impact is considered less than significant. e) Less Than Significant Impact. Development of the project site with residential uses under the proposed project would result in about 128 additional people living in San Leandro, thereby increasing demand for library services. The City’s General Plan EIR noted that buildout of the General Plan would result in 14,790 new residents in the city by 2040 and that the San Leandro Public Library indicated that it would need to increase the hours of library operation in order to accommodate future demand (San Leandro 2016b). The number of residents introduced by the project would be less than 1 percent of growth anticipated in the General Plan EIR and would not be considered significant. In addition, the EIR noted that there are current plans to construct a new modern facility at the existing Mulford-Marina Branch location. In December 2017, the City issued a Request for Proposals for design of the replacement library, including demolition of the existing library building and construction of new improvements consisting of a new 2,500-square-foot library building, program room, parking lot, landscaping, and an outdoor patio or plaza. Construction of this project has not yet begun, and the completion date is unknown. The library offers a wide range of materials available through its online databases. An increase in service population would not necessarily result in the need for a larger book or magazine collection, which typically requires additional library space. The San Leandro Public Library is primarily funded by county property taxes, which new development in San Leandro, including the project, would have to pay. Therefore, the impact related to the provision of library services under the proposed project would be less than significant.