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Environmental Checklist <br />Population and Housing <br /> <br />General Plan Consistency Checklist 73 <br />14 Population and Housing <br /> <br />Significant <br />Impact <br />Less than <br />Significant or <br />Less than <br />Significant <br />with <br />Mitigation <br />Incorporated No Impact <br />Analyzed in <br />the Prior EIR <br />Would the project: <br />a. Induce substantial unplanned population <br />growth in an area, either directly (e.g., by <br />proposing new homes and businesses) or <br />indirectly (e.g., through extension of <br />roads or other infrastructure)? □ ■ □ ■ <br />b. Displace substantial numbers of existing <br />people or housing, necessitating the <br />construction of replacement housing <br />elsewhere? □ □ ■ ■ <br />Analysis in the General Plan EIR <br />The General Plan EIR discusses population and housing in Section 4.11 and determined impacts to <br />be less than significant with no mitigation measures required. The General Plan EIR accounts for a <br />population of 101,250 at full buildout of the 2035 General Plan. <br />The following describes the analysis included in the General Plan EIR and provides a streamlined <br />review to determine whether there would be project-specific impacts that are either 1) peculiar to <br />the project or the parcel on which the project is located; 2) were not previously analyzed in the <br />General Plan EIR as significant effects; 3) are potentially significant off-site impacts and cumulative <br />impacts that were not previously discussed in the General Plan EIR; or 4) are now determined to <br />have a more severe impact than discussed in the General Plan EIR due to substantial new <br />information. <br />Project-Specific Impacts <br />a. Would the project induce substantial unplanned population growth in an area, either directly <br />(for example, by proposing new homes and businesses) or indirectly (for example, through <br />extension of roads or other infrastructure)? <br />The General Plan EIR estimated a population increase of 14,790 and a housing unit increase of 5,370 <br />in 2035 from buildout of the 2035 General Plan. The proposed project would result in approximately <br />57 new residents4 (California Department of Finance 2018). This is within buildout analyzed in the <br />General Plan EIR. Furthermore, the project would be consistent with the City’s density projections in <br />the 2035 General Plan. In addition, the project does not include new roads or other infrastructure <br />that would indirectly induce substantial unplanned population growth. Therefore, the project would <br /> <br />4 Calculation: 20 housing units x 2.85 equals approximately 57 new residents.