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City of San Leandro Bay Fair TOD Zoning Update and Minor Specific Plan Amendments Project The 2018 EIR determined that impacts to air quality; biological resources; cultural, tribal cultural and paleontological resources; and noise could be reduced to less than significant levels with mitigation. Mitigation proposed in the 2018 EIR included: ■ Reducing construction air quality emissions per the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAAQMD) control measures; ■ Conducting biological resources screening and assessment; ■ Conducting special -status plant species surveys, avoidance, minimization, and mitigation; • Implementing restoration and monitoring of special -status plant species; ■ Conducting endangered/threatened species habitat assessments, protocol -level surveys, avoidance, and minimization; ■ Implementing non -listed special -status animal species avoidance and minimization; ■ Implementing a worker environmental awareness program during construction; ■ Implementing an invasive weed prevention and management program; ■ Conducting jurisdictional delineations for potential wetlands; ■ Protecting native amphibians; ■ Documenting and evaluating the historical built environment for demolition or alteration of buildings or structures greater than 50 years old; ■ Conducting Phase 1 archaeological inventories and resource avoidance measures; ■ Conducting a paleontological resource assessment and avoidance measures; ■ Conducting consultation with California Native American tribe(s) following any discovery of unanticipated tribal cultural resources; and ■ Implementing construction noise reduction measures. Impacts to transportation and traffic were determined to be significant and unavoidable in the 2018 EIR, despite the implementation of proposed mitigation measures, which would improve signal timing at Hesperian Boulevard and Halcyon Drive, and East 14t" Street and Fairmont Drive. Although the 2018 EIR did not discuss energy and wildfire as separate resource areas, energy was discussed in terms of consistency with the 2017 Clean Air Plan, as well as electricity and natural gas consumption of the project, and in Section 5.3 of the prior Draft EIR. Energy impacts were determined to be less than significant with no mitigation required. Additionally, wildland fires were addressed as part of the hazards and hazardous materials analysis. The 2018 EIR determined there would be no impact related to wildfires. Proposed Project This discussion groups impact topics to allow a concise analysis of similar or related issue areas. Aesthetics. The proposed project would not increase the height limitations, block length restrictions, type of development or intensity of development allowed in the Plan Area. While the proposed Zoning Code changes do include the establishment of minimum densities, the specification of these standards is intended to regulate development consistent with the adopted Specific Plan and would not result in an increase in intensity or type of use as compared to the 2018 EIR analysis. Thus, the proposed project would not result in a new impact or a substantially more severe impact to aesthetics.