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WHEREAS, the City Council desires to update the San Leandro Zoning Code, by adding Chapter 2.10, Bay Fair Transit -Oriented Development (B-TOD) District, to implement the Specific Plan and more specifically identify the standards for development within the Specific Plan Area; and WHEREAS, the City Council also desires to update the Specific Plan's standards and requirements for both publicly accessible and private open space, and implement these standards through the Zoning Code; and WHEREAS, new residential and non-residential uses in the Specific Plan Area will be required to provide certain minimum amounts of publicly accessible open space, as further specified in the Specific Plan and Zoning Code Chapter 2.10; and WHEREAS, the City Council desires to amend minor portions of the Specific Plan and General Plan to ensure consistency between the two, as well as with the proposed Zoning Code Chapter 2.10; and WHEREAS, the City released the proposed text of Zoning Code Chapter 2.10 for a two - week public review on or before August 21, 2020 and held a virtual public community meeting to solicit feedback on the zoning update on September 1, 2020; and WHEREAS, public input was further solicited through a dedicated project website and through a meeting of the Planning Commission on July 2, 2020; and WHEREAS, the proposed adoption of San Leandro Zoning Code Chapter 2.10 and other amendments to the San Leandro Zoning Code, the proposed amendments to the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan, the proposed amendments to the San Leandro General Plan, and the proposed amendments to the San Leandro Municipal Code are collectively referred to as the "Project"; and WHEREAS, the City prepared an Environmental Impact Report ("EIR") to identify the potential environmental impacts of the Bay Fair TOD Specific Plan; and WHEREAS, on February 20, 2018, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2018-008 certifying a Final Environment Impact Report (the "EIR") entitled, "Bay Fair Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Specific Plan Environmental Impact Report SCH#2017032016" and adopting a Mitigation Monitoring and Report Program for the Specific Plan; and WHEREAS, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq., and the State CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 require that when an EIR has been certified for a project, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in light of the whole record, that one or more of the following exists: 1. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; 2. Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement RESOLUTION NO. 2020-149 2