Reso 2021-105 Callan & East 14th Project CUP, Parking and Site Plan

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WHEREAS, on September 19, 2016, the City Council approved a comprehensive citywide General Plan Update and Zoning Code amendments, which included a new vision for San Leandro, including Downtown San Leandro. The General Plan Update Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) (State Clearinghouse No. 2001092001) which was prepared for the General Plan Update and Zoning Code amendments and associated actions, analyzed the development intensities on a citywide impact level and adopted a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the San Leandro General Plan Update and Zoning Code amendments; and WHEREAS, on September 4, 2007, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2007-111 and certified the Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR) (State Clearinghouse No. 2006052102) for the Downtown San Leandro Transit -Oriented Development Strategy, which was prepared to identify 39 opportunity sites, representing approximately 88 acres, where development could occur in the City over the next 25 or so years (to 2030); and WHEREAS, pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Section 21000 et seq.; herein referred to as "CEQA"), the State of California Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (commencing with Section 15000 of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations; herein referred to as the "CEQA Guidelines"), the City is the "lead agency" for the preparation and consideration of environmental documents for the Project; and WHEREAS, in conformance with CEQA, including Public Resources Code Section 21094.5, and the CEQA Guidelines, including Section 15183.3 and CEQA Guidelines Appendix M, which establish eligibility requirements for projects to qualify as infill projects for streamlining procedures provided in CEQA Guidelines Section 15183.3, the City prepared an Infill Checklist for the Project to evaluate the environmental impacts of the Project. The Infill Checklist reviews the analysis in prior EIRs certified by the City to determine if the Project would result in new project specific effects or a substantial increase in the severity of significant impacts identified in prior EIRs, and whether uniformly applicable development policies would substantially mitigate these impacts; and WHEREAS, the Infill Checklist prepared for the Project tiers off the 2035 General Plan Update Environmental Impact Report (2016). This prior EIR was prepared as part of enacting the City's General Plan Update and Zoning Code amendments that implemented the Downtown Transit -Oriented Development (TOD) Strategy. The Infill Checklist demonstrates that any significant effects of the Callan & East 14th Street Project were analyzed in the prior EIRs or would be substantially mitigated by the City's uniformly applicable development policies (UADPs). The Infill Checklist also incorporates information from the Downtown TOD EIR (2007), which also qualifies as a prior EIR. Therefore, pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21094.5, no additional environmental review is required under CEQA for the Project as an infill project; and WHEREAS, the Board of Zoning Adjustments held a duly noticed public hearing regarding the proposed Project on May 6, 2021, at which time all interested parties had the opportunity to be heard; and RESOLUTION NO. 2021-105 2