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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 18 increasing the housing density on the project site and re-zone the site so it is fully residential and consistent with the surrounding residential land uses to the east and south. CEQA Guidelines Updates The California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) updated the CEQA Guidelines effective December 2018; however, it should be noted that the General Plan EIR was certified prior to these changes to the CEQA Guidelines and used the older checklist questions. The Appendix N checklist questions from the updated CEQA Guidelines are utilized in this analysis. Specifically, impacts related to energy are discussed in Section 6, Energy, impacts related to tribal cultural resources per Assembly Bill (AB) 52 of 2014 are discussed in Section 18, Tribal Cultural Resources, and impacts related to wildfire are analyzed in Section 20, Wildfire. The updated CEQA Guidelines and Senate Bill (SB) 743 changed the criteria for determining what constitutes a significant transportation-related environmental impact based upon quantification of vehicle miles traveled (VMT) instead of level of service. CEQA Guidelines Section 15064.3(c) states the requirement to use the VMT criteria only applies on and after July 1, 2020. The following checklist of “environmental factors potentially affected” should be viewed in the context of General Plan EIR, which provided program-level analyses and “[do] not assess site- specific impacts.” This report presents the written checklist with references to the specific portions of the General Plan EIR that contain the analysis of the project's potential significant effects, including page and section references. For this reason, this analysis begins with reference to the project description in the General Plan EIR to demonstrate that the project is generally included in the overall plan area buildout described in the project description for the General Plan EIR. It should also be noted that all applicable mitigation measures from General Plan EIR have either been incorporated into the project or would be included in its Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and, if the project is approved, its Conditions of Approval.