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City of San Leandro 2824 Halcyon Drive Residential Project 96 Library Services The City of San Leandro Public Library (SLPL) currently operates five facilities in the city. The closest facility is the South Branch located approximately 0.5 mile north of the project site. Project residents may use this and other branches of the SLPL which would result in increased use of these facilities. However, the General Plan EIR concluded that the SLPL would need to increase the hours of operation to accommodate future demand under the General Plan. The wide range of resources the SLPL offers online would reduce the amount of physical materials and thus physical library space that would necessitate the building of a new library facility. Besides the Mulford-Marina Branch location that is planned to undergo redevelopment as part of the San Leandro Shoreline Development project, no other libraries are planned to be built (City of San Leandro 2020). Furthermore, implementation of General Plan Goal LU-4 and Policy LU-4.3 focused on ensuring new residential development contributes its fair share toward the provision of public facilities would ensure adequate library services are available to City residents. The General Plan EIR does not conclude that new facilities or physical expansion of existing facilities would be required to serve residents at buildout. As the project’s population was accounted for in the General Plan EIR projections, this conclusion would remain valid. As a result, impacts associated with new or physically altered library facilities and services would be less than significant. Conclusion The project would have a less than significant impact on public services, the same as the impacts identified in the General Plan EIR, would not result in new specific effects that were not addressed in the General Plan EIR, and would not require new mitigation measures. Accordingly, no additional review is required.