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THIRD ADDENDUM TO THE SAN LEANDRO SHORELINE DEVELOPMENT EIR <br />CITY OF SAN LEANDRO <br />May 2022 Page 3 <br />1. Introduction <br />1.1 BACKGROUND, PURPOSE, AND SCOPE <br />This document is the Third Addendum to the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared for the San <br />Leandro Shoreline Development Project (State Clearinghouse No. 2013072011), which was certified <br />by the City of San Leandro in July 2015 (Certified EIR).1 In accordance with the California <br />Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), this Third Addendum analyzes proposed modifications to the San <br />Leandro Shoreline Development Project, approved in 2015 and updated in 2020 and 2022. This Third <br />Addendum demonstrates that all of the potential environmental impacts associated with the <br />proposed modifications would be within the envelope of impacts evaluated in the Certified EIR and <br />the first and second addenda. <br />1.2 CEQA AUTHORITY FOR ADDENDUM <br />Pursuant to Section 21166 of CEQA and Section 15162 of the CEQA Guidelines, when an EIR has been <br />certified or a negative declaration adopted for a project, no subsequent EIR or negative declaration shall <br />be prepared for the project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in the <br />light of the whole record, that one or more of the following conditions are met: <br /> Substantial project changes are proposed that will require major revisions of the previous EIR or <br />negative declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a <br />substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; <br /> <br />1 This Addendum is the third Addendum to the Certified EIR. The City of San Leandro approved the first Addendum to the <br />Certified EIR on February 24, 2020, which included a general plan amendment and zoning map amendments, in alignment with <br />the modified development program, and the import of fill to meet flood zone regulations. The approved development program <br />includes: <br />• New 210-room hotel with attached restaurant; <br />• Two-story restaurant /banquet facility; <br />• Up to 500 housing units; <br />• Market/café; <br />• Demolition within the Harbor Basin area and construction of a 9-acre community park on Mulford Point; <br />• New Mulford-Marina Branch library; <br />• Redesigned nine-hole golf course; <br />• Reconstruction of Monarch Bay Drive, including a Class I bike facility; and <br />• Related site improvements, including publicly accessible trails, landscaped areas, access drives, and parking lots <br />throughout the project area. <br />The second Addendum, for Vesting Tentative Tract Map (VTTM) 8633, establishing seven parcels west of Monarch Bay Drive <br />between Marina Boulevard and Fairway Drive that align with the planned Monarch Bay Shoreline public-private partnership on <br />approximately 58.5 acres of the City-owned Shoreline Area will be submitted for City Council Approval on May 16, 2022. <br />