Reso 2022-213 Housing Element Supplement EIR

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WHEREAS, the General Plan EIR identified potentially significant environmental impacts and related mitigation measures, which the City adopted together with mitigation findings and a Mitigation Monitoring Program, which mitigation measures and monitoring program continue to apply to development in the City; and WHEREAS, the General Plan EIR is available for review on the City's website or in the Community Development Department and is incorporated herein by reference. The General Plan EIR examined the direct and indirect effects, cumulative impacts, broad policy alternatives, and areawide mitigation measures for the development contemplated by the 2035 General Plan; and WHEREAS, CEQA Guidelines Section 15163 provides that a lead agency may choose to prepare a supplement to an EIR rather than a subsequent EIR if any of the conditions described in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 would require the preparation of a subsequent EIR and only minor additions or changes would be necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project in the changed situation; and WHEREAS CEQA Guidelines 15162 describes the conditions under which a supplemental EIR would be an appropriate document for actions not considered in the Final EIR. A supplemental EIR is appropriate when: I. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR or negative declaration 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 or Negative Declaration due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; or 3. New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete or the Negative Declaration was adopted, shows any of the following: a. The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR or negative declaration; b. Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; c. Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible, and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or d. Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. RESOLUTION NO.2022-213 2