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Ali Pezeshkpour, AICP Re: MainPlace Mall Transformation Project EIR Addendum May 10, 2019 Page 2 the public will benefit from more time to process this massive amount of information. Furthermore, the City should provide ample time to provide responses to comments, so that members of the public may feel that their opinions have been heard and so that the City will provide a real opportunity and time to consider these comments. If the Planning Commission were to approve this Project just six days after the Project’s EIR addendum was released, it would indicate to members of the public that the City is hastily attempting to jam one of the City’s largest projects in recent memory through the approval process with the minimum possible amount of public involvement. In addition, it is clear the 1983 EIR is outdated, and the City cannot rely upon any information, facts, or analysis contained in this document in 2019. Reliance on any portion of a 36-year-old EIR released for an entirely different project and not based on up-to-date baseline conditions, facts, and modern scientific understanding of environmental impacts fails the informational purposes of CEQA. (Berkeley Keep Jets Over the Bay Committee v. Board of Port Com'rs (2001) 91 Cal.App.4th 1344, 1367 (“By using scientifically outdated information . . . the EIR was not a reasoned and good faith effo rt to inform decision makers and the public” of the environmental impacts of the project.).) The City must prepare release an entirely updated EIR designed specifically for the Project . The information in the 1983 EIR is outdated to the point of being mis-informational. Southwest Carpenters thanks the City for providing an opportunity to comment on the Addendum to the EIR. Pursuant to Section 21092.2 of the Public Resources Code and Section 65092 of t he Government Code, Southwest Carpenters requests notification of all CEQA actions and notices of any public hearings concerning this Project, including any action taken pursuant to California Planning and Zoning Law. In addition, pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21167(f), please provide a copy of each Notice of Determination issued by the City in connection with this Project and please add Southwest Carpenters to the list of interested parties in connection with this Project and direct all notices to my attention. Please send all notices by email or, if email is unavailable, by U.S. Mail to the following two addressees: Nicholas Whipps Ashley McCarroll Wittwer Parkin LLP 335 Spreckels Dr., Ste. H Aptos, CA 95003 nwhipps@wittwerparkin.com amccarroll@wittwerparkin.com