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15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred.” Pursuant to Section 15162(a) of the State CEQA Guidelines, a subsequent EIR or Negative Declaration is only required when: (1) 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. B. DISCUSSION SAFER hereby requests that the City prepare an environmental impact report (“EIR”) to analyze the significant environmental impacts of the Project and to propose all feasible mitigation measures and alternatives to reduce those impacts. The City may not rely on the 1983 EIR for several reasons, including but not limited to the following: 1. The 1983 EIR did not analyze this Project. None of the previous projects proposed for the Project site include any residential units. In contrast, the Project does contain a residential component, including 1,900 housing units. A prior CEQA document may only be used for a later project that is “essentially the same project” as was analyzed in the prior document. Sierra Club v. County of Sonoma (1992) 6 Cal.App.4th 1307, 1320; American Canyon Community v. American Canyon, 145 Cal.App.4th 1062. The 1983 EIR did not analyze a project with a residential component at all. 2. The Project is a substantial change from what was analyzed in the 1983 EIR, requiring more than just technical changes. The addition of 1,9000 residential units where there were not nein the original project constitutes a substantial change.