2020-033 - Approving and Adopting an Addendum to the Environemental Impact

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SECTION 2. State CEQA Guidelines section 15164 requires lead agencies to prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions to the project are necessary, but none of the conditions requiring preparation of a subsequent EIR are present. The City Council has reviewed and considered the 2004 EIR and the 2020 Addendum, and finds that these documents taken together contain a complete and accurate reporting of all of the potential environmental impacts associated with the proposed development. The City Council further finds that the 2020 Addendum has been completed in compliance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines. The City Council further finds and determines that the 2020 Addendum reflects the City's independent judgment. SECTION 3. Based on the substantial evidence set forth in the record, including but not limited to the 2004 EIR and the 2020 Addendum, the City Council finds that an addendum is the appropriate document for disclosing the changes to the subject property, and that none of the conditions identified in Public Resources Code section 21166 and State CEQA Guidelines section 15162 requiring subsequent environmental review have occurred, because: (a) The Mixed-Use Project does not constitute a substantial change that would require major revisions of the 2004 EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. (b) There is not a substantial change with respect to the circumstances under which the Mixed-Use Project will be developed that would require major revisions of the 2004 EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of the previously identified significant effects. (c) New information of substantial importance has not been presented that was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the 2004 EIR was certified or adopted, showing any of the following: (i) that the modifications would have one or more significant effects not discussed in the earlier environmental documentation; (ii) that significant effects previously examined would be substantially more severe than shown in the earlier environmental documentation; (iii) that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects, but the applicant declined to adopt such measures; or (iv) that mitigation measures or alternatives considerably different from those analyzed previously would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but which the applicant declined to adopt. SECTION 4. The City Council hereby finds that mitigation measures identified in the 2004 EIR remain applicable to the One Broadway Plaza mixed-use development. Resolution No. 2020-033 Page 3 of 7