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comments asserted that the process was rushed and inadequate time was provided for the public to participate In developing the GPU and in reviewing and commenting on the EIR. At the November 9, 2020, the Planning Commission extended their project review and recommendation to a date uncertain. City staff has decided to prepare and distribute a Recirculated PEIR for public review CONDITIONS TO RECIRCULATE PEIR State CEQA Guidelines section 15088.5 defines the circumstances under which a lead agency must recirculate an EIR. A lead agency is required to recirculate an EIR when significant new information is added to the EIR after public notice is given of the availability of the Draft EIR but before certification of the Final EIR. Such information can include changes In the project or environmental setting as well as additional data or other Information. New information added to an EIR Is not considered "significant" unless the EIR is changed In a way that deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to comment upon a substantial adverse environmental effect of the project or a feasible way to mitigate or avoid such an effect (Including a feasible project alternative) that the project's proponents have declined to implement. As defined in. State CEQA Guidelines section 15088.5(a), significant new Information requiring recirculation is that which shows any of the following: •1. A new significant environmental Impact would result from the project or from a new mitigation measure proposed to be Implemented. 'L. A substantial increase in theseverity of an environmental impact would result unless mitigation measures are adopted that reduce the Impact to a level of insignificance. 3. A feasible project alternative or mitigation measure considerably different from others previously analyzed would clearly lessen the environmental imparts of the project, but the project's proponents decline to adopt it. 4. The draft EIR was so fundamentally and basically inadequate and conclusory in nature that meaningful public review and comment were precluded, OPTIONS FOR RECIRCULATION Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5, if the required revision Is limited to a few chapters or portions of the EIR, the lead agency need only recirculate the chapters or portions that have been modified, A Recirculated EIR .requires the same noticing and consultation as the original Draft EIR (CEQA Guidelines Sections 15086 and 15087). CEQA allows two different ways to respond to comments on the Recirculated Draft EIR: 1) When an EIR Is substantially revised and the entire document is recirculated, the lead agency may require reviewers to submit new comments and, in such cases, need not respond to those comments received during the earlier circulation period, or; 2) When the EIR Is only revised part and the lead agency Is recirculated only the revised chapter or portions of the EIR, the lead agency may request that reviewers limit their comment to the revised chapters or portions of the recirculated EIR. the lead agency need only respond to (i) comments received during the Initial circulation period that relate to chapters or portions of the document that were not revised and recirculated, and (ii) comments received during the January 28, 20211 Page 2