Item 37 - General Plan Amendment No. 2021-01 - 6th Cycle Housing Element Update

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Resolution No. 2022-XXX Page 3 of 5 J. All statements and findings contained in the 6th Cycle Housing Element Update are incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth. Section 2. State CEQA Guidelines section 15164 requires lead agencies to prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR or approved negative declaration 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 General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report and the Addendum, and finds that these documents taken together contain a complete and accurate reporting of all of the potential environmental impacts associated with the General Plan 6th Cycle Housing Element Update. The City Council further finds that the Addendum has been completed in compliance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines. The City Council further finds and determines that the 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 General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report and the Addendum, the City Council finds that an addendum is the appropriate document for disclosing the changes to the General Plan 6th Cycle Housing Element Update, 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 General Plan 6th Cycle Housing Element Update does not constitute a substantial change that would require major revisions of the General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report 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 General Plan 6th Cycle Housing Element Update will be developed that would require major revisions of the General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report 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 General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report was 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