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Proposal to Prepare an EIR and Provide Planning Consulting Services for the First and Fourth Street Corridors Mixed -Use Overlav zone IS/NOP using the City's specified format for Initial Studies in order to narrowly focus the environmental issues addressed in the EIR. EIP will prepare and submit fifty copies of the IS/NOP to the City for public distribution. This scope of services assumes that the City will be responsible for public notice (including newspaper announcements) and mail distribution of the IS/NOP. If the City desires, EIP will revise this scope and modify the associated cost proposal to perform the IS/NOP public notice and distribution tasks on behalf of the City. Further, it is assumed that impacts to agricultural resources and mineral resources will be "scoped out" in the IS/NOP and would not be further analyzed in the EIR. If requested by the City, during the required 30 -day public review period of the IS/NOP, EIP will begin preparation of the EIR in order to reduce the overall project schedule. Subtask 2b: Participate in EIR Public Scoping Meeting During the required 30 -day IS/NOP public review period, EIP staff will participate in one EIR public scoping meeting and prepare and present an overview of the CEQA process. The focus of the scoping meeting will be to solicit the input of nearby residents, the community at -large, and local business organizations regarding the content of the EIR. EIP will facilitate, as well as answer and record public comments and input during the scoping meeting. EIP will provide a minimum of 50 copies of project information handout materials for distribution at the meeting. It is assumed that oversized graphics illustrating the proposed project would be provided by the City or the Project Applicants. After completion of the scoping process (30 -day IS/NOP public review period) and receipt of IS/NOP comments, EIP will identify issues for which no significant impacts will occur (described as Effects Found Not to Be Significant) and identify potentially significant impacts that will require further evaluation in the EIR. OUTPUT 1. Eight (8) unbound copies of the Draft IS/NOP for City staff review. 2. Fifty (50) copies of the Final IS/NOP, including one (1) camera-ready original and one (1) electronic copy. Should the City determine additional copies of the Initial Study are needed, their production would be treated as an Optional Task. 3. One (1) presentation of the CEQA process for use at the EIR Public Scoping Meeting. 4. Fifty (50) copies of project information handout materials for distribution at the EIR public scoping meeting. TASK 3: PREPARE ADMINISTRATIVE DRAFT EIR The objective of this task is to prepare a comprehensive, accurate, and objective EIR for the programmatic analysis of the MU zone and the project -level analysis of the two project properties that fully complies with CEQA, the CEQA Guidelines (as amended through the submittal of the Draft EIR), and the City's Environmental Guidelines. The main purpose of the Administrative Draft EIR will be to thoroughly and accurately analyze the environmental impacts of the proposed project. The document will be free of jargon so that the information it contains is accessible to decision -makers and the public. The methodology and criteria used for determining the impacts of the project will be clearly and explicitly described in each section of the EIR, including any assumptions, models, or modeling techniques used in the analysis. The