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General Plan Amendment No. 2021-01 July 19, 2022 Page 7 ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), an addendum to the Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the General Plan Update certified April 2022 has been prepared for the General Plan Amendment for the 6th Cycle Housing Element Update. Under CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, an addendum to a previously certified EIR shall be prepared when a lead agency is asked to approve modifications to an existing project for which an EIR has already been certified. An addendum evaluates the requested modifications and determines whether subsequent review is required. Moreover, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, a subsequent or supplemental EIR is not required unless the lead agency determines that one or more of the following conditions are met: 1) Substantial project changes are proposed that 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 would occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken that require major revisions to 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 that was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified 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 identified 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. D. Mitigation measures or alternatives that are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponent declines to adopt the mitigation measures or alternatives. City staff evaluated the proposed changes and concluded that they would not result in new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified effects that were previously disclosed in the PEIR for the General Plan Update. In addition, the City concluded there is no new information of substantial importance showong that the r:cncrol Pion Amct2dmcnt fnr the Pith ryrlc Hni icing Flcmcnt Nniill hove City Council 37 — 7 7/19/2022