Item 20 - Second Reading of Zoning Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) No. 2024-02

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ZOA No. 2024-02 & AA No. 2024-03: Transit Zoning Code (SD-84) Amendments Second Reading June 17, 2025 Page 4 5 1 1 3 regulations (Public Resources Code (PRC) Sections 21000-21177). An Addendum to the Transit Zoning Code Environmental Impact Report (EIR) (State Clearing House (SCH) No. 2006071100) has been prepared by the City. Based on its independent review and analysis, and the administrative record as a whole, and, in exercising its independent judgement, hereby finds that pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, no subsequent EIR would be required for the proposed project; and pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164, an addendum to the Transit Zoning Code EIR is required for the adoption of the Ordinances. Specifically, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162, the City finds on the basis of substantial evidence in light of the whole record, that: (1) no substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; (2) no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of the EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; and (3) there is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the EIR was certified as complete, that shows any of the following: (A) the project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the EIR; (B) significant effect previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the 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; or (D) mitigation measures or alternative which are considerably different from those analyzed in the EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. Additionally, the proposed Ordinances are consistent with numerous General Plan goals and policies that were evaluated as part of the General Plan Update Program EIR. The proposed Ordinances also satisfy and further implementation actions of the General Plan Update. On June 9, 2025, a Notice of Determination was filed for the project. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this action. EXHIBITS 1. Ordinance for ZOA No. 2024-02 (with June 3, 2025 City Council Revisions) 2. Ordinance for ZOA No. 2024-02 (clean, final copy) 3. Ordinance for AA No. 2024-03