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ZOA No. 2024-02 & AA No. 2024-03 (Transit Zoning Code Amendments Supplemental Staff Report to February 24, 2025 Planning Commission Staff Report) March 6, 2025 Page 5 3 3 6 7 ZOA No. 2024-02 and AA No. 2024-03 are considered a project as defined by the CEQA. The City, as the Lead Agency, has determined that it is subject to CEQA guidelines and regulations (Public Resources Code (PRC) Sections 21000-21177). An Addendum, attached as Exhibit 5, 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 the 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, as detailed in the General Plan Consistency subsection of the Planning Commission’s February 24, 2025 staff report, attached as Exhibit 6 (February 24, 2025 Planning Commission Staff Report, without attachments), 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. FISCAL IMPACT There is no fiscal impact associated with this action. EXHIBITS 1. March 3, 2025 Transit Zoning Code (SD-84) Community Meeting Summary Planning Commission 1 – 5 3/6/2025