Item 14 - Award of a Construction Contract for Bristol St and Memory Lane Intersection

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT ADDENDUM Bristol Street and Memory Lane Intersection Improvements — Project No. 17-6883 1. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revision o, f the previous VR tMe to the involvement o, f ne w significant environmental effects `ecis or a substantial increase to the severity of previously identified significant e, f fects; 2. Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaWn which will require major revision of the previous EIR dace to the involvement of .new sig4fcant environmental increase in the severity ofpreviouslyidentjied significant effects, or 3. New information ofsubstantial importance, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete, shows any of the following: (A) The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; (B) &gni cant efects previously exarnined will be substantiaRy more severe than shown in the previous EIR; (C) Mtigation 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,) Mtigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more signifiicant effects on the environ- ment but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15162[a]) A Supplement to an EIR (or Supplemental EIR), which is narrower in scope than a Subsequent EIR, may be prepared if any of the above criteria apply, but "only minor changes or additions would be necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project in the changed situation" (CEQA Guidelines Section 15163[a][2]). In the absence of the need to prepare either a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR, an Addendum may be prepared. More specifically, CEQA Guidelines Section 15164 states: (a) The lead agency or a responsible agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified VR if some changes or aMtions are necessary but none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of asnbsequent EIR have occurred (b) An addendum to an adopted negative declaration may be prepared if only minor technical changes or additions are necessary or none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for the ,preparation of a subsequent EIR or negative declaration have occurred tc) An addendum need not he circulatedfor public review bid can be included in or attached to the final EIR or adopted negative declaration. (d) The decision -making body shall consider the addendum with the final EIR or adopted negative declarationprior to making a decision on the project (e) A brief explanation of the decisions not to prepare a subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 should he included in an addendum to an EIR, the lead agency's findings on the project, or elsewhere in the record The explanation must be supported bysubstantial evidence. This Addendum to the previously certified FEISIEIR for the approved Bristol Street Widening Project has been prepared because the evaluation of the proposed modifications does not result in any of the circumstances requiring a Subsequent or Supplemental EISIE[R. Although the proposed modifications would result in development that differs from that in the 1990 FE[SIE[R, those modifications do not trigger the need for preparation of a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR under the criteria listed in CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15163, respectively. Section 2.4, Environmental Checkitst, and Section 3.4, Environmental Consequences, of this Addendum demonstrate that no substantial changes would result from the proposed Project modifications nor have the existing conditions in the Final I December 2017 1-2 Introduction