AgdaPkt 2014-07-28 Closed, Special and Joint SA

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8.B. - Page 62 SECTION 1.0 INTRODUCTION, PURPOSE & CONCLUSION The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) recognizes that between the date an environmental document is completed and the date the project is fully implemented, one or more of the following changes may occur: 1) the project may change; 2) the environmental setting in which the project is located may change; 3) laws, regulations, or policies may change in ways that impact the environment; and /or 4) previously unknown information can arise. Before proceeding with a project, CEQA requires the Lead Agency to evaluate these changes to determine whether or not they affect the conclusion in the environmental document. The City of Redwood City prepared a Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Cambridge Academy Project (SCH# 2013012016). The project evaluated in the EIR proposed to operate a transitional kindergarten (TK) - 8th grade private school and after school program within an existing classroom building, the Fellowship Hall, located on the Redwood Baptist Church property at 2323 Euclid Avenue in Redwood City, California. The Fellowship Hall would be renovated to accommodate nine classrooms and a lunchroom. General school hours of operation would be Monday through Friday from 7:30 AM to 3:00 PM and extended after school care from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. Full capacity is anticipated to be reached during the sixth year of operation, at which time school enrollment would be up to 180 students. The purpose of this Addendum is to evaluate the environmental impacts of the following proposed changes to the project description: • Later start time from 8:OOAM to 8:10 AM, which is 10 minutes after Roosevelt School's 8:00 AM start time. • Reduced student enrollment from 180 students to 150 students. The CEQA Guidelines §15162 state that when an EIR has been certified or negative declaration adopted for a project, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in light of the whole record, one or more of the following: 1. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which 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 occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken which 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; or 3. 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 previous EIR was certified as complete 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 shown 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; or City of Redwood City 1 EIR Addendum Cambridge Academy Project April 4, 2014