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q.�-Zq A� Dowmowa Mnced-Uee Re4il/Cittma Projat - CEQA REQUIREMEN3'S RELATING TO THE PROJECT � Previous Environmental Review Relatine to t6e Site . The City of Redwood City previously p�epared end ceRiSed an EIR evaluating flu impacts of a mixed- � ProJ� ��PY�B �'o blocks of downWwn Redwood City (Blocks I and 2; sec p. 8). EIR Addendum as t6e Repuired CEOA Docnment for This Proiect In accordance with CEQA Guidelines § 15164, the City of Redwood City, as lead agency, has prepared this Addrndum to the previously certified EIIt on the downtown mixed-use retaiUcinema project in order to address the proposed change in the configutation of the project' The Califomia Environmrntal Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code §21000 et seq.) requires a lead agency to prepaze an Addendum to a previously certificd EIR if soa� changes or additions are nx- essary, but none of the conditions described in CEQA Guidelines §15162 requiring the preparation of a subsequent EIR k�ave occucred. According to the Califomia Code of Regulations (§15162), which pro- vides a more complete explanation: (a) When an EIR kias been ceitified or a negative declazation adapted for a project, no subse- quent EIR shall be prepared for fl�at project unless the lead agency dete�mines, on the basis of substantial evidence in the light of the whole xecord, 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 effecu or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; (2) Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the pmject is undertaken wlrich will require major revisions of the previous EIR or negative declara- tion due to t6e involvement of new signi5cant environmrntal effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified signi5cant effecu; or (3) New info:mation of substantial importance, which was not Imown and could not have been lmown with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIIt was certified as complete or the negabve declazation was adopted, shows any of the following: (A) The project will have one or more sigaificant effecu not discussed in the previous EIR or negative declaradon; (B) Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; (C) Mitigation measures or altematives previo:�sly found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially redace one or more significant effects of the project, but the project proponents dec,line to adopt the mitigation measure or altemative; or (D) Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effecu on the environment, but the project proponencs decline to adopt the miti- gation measure or altemative. � 3 This Addendum was prepazed by the Ciry of Redwood City with the usistance of Mundie & Associates, Consultants in Land Use and Economics, and Fehr & Peers Associates, transportzzion consultants. 13