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ATTY/RESO.0074/CC RESO 847 WOODSIDE (CEQA) REV: 10-23-24 VR Page 3 of 4 Section 3. CEQA. In the exercise of its independent judgement, based on the facts and evidence in the Record, the City Council finds that: a. The CEQA Consistency Checklist was prepared in accordance with all legal requirements. b. The City Council has reviewed and analyzed the CEQA Consistency Checklist and other information in the entire Record and has considered the information contained therein, including the written and oral comments received at the public hearing on the Project, prior to acting upon or approving the Project. c. Based on substantial evidence in the record, the proposed Project is adequately analyzed and addressed in the previously certified GPU EIR for the purposes of CEQA. The Statement of Overriding Consideration and MMRP associated with the certification of the GPU EIR address the environmental effects of the Project. Accordingly, with the approval of this Project, all applicable mitigation measures and the Statement of Overriding Consideration are hereby reconfirmed and readopted. d. Because the Project is an affordable housing project, it is entitled to a State Density Bonus in accordance with Government Code Section 65915 and as such is consistent with density provided in the Housing Element of the General Plan for which the Focused GPU EIR was certified as well as the density permitted by the Zoning Code. In addition, affordable housing projects receive protection under the Housing Accountability Act; and, if a housing development project is entitled to a density bonus under the Density Bonus Law (Government Code Section 65915), the density bonus does not count as a violation of the local general plan, zoning code, etc. Likewise, if a housing development project is entitled to waivers or concessions of local rules under the Density Bonus Law, those waivers or concessions do not count as violations of the local general plan, zoning code, or city regulations. e. As set forth in CEQA Guidelines Section 15183, subdivisions (a), (b), and (d), for the reasons stated in the Record, the proposed Project is consistent with the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance which provides the necessary policies and standards to accommodate the proposed development density. Further, as discussed in the Consistency Checklist, there are no environmental effects which are peculiar to the Project or its site, nor are there any new significant effects that were not already identified and analyzed in the certified GPU EIR, nor are there any potentially significant off-site impacts or cumulative impacts that were not already identified and analyzed in the certified GPU EIR, nor is there substantial new information which was not known at the time of the certification of the GPU EIR that identifies any significant effects which will have a more severe adverse impact than discussed in the certified GPU EIR. The feasible mitigation measures specified in the GPU EIR have been included in the Project’s Conditions of