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7.A. - Page 123 1.O lntroduction and Statement of Purpose General Plan objectives. The General Plan FEIR serves as the environmental document for the MUC Zoning Amendment. 1.2 Le al Re uirernents g a Section 15168 of the CEQA Guidelines allows a program EIR to be prepared for "a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project."Activities within the program that occur after the program EIR is adopted "must be examined in the light of the program EIR to determine whether an additional environmental document must be prepared." If the lead agency finds that none of the conditions listed in Section 15162(a) of the Guidelines are present (as outlined below), it can approve the activity as being within the scope of the project covered by the program EIR without preparing a new environmental document. (CEQA Guidelines, Section 15168(c)(2)). Per Section 15162(a) of the CEQA Guidelines, when an EIR or negative declaration for a project has been prepared, a subsequent EI R is required for the project if: 1) Substantial changes are proposed in a 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; or 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 significant new 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 d) Mitigation measures or alternatives which are substantially different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. The Guidelines state that a lead agency "shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred" (CEQA Guidelines, Section 15164[a]). The Guidelines also state that an addendum need not be circulated for public review but can be included in or attached to the prior environmental documentation for consideration by the decision-making body. However, "a brief explanation of the decision not to prepare a subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 should be included in an addendum to an EIR, the lead agency's required findings on the project, or elsewhere in the record" (CEQA Guidelines, Section 15164[e]) and supported by substantial evidence. The subsequent sections of this Addendum provide the explanation of the decision not to prepare a subsequent EIR and the related substantial evidence. Although the City is not required to prepare an addendum or any other Redwood City Mixed Use Corridor District 2 Addendum to General Plan FEIR Zoning Ordinance Amendment