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7.A. - Page 33 Redwood City Chapter 1.Introduction standards and thresholds adopted by other public agencies with jurisdiction over select environmental issues are used as thresholds of significance.Also,accepted technical and scientific data are used in other instances to determine if an impact would be considered significant. In cases where the Appendix G of the CEQA Guidelines,adopted City policies,standards or thresholds have changed since the certification of the 2007 FEIR,the new threshold has been included in this Addendum No. 2. For the analysis of the environmental impacts in this Addendum No. 2,significance criteria from the CEQA Guidelines are identified and have been applied in analyzing the potential effects of the proposed modifications. Environmental Impacts Consistent with the 2007 FEIR,the analysis of environmental impacts presented in this Addendum No. 2 identifies specific project-related direct and indirect,short term and long term,and unavoidable impacts of the proposed modifications.As described above,the significance criteria provide the basis for distinguishing between impacts which are determined to be significant(i.e., impacts which exceed the threshold of significance) and impacts which are considered less than significant.The existing environmental setting(i.e.,existing conditions) at the time of NOP publication for the 2006 Draft EIR is used as the baseline for documenting the nature and extent of changes to the environment or the environmental impacts anticipated to result from the proposed modifications;however,changes in physical conditions that have occurred from 2006 to 2012 are taken into account,particularly in the analysis of traffic,air quality,and noise. The following terminology is used to describe the level of significance of potential impacts. • A finding of no impact is appropriate if the analysis concludes that the project would not affect the particular topic area in any way. • An impact is considered less than significant if the analysis concludes that it would cause no substantial adverse change to the environment and requires no mitigation. • An impact is considered less than significant with mitigation incorporated if the analysis concludes that it would cause no substantial adverse change to the environment with the implementation of the mitigation measures described herein. • An impact is considered potentially significant if the analysis concludes that it could have a substantial adverse effect on the environment.For the proposed modifications,no impacts were determined to be potentially significant. The proposed mitigation measures included in this Addendum No. 2 are designed to reduce or eliminate the potentially significant environmental impacts described herein.Mitigation measures are structured in accordance with the criteria in Sections 15126.4 and 15370 of the State CEQA Guidelines.Unavoidable significant adverse impacts are those effects that either cannot be mitigated or that remain significant even after implementation of mitigation measures.The level of significance of the identified impacts after mitigation is identified in Chapter 4, Environmental Impact Analysis,of this Addendum No. 2. Addendum No.2 to the Environmental Impact Report for September 2012 the Redwood City Costco Wholesale Project 1-4 ICF 00154.12