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Although the Historic Architecture Evaluation Report (Exhibit G in Attachment 6) states that the existing house does not meet the criteria of a historic resource or place, given the Downtown Specific Plan polices and the Downtown Design Guidelines, staff recommends that the house be retained as provided for in Option 1. PUD FINDINGS Please refer to the attached, July 10, 2013, Planning Commission Staff Report (Attachment 6), pages 28-30, for a discussion of the considerations needed to approve the proposed PUD development plan. Staff notes that the PUD considerations would apply to Option 2 as well. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of this application was sent to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the subject property. At the time this report was published, staff had received one email of support from Brad Hirst regarding this application. Please refer to Attachment 7 for Mr. Hirst's email. Public comments received after publication of the notice will be forwarded to the City Council as they are received. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT In 2012, the City Council certified a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) and adopted the CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations for the Housing Element update and Climate Action Plan General Plan Amendment and Rezonings. This SEIR was a supplement to the EIR prepared for the Pleasanton 2005-2025 General Plan which was certified in July 2009. The subject property was one of the 21 potential housing sites analyzed in the SEIR. A total of 54 multi-family housing units were analyzed in the SEIR for this site. The California Environmental Quality Act specifies that residential development projects, such as this site, that are proposed pursuant to the requirements of an adopted SEIR that has been prepared and certified are exempt from additional environmental review provided: 1) there are no substantial changes to the project or to the circumstances under which the project is being undertaken that involve new significant environmental effects or that substantially increase the severity of previously identified effects; or 2) that new information of substantial importance which was not known at the time the previous EIR was certified shows the project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the EIR. Although the subject site was removed as a potential multi-family housing site, the SEIR analyzed development for 54 multi-family units. The project density currently proposed, in Optiors 1 and 2, are significantly lower than analyzed in the SEIR and, therefore, staff does not believe that there are any changes in the project, circumstances, or new information causing new significant environmental effects. The applicant has provided site specific studies (e.g., noise, riparian, cultural resources, geological, etc.) to address development mitigations and staff has added conditions of approval to address additional mitigation measures that are specific to this site that were discussed in the SEIR and the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program. Thus, staff recommends this project be reviewed without any additional CEQA review or process. Page 15 of 17