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The applicant has met with representatives of the Pleasanton Chamber of Commerce and the Pleasanton Downtown Association, the owner/operator of the Bernal Corners Service Station, and the various neighborhood groups throughout the project review and has relayed to staff the public's support of the proposal. Staff has received several phone calls supporting the proposed project, inquiring of availability, construction date, projected rents and selling prices, and commenting favorably on the proposed building designs. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT On January 4, 2012, the City Council certified a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) and adopted the California Environmental Quality Act ICEQA) 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 21 potent al housing sites analyzed in the SEIR for up to 400 multi-family and single-family hou:.ing units for this site. Under CEQA, once an EIR has been prepared for a project, the lead agency (in this case, the City) is not required to prepare a subsequent or supplemental EIR unless certain conditions are met as specified in CEQA. Staff believed that the conditions described in CEQA have not occurred and that a subsequent or supplemental EIR was not required for this project. CEQA further states that a lead agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions ate necessary, but none of the conditions calling for the preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred. Therefore, an addendum to the SEIR was prepared for this project. Exhibit E (Attachment 8) is the, "Addendum to the City of Pleasanton Housing Element and Climate Action Plan General Plan Amendment and Rezoning Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Commons at Gateway (PUD-93)," prepared by FirstCarbon Solutions. The addendum to the SEIR determined that the proposed project will not trigger any new or more severe significant environmental impacts as compared to those analyzed in the context of the SEIR and confirmed that none of the conditions described in Section 15162 have occurred. The Addendum stated that the proposed project design features required by Mitigation Measure 4.B-4, such as the proposed vegetation barrier along the west side of the 1-680 freeway, installation of Medium Efficiency Reporting Value (MERV)-13 filters on the intake and return filters of all units' HVAC systems, etc. With these measures, the Addendum estimated for the residents of the proposed development a lifetime cancer risk of 17 in 1,000,000, less than the 100 in 1,000,000 threshold; a chronic: hazard index of 0.1, less than the 10 threshold; and a PM2.5 concentration of 0.24, kiss than the 0.8 threshold. Therefore, the previously prepared SEIR and Addendum to the SEIR, taken together, are adequate to serve as the environmental documentation for this project and satisfy all the requirements of CEQA. Page 17 of 19