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PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of the proposed project and related City Council public hearing was sent to all property owners in Pleasanton that are within 1,000 feet of the Auto Mall site (the noticing area is depicted on the noticing maps attached to this report.as Attachment 5, Exhibit E), and was also published in the local newspaper. Staff has not received any comments as of the publication of this report, and will forward to the City Council any public comments received after publication of this report. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT On August 24, 2010, the City Council certified a Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) and adopted the CEQA Findings and a Statement of Overriding Considerations for the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch. This SEIR was a supplement to the EIR prepared for the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch Project which was certified on February 24, 2009. The California Environmental Quality Mt states 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 in Section 15162 calling for the preparation of a subsequent EIR have occurred. Staff believed that none of the conditions described in Section 15162 occurred.Therefore, an addendum to the SEIR was prepared for this project. The analysis in the attached Addendum to the SEIR (Attachment 5, Exhibit D) confirmed 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 that none of the conditions described in Section 15162 occurred. Therefore, the previously prepared SEIR and Addendum to the SEIR, taken together, are determined to be adequate to serve as the environmental documentation for this project and satisfy all the requirements of CEQA. The SEIR included some mitigation measures that needed to be addressed prior to issuance of a building permit for a project (e.g., noise analysis). These mitigation measures have been addressed in the draft conditions of approval for this project. CONCLUSION The subject project would allow the development of an automobile dealership on approximately 20 of the 37-acre Auto Mall site within the Staples Ranch development. Staff finds the use consistent with the General Plan, the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment/Staples Ranch, and the Planned Unit Development — Commercial zoning designation for the site. The facility would provide another option for purchasers of cars within Pleasanton, the Tri-Valley region, and the San Francisco Bay Area. Therefore, staff recommends that the City Council approve the proposed project. Page 10 of 11