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3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS (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; As discussed in this Addendum. the proposed Housing Element does not increase the level of any environmental impact identified in the General Plan Amendment and Rezoninas Supplemental EIR. The proposed changes alien definitions with State law. The changes in definitions affect the existing built environment or would be part of future project(sj and subject to additional project -level environmental analvsis. (B) Significont effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; The proposed Housing Element does not increase the severity of any of the environmental impacts identified in the General Plan Amendment and Rezonings Supplemental EIR, as the proposal does not make chanaes to the land use designations or patterns nor propose any development that would not be consistent with the land use assumptions in the Supplemental €113. (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 No new mitigation measures are proposed as a result of the new Housing Element. The changes in housing policy are procedural in nature and affect the processing and review of future housing projects. (D) Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably 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 proposed Housing Element does not make anv changes to the land use designations or MOP, and there is no need to modify the mitigation measures contained in the General Plan Amendment and Rezonings Supplemental EIR that address projects developed pursuant to the General Plan. (b) If changes to o project or its circumstances occur or new information becomes available after adoption of a negative declaration, the lead agency shall prepare a subsequent ERR if required under subdivision (a). Otherwise, the lead agency shall determine whether to prepare a subsequent negative declaration, and addendum, or no further documentation. As summarized above and further discussed in this Addendum the proposed Housing Element does not make changes to the goals policies or programs or to the land use designations of the General Plan that would reauire substantial revisions to the General Plan Amendment and Housing Element Addendum to the General Plan Amendment and Rezonings Supplemental EIR 3.0 -2 City of Pleasanton August 2014