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As indicated in the Background section above, the City held multiple community meetings, a Planning Commission workshop, and a joint Planning Commission/City Council workshop on the JDEDZ to foster public input. The City prepared the FSEIR, including responses to 94 written comments, in March of 2016. The City Council then directed the CEQA process be paused pending consideration of the voter initiative that had been placed on the November 8, 2016 ballot. The City then resumed the CEQA and planning process after the voters rejected the initiative measure by 63 percent (thereby signaling their support for the JDEDZ project). In October 2017, the Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the JDEDZ to the City Council, and the City Council certified the FSEIR and approved the JDEDZ in November 2017. Following the City's certification of the FSEIR and approval of the JDEDZ, "an unincorporated association" of persons calling themselves Pleasanton Citizens for Responsible Growth (the "Petitioners") filed a lawsuit asking the court to rescind the City Council's JDEDZ approvals due to alleged violations of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Petitioners alleged the FSEIR had an incomplete air quality analysis related to the Stoneridge Apartment Community (located on the west side of I- 680 near Stoneridge Mall at 6259 through 6450 Stoneridge Mall Road). In September 2018, the City and Costco agreed to rescind the JDEDZ approvals and FSEIR certification in order to perform supplemental air quality analysis for the JDEDZ. In return, Petitioners dismissed the lawsuit. At its meeting on September 18, 2018, the City Council voted to rescind the SEIR certification and JDEDZ approvals. The City Council also directed staff to conduct additional environmental review to address the concerns expressed with the proposed project in the lawsuit and to avoid further delays and costly litigation. This supplemental environmental work was completed throughout 2019 and was circulated for public comment for 45 days beginning on July 10, 2019 and ending on August 23, 2019. The following documents were prepared and circulated for public comment (the "Partial Recirculated Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report" [RDSEIR]): • Supplemental Recirculation Memo (July 2019) • Health Risk Assessment (January 2019) • Updated Air Quality Analysis (July 2019) • Greenhouse Gas Analysis (July 2019) • Energy Resources Analysis (July 2019) The Supplemental Recirculation Memo summarizes the methodology and findings of the other four documents that comprise the RDSEIR (See Attachment 2A). The Supplemental Recirculation Memo also included a summary of the findings of the Economic Impact Analysis from 2015. Page 10 of 23