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The City Council approved the Project and certified the Revised Final SEIR on February 4, 2020. II. PROJECT ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW a. Preparation of the Revised Final SEIR pursuant to CEQA Before the Project was originally approved in 2017, the City properly determined that a supplement to the General Plan EIR and the 2012 SEIR should be prepared to analyze the potential environmental impact of the Project. CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 states that"When an EIR has been certified for a project, no subsequent EIR shall be prepared for that project unless the lead agency determines, on the basis of substantial evidence in the light of the whole record, one or more of the following: 1. Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; 2. Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under which the project undertaken which will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects; or 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, shows any of the following: a. The project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the previous EIR; b. Significant effects previously examined will be substantially more severe than shown in the previous EIR; c. Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effect of the project, but the project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative; or 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." (CEQA Guidelines Section 15162[a]) CEQA Guidelines Section 15163 states that a lead agency may choose to prepare a "supplement"to an EIR rather than a"subsequent" EIR if: 1. Any of the conditions described in Section 15162 would require the preparation of a subsequent EIR; and 3