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2. Only minor additions or changes would be necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project in the changed situation. Further, CEQA Guidelines Section 15163 states: • The supplement to the EIR need contain only the information necessary to make the previous EIR adequate for the project as revised. • A supplement to an EIR shall be given the same kind of notice and public review as is given to a draft EIR under Section 15087. • A supplement to an EIR may be circulated by itself without recirculating the previous draft or final EIR. • When the agency decides whether to approve the project, the decision-making body shall consider the previous EIR as revised by the supplemental EIR. A finding under Section 15091 shall be made for each significant effect shown in the previous EIR as revised. As discussed in section I.a above, the proposed Project builds on, supplements, and refines portions of the General Plan. Based on an initial review of the proposed Project and the criteria set forth in CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15163,the City originally determined that the Project may result in new significant impacts that were not addressed in the General Plan EIR or the Supplemental Housing Element and CAP EIR. The City also determined that the proposed Project would be a substantial change from the project evaluated in the prior EIRs because of the Project's potential to result in new significant environmental effects, or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant environmental effects. As described in Chapter 3 (Project Description) of the Draft SEIR, the Project includes a General Plan amendment and rezoning of parcels, adoption of specific design guidelines, and other associated entitlement approvals. Construction and operation activities that could take place within the Project area would result in specific impacts that were not previously analyzed under the General Plan EIR or Supplemental Housing Element and CAP EIR. Further, the City determined that a supplemental EIR would be appropriate for the Project because a supplemental EIR augments the EIR prepared for a prior project to address any project changes or changed circumstances since the time the prior document was certified. In the case of changes to a previously approved project, as is the case for this Project,the purpose of a supplemental EIR is to provide the additional analysis necessary to make the previous EIR adequately apply to the project as modified. Accordingly, the City determined that the supplemental EIR for this Project need contain only the analysis necessary to respond to the proposed change in the project that triggered the need for additional environmental review. Given that approval of the Project would amend the adopted General Plan and result in other land use changes,that the remainder of the General Plan remains in effect as previously adopted, and in consideration of the scope of the Project,the City determined that a supplement to the previously certified EIR was necessary to implement the Project but that much of the 4