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rescind the City Council's Project approvals due to alleged CEQA violations. Petitioners alleged that the Final SEIR had an incomplete air quality analysis related to the Stoneridge Apartment Complex on Stoneridge Mall Road, and that more time was needed for public consideration of the economic impact analysis. In September 2018, the City Council voted to rescind the EDZ approvals in order to perform supplemental air quality analysis for the EDZ project. Petitioners thus dismissed the lawsuit. e. 2019 Partial Recirculated Draft SEIR,Revised Final SEIR, and Project Approval In July 2019,the City prepared and circulated the following supplemental environmental analyses for public comment: • Health Risk Assessment • Updated Air Quality Technical Memorandum • Greenhouse Gas Analysis • Energy Resources Technical Memorandum • A Supplemental Recirculation Memorandum summarizing the methodology and the findings of the above four documents was also circulated, dated July 9, 2019 Together,these five documents comprise the Partial Recirculated Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Project(the "Partial Recirculated Draft SEIR"). The City received nearly 300 public comments during the period that the Partial Recirculated Draft SEIR was recirculated,though only 14 letters raised substantive comments on the adequacy of the Partial Recirculated Draft SEIR, and most simply expressed support for or opposition to the project. The City prepared responses to those comments in October and November 2019. Those responses,together with the Draft SEIR and the Final SEIR(including all previous responses to comments prepared prior to the original approval of the Project) comprise the Revised Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Report for the Project ("Revised Final SEIR"). 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