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Page 3 kimley-horn.com 4637 Chabot Drive, Suite 300, Pleasanton, CA 94588 925.398.4840 156380685.4 2009 General Plan EIR On July 21, 2009, the City of Pleasanton adopted the Pleasanton General Plan Update 2005–2025, after certification of the Pleasanton General Plan Update 2005–2025 Environmental Impact Report (EIR) (State Clearinghouse Number 205122139). The EIR evaluated the impacts of “buildout of the proposed General Plan, not just the incremental difference between . . . buildout of the existing General Plan and the buildout of the proposed General Plan.” Accordingly, the 2009 EIR addressed the impacts of full buildout at Stoneridge Mall. Specifically, the 2009 EIR’s traffic model included 1,137,500 then- existing square feet of retail uses, future small expansions of each of the major retailers at the mall (around 30,000 square feet each) and the 353,500-square foot expansion allowed by the Development Agreement. The General Plan imposed mitigation measures consisting of traffic improvements that were needed to address buildout, and the City has since incorporated all applicable traffic improvements into its traffic impact fee program. Accordingly, payment of current traffic fees will establish compliance with the General Plan EIR mitigation measures. 2012 Housing Element and Climate Action Plan Supplemental EIR In connection with its 2012 Housing Element Update and Climate Action Plan, the City supplemented the General Plan EIR with a Supplemental EIR that was certified in 2012. The 2012 Supplemental EIR addressed the impacts of additional housing proposed by its 2012 Housing Element and the City’s Climate Action Plan. The 2012 Supplemental EIR concluded that buildout of the 2005-2025 General Plan had been adequately studied in the 2009 EIR, with the exception of sites identified for additional housing, and the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. The 2012 Housing Element Update identified nine locations to accommodate for future housing developments in the City, which were concurrently rezoned to PUD- Mixed Use, and which are shown in Figure 1. Site 27 consists of two portions of the Stoneridge Mall; one section is located on the northwest side of the mall and the other on the southeast side. The northwest portion is approximately 1 acre and the southeast section is approximately 9 acres. The Housing Element Development Standards and Design Guidelines, which were adopted by the City shortly after it adopted its 2012 Housing Element, establish a minimum and maximum density of 40 dwelling units per acre for Site 27, which equates to 40 units for the northwest section and 360 units for the southeast sites, and therefore has a combined estimated potential for 400 residential units. The development at Stoneridge Mall included in the traffic model for the 2012 Supplemental EIR consisted of existing developments, the expansion of 353,000 square feet of commercial uses allowed by the Development Agreement, and the 400 multifamily housing units that were proposed for certain areas of the Stoneridge Mall by the 2012 Housing Element. The 2012 Supplemental EIR determined that only two significant and unavoidable impacts would result from adding the proposed overall housing throughout the City to the future baseline traffic (future baseline traffic included the 353,500 square-foot expansion at Stoneridge Mall). Those two impacts involved worsening already unacceptable traffic congestion on Sunol Boulevard (First Street) between Vineyard Avenue and Stanley Boulevard; and on Hopyard Road between Owens Drive and I-580. The City found these impacts significant and unavoidable, and overridden by the benefits of the Housing Element.