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Quality Act (CEQA). The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) specifies that residential development projects that are proposed pursuant to the requirements of an adopted specific plan for which an EIR has been prepared and certified are exempt from additional environmental review provided: 1) there are no substantial changes to the project or to the circumstances under which the project is being undertaken that involve new significant environmental effects or that substantially increase the severity of previously identified effects; or 2) that new information of substantial importance which was not known at the time the previous EIR was certified shows the project will have one or more significant effects not discussed in the EIR. Staff does not believe that there are any changes in the project, circumstances, or new information causing new significant environmental effects. Thus, staff recommends this project be reviewed without any additional CEQA review or process. IX. STAFF RECOMMENDATION 1. Find that there are no new or changed circumstances or information which require additional CEQA review of the project; 2. Find that the proposed PUD rezoning and development plan are consistent with the General Plan and Downtown Specific Plan; 3. Make the PUD findings for the proposed development plan as listed in the staff report; and 4. Adopt a resolution recommending approval of Case PUD -82, PUD rezoning from R -1 -6,500 (One - Family Residential) District to PUD -HDR (Planned Unit Development — High Density Residential) and development plan approval to construct 14 detached single - family homes, subject to the conditions of approval listed in Exhibit B, and forward the application to the City Council for public hearing and review. For questions or comments about this proposal, please contact: Steve Otto, Senior Planner at 925- 931 -5608 or sotto(d,ci. pleasanton. ca. us. PUD -82 Page - 26 - September 15, 2010