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City of Pleasanton—Villages at the Quarry Project Introduction 15183 Consistency Checklist 2 adopted Housing Element Update. The land upon which the proposed project would be located was considered and included in the adopted Housing Element Update and is identified therein and in the Housing Element Update FEIR as Sites 21a and 21b (collectively, Kiewit Site, project site, or Site 21). The following Consistency Checklist has been prepared pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 (Projects Consistent with a Community Plan or Zoning) to determine whether the proposed project requires additional environmental review. CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 mandates that projects that are consistent with the development density established by existing zoning, community plan, or general plan policies for which a FEIR was certified (in this case the Housing Element Update FEIR) shall not require additional environmental review, except as might be necessary to examine whether there are project-specific significant effects that are peculiar to the project or its site. This streamlining provision thereby limits the review of such projects and reduces the need to prepare repetitive environmental studies. Specifically, Section 15183 provides that examination of environmental effects shall be limited to those effects that: (1) are peculiar to the project or the parcel on which the project would be located, (2) were not analyzed as significant effects in a prior EIR on the zoning action, general plan, or community plan, with which the project is consistent, (3) are potentially significant off-site impacts and cumulative impacts which were not discussed in the prior EIR prepared for the zoning action, general plan, or community plan, or (4) are previously identified significant effects which, as a result of substantial new information which was not known at the time the EIR was certified, are determined to have a more severe adverse impact than discussed in the prior EIR. Public Resources Code Section 21083.3(d) and CEQA Guidelines Section 15183(c) further specify that an impact shall not be considered peculiar to the parcel or to the proposed project if the project is subject to uniformly applied development policies or standards that were adopted to substantially mitigate the relevant impact(s) unless substantial new information shows that the policies and standards will not substantially mitigate the impact(s) at issue.