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EXHIBIT B I '\ Sequoia Ecological Consulting,Inc. CaIVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum C-1 111" Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction J November 2025 Project-Specific California Environmental Quality Act Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations INTRODUCTION The City of Pleasanton, referred to herein as "Project Proponent," in the exercise of its independent judgment, makes and adopts the following findings regarding its decision to approve the Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction Project, referred to herein as "vegetation treatment project," within the scope of the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CaIVTP). This document has been prepared in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA; Pub. Resources Code, Sections 21000 et seq.) and the CEQA Guidelines (Cal. Code Regs.,Tit. 14, Sections 15000 et seq.). STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS FOR FINDINGS Public Resources Code section 21002 provides that "public agencies should not approve projects as proposed if there are feasible alternatives or feasible mitigation measures available which would substantially lessen the significant environmental effects of such projects[.]" The same section provides that the procedures required by CEQA "are intended to assist public agencies in systematically identifying both the significant effects of projects and the feasible alternatives or feasible mitigation measures which will avoid or substantially lessen such significant effects" (Pub. Resources Code, Section 21002). Section 21002 goes on to provide that "in the event [that] specific economic, social, or other conditions make infeasible such project alternatives or such mitigation measures, individual projects may be approved in spite of one or more significant effects thereof." The mandate and principles announced in Public Resources Code section 21002 are implemented, in part,through the requirement that agencies must adopt findings before approving projects for which Environmental Impact Reports (EIRs) are required (see Pub. Resources Code, Section 21081, subd. [a]; CEQA Guidelines, Section 15091, subd. [a]). For each significant environmental effect identified in an EIR for a project,the approving agency must issue a written finding reaching one or more of three permissible conclusions per CEQA Guidelines,Section 15091, subd. (a), and Pub. Resources Code,Section 21081, subd. (a): 1. Changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into,the project that avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effect as identified in the final EIR. 2. Such changes or alterations are within the responsibility and jurisdiction of another public agency and not the agency making the finding. Such changes have been adopted by such other agency or can and should be adopted by such other agency. 3. Specific economic, legal,social,technological,or other considerations, including provision of employment opportunities for highly trained workers, make infeasible the mitigation measures or project alternatives identified in the final EIR.