Planning Commission Meeting Agenda Packet 04222026

City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Project CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations 54 FirstCarbon Solutions Https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480016/FOF/21480016 Pleasanton Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Project FOF.docx those mitigation measures. As such, no additional/revised mitigation measures have any significant effects and the conclusions of the Draft EIR with respect to each impact section remain unchanged. The Lead Agency has considered all relevant information including the opinions and comments of interested agencies, organizations and individuals. The Lead Agency finds that the additional mitigation does not meet the test for recirculation. Additionally, the Lead Agency finds that none of the additional information provided during the public comment period demonstrates any of the following situations requiring recirculation identified in CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5 have occurred: xx A new significant environmental impact that would result from the project (or any alternative) or from a new mitigation measure proposed to be implemented. x A substantial increase in the severity of an environmental impact would result unless mitigation measures are adopted that reduce the impact to a level of insignificance. x A feasible project alternative or mitigation measure considerably different from others previously analyzed would clearly lessen the significant environmental impacts of the project (or an alternative), but the project's proponents decline to adopt it. x The Draft EIR was so fundamentally and basically inadequate and conclusory in nature that meaningful public review and comment were precluded. Based on the foregoing and as explained in more detail in the Final EIR, and having reviewed all the information in the record of proceedings, the Lead Agency hereby finds that this additional information does not constitute significant new information nor does it require recirculation of the EIR. The additional information merely clarifies or amplifies an adequate EIR. 1.14 - Statement of Overriding Considerations CEQA requires that a Lead Agency balance the benefits of a project against its unavoidable environmental risk in determining whether to approve the proposed project. If the benefits outweigh the unavoidable adverse effects, those effects may be considered “acceptable” pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15093(a). CEQA requires that a Lead Agency support, in writing, the specific reasons for considering a project acceptable when significant impacts are infeasible to mitigate. Those reasons must be based on substantial evidence in the EIR or elsewhere in the administrative record pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15093(b). The Lead Agency’s written reasons are referred to as a Statement of Overriding Considerations. As explained in the above Findings of Fact, most of the project’s impacts on the environment would either be insignificant or, through the incorporation of mitigation measures as conditions of approval of the proposed project, can be reduced to less than significant. However, as set forth in Section 1.6 above, impacts to VMT will remain significant and unavoidable as no mitigation measures are feasible/even with implementation of all feasible mitigation measures. Further, as set forth in Section 1.7 above, there are/are no feasible alternatives to the proposed project, which would mitigate or avoid those environmental impacts and which would meet project objectives. Accordingly, as set forth below, the City of Pleasanton hereby declares that the following benefits