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City of Pleasanton—Additional Housing Opportunity Zone Sites CEQA Guidelines Sections 15164: Addendum to a <br />Certified EIR <br />CEQA Guidelines Section 15164 Addendum <br /> <br /> <br /> 25 <br />SECTION 3: CEQA GUIDELINES SECTION 15164: ADDENDUM TO <br />A CERTIFIED EIR <br />Section 15164 of the State CEQA Guidelines states that an Addendum to an <br />EIR shall be prepared “if some changes or additions are necessary, but none <br />of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of a <br />subsequent EIR have occurred.” Thus, if none of the conditions described <br />below are met, the City shall prepare an Addendum to a previously certified <br />EIR or ND if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the <br />conditions described in CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 calling for <br />preparation of a subsequent EIR or ND have occurred (CEQA Guidelines § <br />15164, subd. (a)). <br />An Addendum need not be circulated for public review but can be included <br />in or attached to the Final EIR or ND (CEQA Guidelines § 15164, subd. (c)). <br />The decision-making body shall consider the Addendum to the Prior FEIR prior <br />to making a decision on the proposed project (CEQA Guidelines § 15164, <br />subd. (d)). An agency must also include a brief explanation of the decision <br />not to prepare a subsequent EIR or ND pursuant to Section 15162 (CEQA <br />Guidelines § 15164, subd. (e)). <br />Consequently, once an EIR or ND has been certified for a project, no <br />subsequent EIR or ND is required under CEQA unless, based on substantial <br />evidence: <br />(1) Substantial changes are proposed in the project which will require <br />major revisions of the Prior FEIR due to the involvement of new <br />significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the <br />severity of previously identified significant effects; <br />(2) Substantial changes occur with respect to the circumstances under <br />which the project is undertaken which will require major revisions of <br />the Prior FEIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental <br />effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified <br />significant effects; or <br />(3) New information of substantial importance, which was not known and <br />could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence <br />at the time the Prior FEIR was certified as complete, shows any of the <br />following: