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Project which will be tiered onto the MSIR. As such, no major revisions are needed to <br /> the MEIR to incorporate these changes. <br /> Some roadway segments have improved levels of service that now require no mitigation <br /> improvements for 2010. However, it is expected that these improvements will still be <br /> needed in the future beyond 2010. The Master Plan and MEIR require a full traffic <br /> impact analysis for each Specific Plan; and at that time, additional traffic studies will be <br /> prepared for cumulative traffic impacts with an expanded time frame. <br /> IILC. Finding: There is no new available information of substantial importance which <br /> was not known and could not have been known at the time the 1994 Master EIR was <br /> certified. <br /> CEQA Requirements: To more clearly address the required findings above, Section <br /> 15162 of CEQA has been addressed below. This section deals with Subsequent EIRs and <br /> Negative Declarations but defines more clearly the issues of "new available information <br /> of substantial importance." <br /> (3) New information of substantial importance, which was not known and could not <br /> have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the <br /> previous EIR was certified as complete shows any of the following: <br /> (A) The project will have one or more significant effects not <br /> discussed in the previous EIR or negative declaration; <br /> (B) Significant effects previously examined will be substantially <br /> more severe than shown in the previous EIR; <br /> (C)Mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be <br /> feasible would in fact be feasible, and would substantially <br /> reduce one or more significant effects of the project, but the <br /> project proponents decline to adopt the mitigation measure or <br /> alternative; or <br /> (D)Mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably <br /> different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would <br /> substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the <br /> environment, but the project proponents decline to adopt the <br /> mitigation measure or alternative. <br /> Statement of Fact: The initial study prepared for the Neighborhood F Project identified <br /> no new significant effects that were not already discussed in the MEIR. The initial study <br /> conducted for the Neighborhood F Project evaluated the information, impacts and <br /> mitigation measures contained in the MEIR. The Initial Study identified three areas <br /> where there was new information, geology and cumulative growth. Studies were <br /> prepared for noise and traffic thereby generating new information for these areas. The <br /> new information identified below does not result in the need to prepare a subsequent or <br /> supplemental EIR. <br /> 29 <br />