700 East Middlefield Road LinkedIn Office Project

Request to amend a previously approved Development Agreement (Permit No. PL-2107-074) to grant a five-year extension of the term for Phase 2 of a 429,491 square-foot office development project on a 28.7 - acre site. The previous EIR for the campus redevelopment project (State Clearinghouse No. 2017092025), certified on November 27, 2018 concluded that all significant environmental impacts would be reduced to less-than-significant levels with the incorporation of mitigation measures and standard City conditions of approval, except for the five significant and unavoidable intersection impacts, for which a Statement of Overriding Considerations and a Mitigation, Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) was adopted. The proposed amendment to the DA does not alter the environmental conditions assessed in the certified EIR and would not result in any new environmental impacts beyond those previously evaluated and mitigated with the MMRP. Furthermore, the proposed amendment to the DA does not result in any change to the Project and does not require any revisions to the EIR due to the identification of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. There has been no new information of substantial importance which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the EIR was certified as complete. None of the circumstances in the CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15163 are present; therefore, no further environmental review is required.