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WHEREAS, on January 25, 2019, the City gave public notice of a City Council public hearing for consideration of Environmental Impact Report No. 2018-01 (State Clearinghouse Number #2018021031) by advertising in the Orange County Register, a newspaper of general circulation, and on January 24, 2019 by mailing to owners of property and residents within 500 feet of the Project; and WHEREAS, on February 5, 2019, the City Council conducted a duly noticed public hearing to consider the EIR, Development Agreement No. 2018-01, General Plan Amendment No. 2018-06, and Amendment Application No. 2018-10 and solicited comments on the EIR. After hearing all relevant testimony from staff, the public and the City's consultant team, the City Council voted to certify the EIR, adopt the findings, the statement of overriding considerations and the mitigation monitoring and reporting program and approve the Project; and WHEREAS, the "EIR" consists of the Final EIR and its attachments and appendices, as well as the Draft EIR and its attachments and appendices (as modified by the Final EIR); and WHEREAS, all potentially significant adverse environmental impacts were sufficiently analyzed in the EIR; and WHEREAS, as contained herein, the City Council has endeavored in good faith to set forth the basis for its decision and recommendations on the Project; and WHEREAS, all of the requirements of the Public Resources Code and the State CEQA Guidelines have been satisfied by the City in connection with the preparation of the EIR, which is sufficiently detailed so that all of the potentially significant environmental effects of the Project have been adequately evaluated; and WHEREAS, all of the findings and conclusions made by the City Council pursuant to this Resolution are based upon the oral and written evidence presented to it as a whole and the entirety of the administrative record for the Project, which are incorporated herein by this reference, and not based solely on the information provided in this Resolution; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Project's significant environmental impacts that cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level even with the incorporation of all feasible mitigation measures, as identified in the EIR, are described in Section 7 of the CEQA Findings of Fact, attached hereto as Exhibit "A'; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that the Project's environmental impacts that are less than significant with the incorporation of mitigation measures, as identified in the EIR, are described in Section 8 of the Findings of Fact, attached hereto as Exhibit "A"; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that environmental impacts that are identified in the EIR as less than significant and do not require mitigation are described in Section 9 of the Findings of Fact, attached hereto as Exhibit "A"; and 75E-33