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