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A. The MainPlace Project does not constitute a substantial change that would require major revisions of the 1983 EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. B. There is not a substantial change with respect to the circumstances under which the MainPlace Project will be developed that would require major revisions of the 1983 EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of the previously identified significant effects. C. New information of substantial importance has not been presented that was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the 1983 EIR was certified or adopted, showing any of the following: (i) that the modifications would have one or more significant effects not discussed in the earlier environmental documentation; (ii) that significant effects previously examined would be substantially more severe than shown in the earlier environmental documentation; (iii) that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects, but the applicant declined to adopt such measures; or (iv) that mitigation measures or alternatives considerably different from those analyzed previously would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but which the applicant declined to adopt. SECTION 2. GENERAL PLAN CONSISTENCY. Based on the entire record before the City Council, including all written and oral evidence presented to the City Council, the City Council hereby finds that the Specific Plan is compatible with the objectives, policies, and general plan land use programs specified in the General Plan for the City of Santa Ana in that: A. The City of Santa Ana has officially adopted a General Plan. B. The land uses and development authorized by the Specific Plan, and the Specific Plan itself, are compatible with the objectives, policies, general land uses, and programs specified in the General Plan, for the following reasons: 1. The existing General Plan land use designation for the Property is District Center —intended to serve as an anchor to the City's commercial corridors, and to accommodate major development activity. District Centers are to be developed with an urban character that includes a mixture of high-rise office, commercial, and residential uses which provide shopping, business, cultural, education, recreation, entertainment, and housing opportunities. 2. The proposed project will support several goals and policies of the General Plan, including: Ordinance No. NS-2966 Page 3 of 9