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Local Guidelines for Implementing the <br />California Environmental Quality Act (2019) CEQA LITIGATION <br /> <br /> <br />2019 City of Santa Ana Local Guidelines 10-2 ©Best Best & Krieger LLP <br />(3) All staff reports and related documents prepared by the public agency and written <br />testimony or documents submitted by any person relevant to any findings or <br />statement of overriding considerations adopted by the public agency pursuant to <br />CEQA or these Local Guidelines; <br />(4) Any transcript or minutes of the proceedings at which the decision-making body of <br />the public agency heard testimony on or considered any environmental document <br />on the project, and any transcript or minutes of proceedings before any advisory <br />body to the respondent public agency that were presented to the decision-making <br />body prior to action on the environmental documents or on the project; <br />(5) All notices issued by the public agency to comply with CEQA or with any other <br />law governing the processing and approval of the project; <br />(6) All written comments received in response to, or in connection with, environmental <br />documents prepared for the project, including responses to the notice of <br />preparation; <br />(7) All written evidence or correspondence submitted to, or transferred from, the public <br />agency with respect to compliance with CEQA or with respect to the project; <br />(8) Any proposed decisions or findings submitted to the decision-making body of the <br />public agency by its staff or the project proponent, project opponents, or other <br />persons, to the extent such documents are subject to public disclosure; <br />(9) The documentation of the final public agency decision, including the final <br />environmental impact report, mitigated negative declaration, or negative <br />declaration, and all documents, in addition to those referenced in paragraph (3) <br />above, cited or relied on in the findings or in a statement of overriding <br />considerations adopted pursuant to CEQA; <br />(10) Any other written materials relevant to the respondent public agency’s compliance <br />with CEQA or to its decision on the merits of the project, including the initial study; <br />any drafts of any environmental document, or portions thereof, that were released <br />for public review; copies of studies or other documents relied upon in any <br />environmental document prepared for the project and either made available to the <br />public during the public review period or included in the public agency’s files on <br />the project; and internal agency communications related to the project or to <br />compliance with CEQA, to the extent such documents are subject to public <br />disclosure; and <br />(11) The full written record before any inferior administrative decision-making body <br />whose decision was appealed prior to the filing of the lawsuit. <br />B. Organization of Administrative Record. <br />The administrative record should be organized as follows: <br />3 -154