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EXHIBIT A Resolution No. _____ Page 22 of 76 Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR cultural resource cannot be preserved in place or left in an undisturbed state, recovery, salvage and treatment shall be required at the Project Applicant’s expense. All recovered and salvaged resources shall be prepared to the point of identification and permanent preservation in an established accredited professional repository. With the implementation of the mitigation measure identified above (Mitigation Measure TCR-1), the Project’s potential impacts relating to temporary increases in ambient noise levels would be less than significant. (DEIR, pp. 4.12-4 through 4.12-5.) Consistent with the Original Project, the Modified Project would involve excavation and disturbance of onsite soils and Mitigation Measure TCR-1 would be required to reduce potential impacts to a less than significant level. With Mitigation Measure TCR-1 no new or greater impacts related to tribal cultural resources would occur. Based on the foregoing, none of the conditions identified in CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5 that would trigger the need to prepare a recirculated EIR or other environmental document exist. The Modified Project would not result in either a new significant environmental impact or a substantial increase in the severity of a previously identified impact. (Final EIR, Clarifications to the Final EIR, Section 3.12.) 9.0 FINDINGS REGARDING LESS THAN SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS NOT REQUIRING MITIGATION Consistent with Public Resources Code section 21002.1 and section 15128 of the CEQA Guidelines, the EIR focused its analysis on potentially significant impacts, and limited discussion of other impacts for which it can be seen with certainty there is no potential for significant adverse environmental impacts. CEQA Guidelines section 15091 does not require specific findings to address environmental effects that an EIR identifies as “no impact” or a “less than significant” impact. Nevertheless, the City hereby finds—consistent with Chapter 4.0, Environmental Setting and Impact Analysis, of the DEIR and the Initial Study (Appendix A of the DEIR)—that the Project would either have no impact or a less than significant impact to the following resource areas: 9.1 Aesthetics 9.1.1 Scenic Vistas Threshold: Would the Project have a substantial adverse effect on a scenic vista? Finding: Less than significant impact. (DEIR, p. 4.1-9 through 4.1-16.) Facts in Support of Findings: The Project site and surrounding areas are urbanized and do not contain any sensitive scenic vistas. (DEIR, p. 4.1-3, 4.1-9.) Moreover, as described in Section 4.1, Aesthetics of the DEIR, implementation of the Project would change the character of the site to more closely align with the General Plan Scenic Corridors Element designation as a Major City Entry and the Urban Design Element identification of the site as within the Main Street Concourse node. Additionally, it would align with the Scenic Corridors Element designation of Santiago Creek as an Inter-City Corridor. Hence, the Project would result in a substantial change, but this change would not result in an adverse effect to a scenic vista, and impacts related to a scenic vista would be less than significant. This conclusion also 2-52