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11.0 Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program Avion Project SEIR Page 11-1 Chapter 11 Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program Section 21081.6 of the State of California Public Resources Code (PRC) requires a Lead or Responsible Agency that approves or carries out a project where an EIR has identified significant environmental effects to adopt a “reporting or monitoring program for adopted or required changes to mitigate or avoid significant environmental effects.” The City of San Diego is the Lead Agency for the Avion Project Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), and therefore must ensure the enforceability of the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP). An SEIR has been prepared for this project that addresses potential environmental impacts and, where appropriate, recommends measures to mitigate these impacts. As such, an MMRP is required to ensure that adopted mitigation measures are implemented. The SEIR, incorporated herein as referenced, focuses on issues determined to be potentially significant by the City. This SEIR also considers the issues discussed in the first-tier document and evaluates whether a significant effect has been adequately addressed or if there is an effect that was not addressed in the previous report. The issues determined to require subsequent analysis in the SEIR include land use, biological resources, cultural/historical resources, landform alteration/visual quality, air quality, and noise. Chapter 9.0 of the SEIR, Black Mountain Ranch (Subarea I) Subarea Plan EIR Subject Areas Requiring No Change in Analysis, contains a summary of the impacts of the project compared with the impacts analyzed in the 1998 EIR. The 1998 EIR concluded that the following impacts were significant: land use, transportation/circulation, biological resources, hydrology/water quality, landform alteration/visual quality, air quality, geology and soils, natural resources/agriculture, noise, public facilities and services, and water conservation. The 1998 EIR indicates that significant impacts for the project site would be substantially lessened or avoided if the mitigation measures recommended in the EIR were implemented by future development for various environmental issues. Previous mitigation measures from the 1998 EIR are identified below, along with a conclusion as to whether the impact would be mitigated to below a level of significance. After analysis, new or substantially increased potentially significant impacts requiring mitigation were identified in the SEIR for biological resources, cultural/historical resources, landform alteration, and air quality. The environmental analysis concluded that all of these significant and potentially significant impacts could be avoided or reduced through implementation of recommended mitigation measures, with the exception of impacts to landform alteration. Mitigation measures that would reduce and/or avoid the environmental effects of the project are carried forward and have been incorporated into this MMRP. As Lead Agency for the proposed project under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the City of San Diego will administer the MMRP for the following environmental issue areas as identified in the Avion Project SEIR and 1998 EIR: transportation/circulation, air quality, biological resources, historical/cultural resources, and air quality. This MMRP shall be made a requirement of project approval.