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City of Santa Ana 4th and Mortimer Project Response 22 The commenter states that the City's decision to prepare an addendum instead of an EIR is not supported by evidence and adds that approval of the project based on the Addendum would constitute an abuse of the City's discretion. The commenter also states that the City may not rely on the 10-year 2010 FEIR and requests that the Planning Commission decline to recommend the City Council approval of the Addendum and, instead, direct Planning Staff to prepare and circulate an EIR for public review. As discussed in Response 1, the project did not require a subsequent or supplemental EIR or negative declaration because none of the conditions described in PRC Section 21166 and CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15164 were met to trigger the need for these documents. Primarily, Section 3, Environmental Impact Analysis, of the Addendum supports the conclusion that changes to the project would not result in new or more severe impacts than those of the approved project previously disclosed in the 2010 FEIR and would not require a major revision to the 2010 FEIR. Therefore, the City is within its discretion to proceed with an addendum as the appropriate environmental document for the project under CEQA. Furthermore, as discussed in Response 7, to support the use of the 2010 FEIR and that the 2010 FEIR retains relevance and has "some informational value," the City may rely on evidence of the similarities in the project to the approved project analyzed in the 2010 FEIR, and does not have to necessarily show that the impacts from the project were analyzed in the 2010 FEIR or that the 2010 FEIR adequately analyzed the approved project with the proposed changes under current CEQA standards. 75C-296