2020-097 - Adopting the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation

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jmf 11/3/20 RESOLUTION NO. 2020-097 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ADOPTING THE MITIGATED NEGATIVE DECLARATION AND MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM FOR THE WELL NO. 29 IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. The City is proposing to improve and rehabilitate its Well No. 29, located at 722 West 1st Street, at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Flower Street and West 1st Street ("Proposed Project"). Well No. 29 was constructed in 1980 and has not been operational since late 2016. B. Well No. 29 is one of three wells pumping water from the groundwater basin to the Walnut Street Reservoir as part of the City's Walnut Pump Station System. Due to the age of the well and the deterioration of the well's capacity and equipment, the City wishes to rehabilitate Well No. 29 and reconfigure the existing site. Rehabilitation of the well is necessary to clean the louvered casing in an effort to regain the losses experienced in the specific capacity value of the well over time. C. The Proposed Project includes the construction of anew building, water pumping equipment, and related site improvements, as well as the relocation of an existing City -owned tennis court adjacent to the well site. D. The Proposed Project is required to undergo an environmental review pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the state CEQA Guidelines. Through its consultant, the City prepared an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration ("IS/MND") for the Proposed Project. E. Based on the IS/MND, the Proposed Project would have no impact or less than significant impacts in the following environmental areas: aesthetics, agriculture and forest resources, air quality, energy, greenhouse gases, hazards and hazardous materials, land use and planning, mineral resources, population and housing, noise, public services, recreation, utilities and services systems, and wildfire. The Proposed Project has the potential to have significant impacts on the following topics unless the recommended mitigation measures described in the IS/MND are incorporated into the Project: biological resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, hydrology and water quality, transportation, and tribal cultural resources. Resolution No.2020-097 Page 1 of 3