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<br /> <br />Resolution No. 2025-xx <br />Page 3 of 5 <br /> <br />WHEREAS, after hearing all relevant testimony from staff, the public and the <br />City’s consultant team, the Planning Commission by a vote of 3:2, voted to recommend <br />denial of the project. Since the entitlements required final action by the City Council, the <br />actions were forwarded to the City Council; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on November 19, 2019, the City Council conducted a duly noticed <br />public hearing to consider the EIR, Development Agreement No. 2018-01, General Plan <br />Amendment No. 2018-06, and Amendment Application No. 2018-10 and at which <br />hearing members of the public were afforded an opportunity to comment upon <br />Environmental Impact Report No. 2018-01. After hearing all relevant testimony from <br />staff, the public and the City’s consultant team, the City Council voted to certify the EIR, <br />adopt the findings, the statement of overriding considerations and the mitigation <br />monitoring and reporting program and approve the October Modified Project; and <br />WHEREAS, the “EIR” consists of the Final EIR, Clarifications to the Final EIR, <br />and all attachments and appendices to both the Final EIR and the Clarifications to the <br />Final EIR, as well as the Draft EIR and its attachments and appendices (as modified by <br />the Final EIR); and <br />WHEREAS, on November 19, 2019, the Project was presented to the City <br />Council for consideration. This included certification and adoption of the Final <br />Environmental Impact Report (Final EIR), clarification to the Final EIR document, a <br />mitigation monitoring and reporting program, and a statement of overriding conditions; <br />Development Agreement; General Plan amendment to change the land use designation <br />of the property from Professional and Administrative Office (PAO) to District Center <br />(DC); Amendment application to rezone the property from Professional (P) to Specific <br />Development No. 93 (SD-93). The first reading of the zone change and development <br />agreement were approved along with the Final EIR and mitigation monitoring program. <br />WHEREAS, on December 3, 2019, the second reading of the ordinances was <br />held. The matter was continued to December 17, 2019 and then to January 21, 2020. <br />WHEREAS, on January 21, 2020, the zone change and development agreement <br />ordinances were adopted. <br />WHEREAS, the Project approved entailed, among other things, (1) demolition of <br />the existing 81,172 square foot vacant two -story office building and 442-space surface <br />parking lot on the Project Site; (2) redevelopment of the 5.93 -acre site with 444,534 <br />square feet of total development, including 277,281 square feet of residential buildings <br />that would provide 256 for-rent multi-family residential units and a 167,253 square foot <br />central parking structure and a 284 space surface level parking lot for residential and <br />commercial parking; (3) approval of Development Agreement No. 2018-01 between the <br />City of Santa Ana (“City”) and Applicant; (4) approval of General Plan Amendment No. <br />2018-06, which would change the Project Site’s existing land use designation of <br />Professional & Administration Office (PAO) to District Center (DC); and (5) approval of <br />Amendment Application No. 2018-10, which would change the zoning of the Project Site <br />from Professional (P) to Specific Development No. 93 (SD-93) designation; and