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CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER PRODUCTION FACILITY EXPANSION The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the State CEQA Guidelines provide that: "CEQA requires the decision maker to balance the benefits of a proposed project against its unavoidable adverse risks in determining whether to approve the project. If the benefits of the proposed project outweigh the unavoidable adverse environmental effects, the adverse impacts may be considered acceptable. Where the decision of the public agency allows the occurrence of significant effects which are identified in the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) but are not mitigated, the agency must state in writing the reasons to support its action based on the Final EIR and/or other information in the record. This statement may be necessary if the agency also makes the finding under Section 15091(aX2)or (aX3). If an agency makes a statement of overriding considerations, the statement should be included in the record of the project approval and should be mentioned in the Notice of Determination." (Section 15093 of the State CEQA Guidelines). PROPOSED PROJECT The City of Santa Ana proposes to approve the expansion of the existing Orange County Register newspaper production facility located at 625 North Grand Avenue in the City of Santa Aha. The expansion project will be constructed in two phases~ and will add 266,675 square feet to the production facility in Phase I and 31%265 square feet in Phase 11. The project related approvals will include a General Plan Amendment; zone change; amendment to the existing Development Agreement; vesting tentative parcel map and street abandonment. Because these actions constitute a project under CEQA and the Guidelines~ an EIR has been prepared by the City of Santa Ana. SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THE PROJECT THAT CANNOT BE MITIGATED TO A LEVEL OF INSIGNIFICANCE The project may have significant or certain substantial adverse impacts on the environment which cannot be fully mitigated. These impacts are identified in the Final EIR and in the Statement of Findings and Facts included in the Final EIR. All the impacts associated with the proposed project have been mitigated to the extent considered feasible and have been reduced through the incorporation of all the mitigation measures as Conditions of Approval. The mitigation measures are listed in the Mitigation Monitoring Program report incorporated in the Final EIR. The significant environmental impacts of the proposed project that cannot be mitigated to a level of significance as identified in the Final EIR and the Statement of Findings and Facts are-' The removal of 190 apartment units located to the north of the existing Register facility.