2002-077 - Certifying the Environmental Impact Report for the Armstrong Ranch Development Project

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is designed to serve this purpose for the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR. The MMP requires the City to monitor mitigation measures designed to reduce or eliminate significant impacts, as well as those mitigation measures designed to reduce environmental impacts that are less than significant. The MMP includes all of the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and has been designed to ensure compliance during implementation of the project. The City finds that the impacts of the project have b~en mitigated to the extent feasible by the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and in the MMP. The City adopts the Mitigation Monitoring Project for the project that accompanies the Final EIR. The monitoring program designates responsibility and anticipated timing for the implementation of mitigation measures and conditions within the jurisdiction of the City. That program is hereby adopted and its implementation is hereby made a condition of approval. The City approves and will implement all of the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR. 6.0 ALTERNATIVES An EIR prepared pursuant to CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines must describe and comparatively evaluate a range of alternatives to the proposed project (see § 15126.6 of the CEQA Guidelines). Analysis of every possible alternative or option or combination of options would overburden the EIR with an unnecessary amount of detail that would be redundant and complex, and would as a result fail to provide meaningful information for the City to consider in its review of the project. To develop the alternatives that are analyzed herein, a list of potential alternatives was prepared. For purposes of this analysis, the project alternatives are evaluated to determine the extent to which they attain the basic project objectives~ while significantly lessening any significant effects of the project. The City of Santa Ana selected the alternatives below for a variety of reasons; however, the goal for evaluating any, and all, of these alternatives is to identify ways to mitigate or avoid the significant environmental effects identified above resulting from the proposed project. Additionally, during the preparation of DEIR, the applicant requested that a design alternative be considered that evaluates a 45,00-square-foot basement that would fUnction as an undercroft facility. This EIR analyzes the following alternatives: · Alternative 1: No project · Alternative 2: Residential Area Developed Under Existing SD 4 Zoning Standards at 5.6 Dwelling Units Per Acre with proposed church facility 29