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The City has based its actions on full appraisal of all viewpoints, including all comments received up <br />to the date of adoption of these Findings, concerning the environmental impacts identified and <br />analyzed in the Final EIR. <br /> <br />In addition, the City has reviewed and considered the Mitigation Monitoring Program (which is <br />contained in the Final EIR), which describes the process to ensure implementation of the mitigation <br />measures that have been incorporated into the approved project to reduce or avoid significant <br />effects on the environment. This monitoring or reporting program will ensure CEQA compliance <br />during project implementation. <br /> <br />3.0 ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW PROCESS <br /> <br />3.1 Project Background and Objectives <br /> <br />The project site has been used for agricultural purposes since the early 1900s. The site had been <br />considered for development on several occasions in the past. The property was rezoned from R1- <br />PRD (Planned Residential Development) to Specific Development in March 1977, although the site <br />remained in agricultural production following this zoning change. The site--and the agricultural <br />area immediately west of the project site, owned by the project applicant--is one of the few <br />remaining vacant parcels in the City. Presently, a high school proposed by Santa Ana LInffied <br />School District is planned on the approximately 39-acTe parcel immediately east of the project site. <br />The high school would be situated between the proposed church facility and the Jim Thorpe <br />Fundamental School, Church of Latter Day Saints and the Greenville Country Church. <br />Additionally, a development application is pending for a proposed YMCA between the proposed <br />high school and the northern extension of Raitt Street. Recently, an EIR has been certified for the <br />proposed high school. The proposed YMCA would be subject to separate environmental <br />documentation. Both the high school and the YMCA are evaluated as cumulative projects within <br />this EIR. <br /> <br />The overall goals of the project are as follows: <br /> <br /> · To develop an urban inflll residential development consisting of executive and move-up <br /> housing products <br /> · To develop a 2650 seat cathedral and parish for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange <br /> County <br /> <br /> <br />