2002-098 - Certifying teh Environmental Impact Report, Approving a Mitigation

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work studios, pursuant to Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. V= Will the proposed use adversely affect the General Plan or any specific plan of the City? The proposed use will not adversely affect the General Plan. Live-Work studios are permitted subject to a conditional use permit within the Central Business-Artist's Village (C3-A) zoning district and the District Center (DC) General Plan designation. The proposal is supported by the Land Use Element Goals: 1.0, Promote a balance of land uses to address basic community needs; Goal 2.0, Promote land uses which enhance the City's economic and fiscal viability; Goal 4.0, Protect and enhance developments sites and districts which are unique community assets that enhance the quality of life; and Goal 5.0 Ensure that the impacts of development aro mitigated. On October 28, 2002, after conducting a public hearing and consideration of issues related to parking, over-concentration of ABC licensed establishments, laundry facilities and rouse of the existing historic structure, the Planning Commission recommended denial of the project by a vote of 4:2 (Mondo and Nalle opposed; Doughty absent). G. Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) No. 2001-02 has been prepared for the Project. Section 2. The City Council has reviewed and considered the information contained in the Final EIR prepared with respect to this Project. The City Council has, as a result of its consideration of the record as a whole and the evidence presented at the hearings on this matter, determined that, as required pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") and the State CEQA Guidelines, the Final EIR meets all requirement of CEQA, including but limited to'. finding that the Final EIR adequately addresses the impacts of the project; that it identifies and through the mitigation monitoring plan imposes all feasible mitigation measures which will reduce all of the significant environmental impacts of the Project to a level of insignificance, except those unavoidable impacts described more specifically in the statement of overriding considerations; discusses a reasonable range of alternatives to the Project; identifies the environmentally superior alternative; and based upon all of which and the record as a whole the Council chooses to approve the Project. The City Council hereby certifies and approves the Final EIR, the mitigation monitoring plan, the facts, findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations attached to this Resolution, and directs that a Notice of Determination be prepared and filed with the County Clerk of the County of Orange in the manner required by law. Resolution No. 2002-098 Page 7 of 14