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H. Support developments that create a business environment that is safe and attractive. Land Use Element Policy 2.8 Enhance development sites and districts which are unique community assets that enhance the quality of life. Land Use Element goal 4.0 Encourage high intensity office development to attract major tenants that will contribute to cultural and business activities of the central city. Land Use Policy No. 1.3 Support projects that contribute to the redevelopment and revitalization of the central city urban areas. Land Use Policy No. 2.7 Create Class A office space suitable for acquisition of major, high profile tenant in the Downtown Development Area. Land Use Policy No. 2.11 Encourage large-scale office development with ancillary retail in the proximity of the Civic Center Complex, Downtown and Midtown urban areas. Land Use Policy No. 2.12 The Council finds that the City's general plan is designed, as it must be, to accommodate a wide range of competing interests - including those of developers, neighborhoods and homeowners, prospective homebuyers, environmentalists, current and prospective business owners, jobseekers, taxpayers, and providers and recipients of all types of city-provided services - and to present a clear and comprehensive set of principles to guide development decisions. The City's general plan sets forth these guiding principles. Once in place, it is the province of this Council to examine the specifics of a proposed project to determine whether it would be in harmony with the policies stated in the general plan. The City Council has weighed and balanced the general plan's policies, both new and old, and has determined that based upon this balancing that the One Broadway project is consistent with the purpose of the general plan. Final Environmental Impact Report No. 99-01, the Mitigation Monitoring Program, and the Statement of Overriding Considerations which came before the City Council on March 15, 2004, and was approved and adopted by resolution at the July 6, 2004 hearing. At the July 6, 2004 meeting, the City Council also adopted an ordinance amending the Midtown Specific Plan (ZOA No. 2004-02) and rezoning the property (M No. 2004-01), a resolution amending the City's general plan (GPA No. 2004-01), and a resolution approving Tentative Tract Map No. 2004-02. This resolution incorporates by reference, as though fully set forth herein, the ordinance and resolutions and said Final Environmental Impact Report, Mitigation Monitoring Program. and Statement of Overriding 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. I. J. 75E-24 Resolution No. 2004-021 Page 3 of 5