2004-020 - Statement Overriding Considerations for the Property Located at One Broadway Plaza

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All attached documents, including the Final EIR, the mitigation monitoring plan, the 50 pages of findings and approvals, the Request for Council Action, and the record of proceedings are incorporated herein by this reference as though fully set forth. At the July 19, 2004 meeting, the City Council also introduced an ordinance amending the Midtown Specific Plan (lOA No. 2004-02) and rezoning the property (AA No. 2004-01), and adopted a resolution amending the City's general plan (GPA No. 2004-01), and a resolution approving Tentative Parcel 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 Considerations, and all of their respective facts, findings and conclusions in support of this resolution and the findings made herein. 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 (UCEQA") 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 8 8 H. 8 4. As a result of this input, the City prepared a Draft EIR for this proposed project, which was submitted for public comment to all responsible agencies, the State Clearinghouse, neighboring communities and districts, neighborhoods in the vicinity and the requesting public. All comments to the Draft EIR were considered and responded to in the proposed Final EIR (which includes the Draft EIR and errata). A proposed mitigation monitoring plan has been prepared, as has 50 pages of certain facts, findings and statements, which are attached to this Resolution. At its regular meeting of February 23, 2003, the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana, following a duly noticed public hearing, voted by a vote of 6: 1 (Sinclair opposed) to recommend to the City Council that it adopt this Final EIR, the mitigation monitoring plan, and certain facts, findings and statements. The City Council has fully considered this matter, and all public testimony, at a duly noticed public hearing held at its regularly scheduled meeting of March 15, 2004 and the second duly noticed public hearing held at its regularly scheduled meeting of July 19, 2004. 5. 6. 7. 8. Resolution No. 2004-020 Page 3 of 73