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

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One Broadway Plaza Environmental Impact Report of the regularly scheduled September 81, 2003 City of Santa Ana Planning Commission meeting. This meeting was held in the City of Santa Ana Council Chambers (22 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana). A total of 31 persons spoke during the public hearing. Appendix D in the Responses to Comments Report provides a list of all the persons who spoke at the Planning Commission public hearing. The transcript from the public hearing is provided in the Responses to Comments Report. Findings and Facts in Support of Findings 3.2.2.4 Written Responses to Written Comments and Input from the Planning Commission Public Hearing The City evaluated the comments on environmental issues received from persons who reviewed the EIR. In accordance with CEQA, the City prepared written responses describing the disposition of significant environmental issues raised in these comments. As required by CEQA, the City has provided to each of the public agencies that commented on the Draft EIR responses to the comments received from that agency at least ten days prior to the certification of the Final EIR. The Final EIR provided adequate, good faith and reasoned responses to the comments. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5, a lead agency is required to recirculate and EIR when significant new information is added to the EIR after the Notice of Availability is given, but before certification. The term information specifically includes: (i) (ii) (iii) Changes to the project, Changes in the environmental setting or Additional new data or other information. CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5 further provides that".. .new information added to an EIR is not "significant" unless the EIR is changed in a way that deprives the public of a meaningful opportunity to comment upon a substantial adverse environmental effect of the project or a feasible way to mitigate or avoid such an effect (including a feasible project alternative) that the project's proponents have declined to implement." The City has reviewed the comments received and the responses to those comments as well as other text changes and references that have been incorporated into the EIR. Since the release of the Draft EIR for public review, there have been no changes to the project; no changes in the environmental setting; and no additional data or information was added to the EIR which would deprive the public of a meaningful opportunity to comment on the project. Therefore, having reviewed the information contained in the Draft and Final EIRs and in the administrative record, as well as the requirements under CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5 regarding recirculation of draft EIRs, the City hereby finds that there is no new significant information and no need to recirculate the EIR. Therefore, the Final EIR has been prepared and considered by the City. 3.3 FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMP ACT REPORT The City has prepared a Final EIR for the One Broadway Plaza project. In accordance with the requirements of CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines, the Final EIR consists of: Resolution No. 2004-020 Page 30 of 73