2005-016 - Statement of Overriding Considerations for the Property Located at 2725 North Main Street

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. . . City Place Focused Environmentallmpact Report Findings and Facts in Support of Findings 5.0 MITIGATION MONITORING PROGRAM When making findings, CEQA requires that a lead agency must adopt a reporting or monitoring program for the changes to the project that it has adopted or made a condition of project approval in order to ensure compliance during project implementation. The MMP for the City Place project, accompanying the Final EIR, is designed to serve this purpose for the mitigation measures identified in tbe Final EIR. The MMP requires tbe City to monitor mitigation measures designed to reduce or eliminate significant adverse project impacts, as well as those mitigation measures designed to reduce environmental impacts that are less than significant. The MMP includes all mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and has been designed to ensure compliance during implementation of the project. The City finds that the impacts of the project have been mitigated to the extent feasible by the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and the MMP. Tbe City adopts the MMP for the City Place project. The MMP designates responsibility and the anticipated timing for the implementation of mitigation measures and conditions within the jurisdiction of the City of Santa Ana. That MMP is hereby adopted and its implementation is made a condition of approval of the City Place project. The City approves and will implement all the mitigation measures in the Final EIR. 6.0 ALTERNATIVES An EIR prepared pursuant to CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines must describe and comparatively evaluate a range of alternatives to the proposed project (Section 15126.6 of the CEQA Guidelines). Analysis of every possible alternative or options or combination of options would overburden the EIR with an unnecessary amount of detail that would be redundant and complex and would, as a result, fail to provide meaningful information for the City to consider in its review of the project. To develop alternatives that are analyzed in the EIR, a list of potential alternatives was prepared. For this analysis, the project alternatives were evaluated to determine the extent to whicb they meet the basic project objectives, while avoiding or substantially lessening any significant adverse impacts of the proposed project. The City of Santa Ana selected tbe alternatives discussed below for a variety of reasons. The goal for evaluating alternatives was to identify ways to mitigate or avoid the significant adverse impacts ofthe proposed proj ect. The EIR evaluated the following alternatives. 6.1 ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED BUT REJECTED Potential alternatives to the City Place project that were considered by the City but rejected and not evaluated in the current EIR are based on City of Santa Ana EIR 92-02, certified by the City of Santa Ana City Council in 1992, for the approved Main Street Concourse Project. In addition, no alternative site for the proposed project was considered in this EIR. These alternatives which were considered by the City but which were not carried forward for detailed analysis in the EIR are described in the following Sections. C:\Documents and SettingslBKaufmanlLocal SettingslTemporary Internet Files\OLKBICity Place findings. doc September 29. 2004 Resolution 2005-016 Page 45 of 53 Page.