2005-107 - Environmental Impact Report for the Shea Homes Development Located at 2800 North Farmers Drive

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B. At its regular meeting of October 10, 2005, the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana, following a duly noticed public hearing, by a vote of 6:0 (Lutz absent) recommended to the City Council that it adopt: 1. A resolution certifying Final Environmental Impact Report No. 2005- 01, the mitigation monitoring program, and certain facts, findings and statements. 2. An ordinance approving Amendment Application NO.2005-02 and Specific Development Plan No. 77. 3. A resolution approving Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 2005-05 (County Map No. 16905) as conditioned. 4. A resolution approving Site Plan Review No. 2005-04 to construct 36 single-family residences at 2800 North Farmers Drive C. 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 November 7,2005. D. All attached documents, including the Final EIR, the mitigation monitoring plan, the 27 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. 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. Section 3. Pursuant to Title XIV, California Code of Regulations ("CCR") 9 735.5(c)(1), the City Council has determined that, after considering the record as a whole, there is no evidence that the proposed project will have the potential for any Resolution No. 2005-107 Page 2 of 38