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City Place Sky Lofts Final E'nvironrnental Impact Report Findings • Aesthetics • Air Quality • Traffic The No Project/Existing Conditions Alternative is not anticipated to result in any significant unavoidable adverse impacts because it does not propose any development on the project site. The No Project/Existing Entitlement Alternative is not anticipated to result in any significant unavoidable adverse impacts, and impacts would be substantially less than under the proposed project because of the substantially reduced amount of development on the project site under this Alternative. The Town Home Alternative would result in less-than-significant impacts except for potential short-term traffic impacts. All impacts of the Town Home Alternative would be less than under the proposed project because this Alternative would result in less intense development on the project site. As shown in Table 9-l, because the No Project/Existing Conditions Alternative and No Project/Existing Entitlement Alternative do not result in any significant unavoidable adverse impacts and would result in even less impacts than the Town Home Alternative, they are the environmentally superior alternatives. CEQA requires the identification of an additional feasible environmentally superior alternative when the No Project Alternative is determined to be the environmentally superior alternative. Many of the environmental impacts of the proposed project and the project Alternatives are directly related to the size or intensity of the development and, in general, projects of higher intensity will generally result in more adverse impacts compared to alternatives of a lower intensity. As shown in Table 9-1, the Town Home Alternative would result in fewer significant unavoidable adverse impacts than the proposed project. Therefore, of the build alternatives, the Town Home Alternative is the environmentally superior alternative. 7.0 STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS The City of Santa Ana has balanced the benefits of the City Place Sky Lofts project against its ~mavoidable adverse environmental impacts in determining that the specific economic, legal, social, technological, and/or other benefits outweigh the unavoidable significant adverse envirommental impacts of the project. Section 15093(b) of the CEQA Guidelines provides that when the decision of a public agency results in the occurrence of significant adverse impacts that are identified in the Final EIR but are not substantially mitigated, the agency must state in writing the reasons to support its actions based on the Final EIR and/or other information in the record. The reasons set forth below are based on the Final EIR and other information in the record. Based on the substantial evidence in the record, including but not limited to the Final EIR, the City finds that the benefits of the City Place Sky Lofts project outweigh its unavoidable adverse environmental impacts and, furthermore, finds that such adverse environmental effects are acceptable. Each of the separate benefits of the project, as stated below, is determined to be, unto itself and independent of other project benefits, a basis for overriding all unavoidable adverse impacts identified in these Findings. The reasons for the approval of the project despite the occurrence of significant unavoidable adverse impacts related to aesthetics, air quality, and traffic are: 1. The project would allow the City to achieve the objectives and to avoid or minimize significant adverse environmental impacts to the extent feasible. The project will: F: IPROJ-ENVICity Place Sky LoftslFinal EIRIFindings-SOCIFindings-SOC.doc Page 31 January 23, 2009 75A-141