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City Place Sky Lofts Final Environmental Findings • Develop the City Place as a commercial and residential center that provides entertainment, shopping, dining, and living opportunities for the residents of Santa Ana and surrounding area, and that maximizes the advantages of the site location on Main Street in terms of its visibility and proximity to SR 22. • Develop the vacant project site with land uses to help meet the residential needs in the northeastern part of the City of Santa Ana. • Provide development that is consistent with the District Center designation of the General Plan and which contributes to the continued revitalization of the northeastern area of the City of Santa Ana. • Provide concentrated and internally integrated development rather than development that spreads activities into adjacent residential neighborhoods. Introduce a mixture of multi-family housing types to the district. • Maximize the residential density of the vacant site in City Place to support the purpose of the General Plan designation of District Center, which is intended for high intensity development. 2. The project would be consistent with existing development in the area which reflects an urban environment preserving the aesthetic qualities of the City and helping to make the area a source of pride to people living and working in Santa Ana and for visitors to the City. 3. Furthermore, there are no alternative sites in the City that are suitable for this project, as described in the Final EIR. Therefore, there are no feasible alternative sites or mitigation measures that would reduce or eliminate the significant unavoidable adverse impacts of the proposed project related to aesthetics, air quality, and traffic. For the reasons stated above, and based on substantial evidence in the record before it, the City finds that the unavoidable adverse impacts of the City Place Sky Lofts project related to aesthetics, air quality, and traffic are acceptable and, furthermore, finds that the benefits of the project outweigh its unavoidable adverse environmental impacts. 8.0 RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS Various documents and other materials constitute the record of proceedings on which the City of Santa Ana bases its Findings and decisions contained herein. Most documents related to this Final E[R are located at the City of Santa Ana, Planning and Building Department, 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, California, 92702. Some documents included in the record of proceedings may also be located at the offices of consultants retained by the City for this project. 9.0 SUMMARY 1. Based on the foregoing Findings and the information contained in the record, the City of Santa Ana has made one or more of the following Findings with respect to each significant adverse impact of the proposed project, as identified in the Final EIR: F: IPROJ-ENVICity Place SkyLoftslFinal EIRIFindings-SOCIFindings-SOC.doc Page 32 January 23, 2009 75A-142