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EXHIBIT 4 <br />REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE. <br />SEPTEMEER 1, 2016 <br />TITLE. <br />PUBLIC HEARING - RESOLUTION TO <br />ADOPT FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT <br />REPORT FOR THE WARNER AVENUE <br />IMPROVEMENTS AND WIDENING PROJECT <br />FROM MAIN STREET TO GRAND AVENUE <br />(STRATEGIC LAN NO.6, 1 B & 1 C) <br />CIT MANAG . <br />CLSRK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY. <br />APPROVED <br />El As Recommended <br />�] As Amended <br />[ Ordinance on 1" Reading <br />El Ordinance on 2"d Reading <br />® Implementing Resolution <br />[I Set Public Hearing Por <br />CONTINUED TO <br />FILE NUMBER <br />1. Adopt a resolution approving the Find Environmental Impact Report for Warner Avenue <br />Improvements and Widening Project from Main Street to Grand Avenue. <br />1 Adopt the Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations for the Warner Avenue Improvements <br />and Widening Project from Main Street to Grand Avenue. <br />3. Adopt the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Warner .Avenue Improvements and <br />Widening Project from Main Strut to Grand Avenue, <br />4. Approve the Warner.Avenue Improvements and Widening Project from Main Street to Grand Avenue <br />QIISCUSSION <br />This action will complete the environmental phase of the Warner Avenue Improvements and Widening <br />Project from Main Street to Grand Avenue (Exhibit 1). The approval of the Final Environmental Impact <br />Report (ETEIR) (Exhibit 2) will allow the City to pursue funding to complete right -of -quay work in preparation <br />for the construction phase of the project. Pending approval of the FEIR, staff will seek Measure M2 <br />Competitive funding in the upcoming call for projects that is tentatively scheduled for October 2015, <br />Warner Avenue is a regionally significant &Aerial roadway providing east -west travel through the City. The <br />existing conditions between Main Street and Grand Avenue have several unsafe features, Including <br />uncontrolled left turns, insufficient access to standards pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), <br />and no bike lanes. There Is also substantial congestion daring peak periods, and. the level of service will <br />worsen as traffic volumes Increase as a result of the Tustin Legacy project and other factors. <br />The City Is proposing to Improve Warner Avenue from Main Street to Grand Avenue by adding sidewalks, <br />bike lanes, undergrounding utilities, and widening the roadway from existing four lames to six lanes, In <br />addition to the on -street dedicated bike lanes (Class II) and ADA,00mpliont sidewalks, the proposal also <br />includes a raised landscape median and a landsoaped parkway buffer, both with drought tolerant plants, <br />75B-1 <br />