55B - RESO - EIR BRISTOL ST WIDENING

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT ADDENDUM Bristol Street Widening Phase IIIB — Washington Avenue to 17`" Street (b) An addendum to an adopted negative declaration may be prepared if only minor technical changes or additions are necessary or none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for the preparation of a subsequent EIR or negative declaration have occurred. (c) An addendum need not be circulated for public review but can be included in or attached to the final EIR or adopted negative declaration. (d) The decision making body shall consider the addendum with the final EIR or adopted negative declaration prior to making a decision on the project. (e) A brief explanation of the decision not to prepare a subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 should be included in an addendum to an EIR, the lead agency's findings on the project, or elsewhere in the record. The explanation must be supported by substantial evidence. This Addendum to the previously certified FEIS /EIR for the approved Project has been prepared because the evaluation of the proposed modifications does not result in any of the circumstances requiring a Subsequent or Supplemental EIS /EIR. Although the proposed modifications would result in development that differs from that in the 1990 FEIS /EIR, those modifications do not trigger the need for preparation of a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR under the criteria listed in CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and 15163, respectively. Sections 2.0 and 3.0 of this Addendum demonstrate that no substantial changes are proposed in the approved Project or have occurred in the area of the Bristol Street Widening Phase IIIB Project that will require major revisions to the previously certified 1990 FEIS /EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. Specifically, the proposed modifications, as compared to the 1990 FEIS /EIR, do not result in new or substantially greater significant impacts because the scale and nature of the proposed modifications are sufficiently similar to that analyzed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR such that the impacts of the proposed modifications are within the levels and types of environmental impacts disclosed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR. In addition, no substantial changes in circumstances under Section 15162(a)(2) have occurred since the certification of the 1990 FEIS/EIR for the approved Project that would result in new significant impacts or substantially increase the severity of significant impacts previously identified, since the background environmental conditions have not significantly changed since that time. The City of Santa Ana has received no information indicating there has been a substantial change in any circumstances that would result in a new or substantially greater significant impact. Furthermore, no new information, which was not known and could not have been known at the time of the 1990 FEIS/EIR preparation, has been revealed that shows new or substantially greater significant impacts would result (see CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3)). In addition, there are no new or different mitigation measures or alternatives that would substantially reduce one or more significant ANA 1 I 1 -334 (PER -02 -01) C1Ty of SANTA ANA (11/25/2013 REV2) 132897 CM PAGE 3 55B -10