2014-060 - Adopting Findings Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act

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SeAngor Farmhouse and Orchard Residential Development Project CEQA Findings The responses of the Lead Agency to significant environmental points raised in the review and consultation process; • Any other information added by the Lead Agency, 3.0 Proposed Project: "Historic Preservation Alternative" The project as currently proposed, and as described in the Draft EIR as "the Historic Preservation Alternative", would keep in place the existing residential structure and garage located on an approximately 10,044 square foot lot on the northwest corner of the project site. The exterior of the residential structure and garage would be rehabilitated to Secretary of the Interior historic preservation standards, and the home and garage would be returned to single family residential use per building code requirements for habitable structures. Subsequently, the home would be available for sale for residential use. Approximately ten orange trees currently exist in this portion of the property. Additional orange trees would be planted in order to fill out the orchard, and any dead trees would be removed and replaced with new orange trees. Twenty -two new single family residences would be developed on the remaining areas of the property, each with a lot size ranging from 6,000 square feet to 8,611 square feet. Average lot size would be approximately 6,609 square feet. The project would involve a roadway dedication of approximately eight feet along Santa Clara Avenue which would reduce the setback to five feet for the residential structure that is being preserved. A connection with Lyon Street to the south and Santa Clara Avenue to the north is also included. This project would result in no significant and unavoidable impacts. This is the applicant's final proposed project, and the subject of these CEQA Findings. 4.0 Findings Regarding Resource Areas Where It Can Be Seen With Certainty There Is No Potential For Environmental Impacts Consistent with Public Resources Code section 21002.1 and State CEQA Guidelines section 15128, the EIR focused its analysis on potentially significant impacts, and limited discussion of other impacts for which it can be seen with certainty there is no potential for significant adverse environmental impacts. State CEQA Guidelines section 15091 does not require speck findings to address environmental effects that an EIR identifies as "no impact" or a "less than significant" impact. Nevertheless, the City Council hereby finds that there is no possibility that the Project would have any impact to the following resource areas: A, AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES 1. Impacts: Will the project convert Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland, or Farmland of Statewide Importance to non - agricultural use? Will the project conflict with existing zoning for agricultural use or a Williamson Contract? "Exhibit A"