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WHEREAS, the City received 17 written comment letters during the public review period for the EA /DEIR and prepared responses to the same. Responses were also prepared to oral comments made during the aforementioned meetings held during the public review period; and WHEREAS, pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21092.5, the City provided copies of the written responses to all commenting public agencies; and WHEREAS, the EA /DEIR assessed the environmental impacts of a number of alternative versions of the Project, without indicating a preference for any particular alternative; and WHEREAS, after review of the public comments and testimony received during the 45 -day public review period, the City Council of the City of Santa selected, via Resolution No. 2001 -049 (adopted on August 5, 2014), "Streetcar Alternative 1" (Operations & Maintenance Facility Site B [west of Raitt Street] and Fourth Street Parking Scenario A [parallel parking]) as the "Locally Preferred Alternative" to be implemented. For the purposes of this Resolution, the "Project" shall hereafter refer to Streetcar Alternative 1, as described in Resolution No. 2001 -049; and WHEREAS, the City has prepared a Revised Environmental Assessment/Final Environmental Impact Report ( "REA /FEIR "), consisting of comments received during the 45 -day public review and comment period on the EA /DEIR, written responses to those comments, and revisions and errata to the EA /DEIR. For the purposes of this Resolution, the "REA/FEIR" shall refer to the EA/DEIR, as revised by the REA /FEIR's errata section, together with the other sections of the REA /FEIR; and WHEREAS, as contained herein, the City has endeavored in good faith to set forth the basis for its decision on the Project; and WHEREAS, all requirements of CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines have been satisfied in the REA /FEIR, which is sufficiently detailed so that all of the potentially significant environmental effects of the Project have been adequately evaluated; and WHEREAS, the REA /FEIR sufficiently analyzes both the feasible mitigation measures necessary to avoid or substantially lessen the Project's potential environmental impacts and a range of feasible alternatives capable of eliminating or reducing these effects in accordance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines; and WHEREAS, all of the findings and conclusions made by the City Council pursuant to this Resolution are based upon oral and written evidence presented to it as a whole and the entirety of the record of proceedings on the Project, which is hereby incorporated by this reference, and not based solely on the information provided in this Resolution; and Resolution No. 2015 -xxx Page 2 of 4 75A -8