Laserfiche WebLink
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT ADDENDUM <br />Bristol Street Widening Phase IIIA— Civic Center Drive to Washington Avenue <br />(c) An addendum need not be circulated for public review but can be included in or <br />attached to the final EIR or adopted negative declaration. <br />(d) The decision making body shall consider the addendum with the final EIR or <br />adopted negative declaration prior to malting a decision on the project. <br />(e) A brief explanation of the decision not to prepare a subsequent EIR pursuant to Section 15162 <br />should be included in an addendum to an EIR, the lead agency's findings on the project, or elsewhere in <br />the record. The explanation must be supported by substantial evidence. <br />This Addendum to the previously certified FEIS/EIR for the approved Project has been prepared because <br />the evaluation of the proposed modifications does not result in any of the circumstances requiring a <br />Subsequent or Supplemental EIS /EIR. Although the proposed modifications would result in development <br />that differs from that in the 1990 FEIS /EIR, those modifications do not trigger the need for preparation of <br />a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR under the criteria listed in CEQA Guidelines Sections 15162 and <br />15163, respectively. Sections 2.0 and 3.0 of this Addendum demonstrate that no substantial changes are <br />proposed in the approved Project or have occurred in the area of the Bristol Street Widening Phase IIIA <br />Project that will require major revisions to the previously certified 1990 FEIS /EIR due to the involvement <br />of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified <br />significant effects. Specifically, the proposed modifications, as compared to the 1990 FEIS/EIR, do not <br />result in new or substantially greater significant impacts because the scale and nature of the proposed <br />modifications are sufficiently similar to that analyzed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR such that the impacts of the <br />proposed modifications are within the levels and types of environmental impacts disclosed in the 1990 <br />FEIS /EIR. <br />In addition, no substantial changes in circumstances under Section 15162(a)(2) have occurred since the <br />certification of the 1990 FEIS /EIR for the approved Project that would result in new significant impacts <br />or substantially increase the severity of significant impacts previously identified, since the background <br />environmental conditions have not significantly changed since that time. The City of Santa Ana has <br />received no information indicating there has been a substantial change in any circumstances that would <br />result in a new or substantially greater significant impact. <br />Furthermore, no new information, which was not known and could not have been known at the time of <br />the 1990 FEIS/EIR preparation, has been revealed that shows new or substantially greater significant <br />impacts would result (see CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3)). In addition, there are no new or <br />different mitigation measures or alternatives that would substantially reduce one or more significant <br />impacts of the approved Project but that are not adopted. The proposed modifications do not identify or <br />require adoption of any further mitigation measures or alternatives beyond those provided in the certified <br />1990 FEIS /EIR for the approved Project, since additional mitigation measures are either not necessary or <br />not feasible, and the alternatives analyzed in the 1990 FEIS /EIR represent a reasonable range as required <br />pursuant to CEQA [see CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3)]. <br />This Addendum relies on the certified 1990 FEIS/EIR and the related administrative record, in addition to <br />the additional documentation included to support the Addendum, including the appendices. The <br />Addendum is to be included or attached to the 1990 FEIS /EIR and is not to be considered as an <br />independent or separate document. <br />As this Addendum does not identify new or substantially greater significant impacts, circulation for <br />public review and comment is not necessary pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164(c). However, <br />the City Council will consider and adopt or reject this Addendum at a public meeting (refer to CEQA <br />Guidelines Section 15164(d)). The findings of the City Council in its resolution of adoption of this <br />Addendum, if adopted, will reflect this Addendum which provides the basis and substantial evidence for <br />ANA 305 -011 (PER 02) CITY OF SANTA ANA (01/19/2015) YU PAGE 3 <br />