2015-016 - The Bristol Street Widening Project

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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORTADDENDUM Bristol Street Widening Project Warner Ave to Saint Andrew Place (Phase IV) (a) The lead agency or a responsible agency shall prepare an addendum to a previously certified EIR if some changes or additions are necessary but none of the conditions described in Section 15162 calling for preparation of a subsequent FIR have occurred. (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. (CEQA Guidelines Section 15164) This Addendum to the previously certified Final EIS/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. As shown in this Addendum, although the proposed modifications would result in development that differs from that in the 1990 Final EIS /EIR, they do not trigger the need for preparation of a Subsequent or Supplemental EIR under the criteria listed in Sections 15162(a) and 15163(a). Sections 2 and 3 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 IV project located between Warner Avenue and St. Andrew Place that will require major revisions to the previously certified 1990 Final EIS /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 do not result in new or substantially greater significant impacts because the scale and nature of the development proposed are sufficiently similar to that analyzed in the 1990 Final EIS/EIR that the impacts of the proposed modifications are within the levels and types of environmental impacts disclosed in the 1990 Final EIS/EIR. Additionally, no substantial changes in circumstances under Section 15162(a)(2) have occurred since the certification of the 1990 Final EIS /EIR for the approved project that would implicate 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 Final EIS /EIR preparation, has been revealed that shows new or substantially greater significant impacts will 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 impacts of the approved project but that are not adopted. The proposed modifications do not identify or require adoption of any further Mitigation Measures or Alternatives beyond those provided in the certified 1990 Final EIS/EIR for the approved project, since additional Mitigation Measures are either not necessary or not feasible, and the Alternatives analyzed in the 1990 Final EIS /EIR represent a reasonable range as requested by CEQA (see CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a)(3)). The Addendum relies on the certified 1990 Final EIS/EIR and the related administrative record, in addition to the additional documentation included to support the Addendum, including the appendices. The Addendum is to be included or attached to the 1990 Final EIS/EIR and is not to be considered as an independent or separate document. As this Addendum does not identify new or substantially greater significant impacts, circulation for public review and comment is not necessary pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15164(c). However, the City ANA 305 -194 (PER 02) CSA (AUGUST 2014) 133867 YU 3