2017-046 - Approving Addendum Nos. 1 and 2

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Santa Ana/Garden Grove Fixed Guideway Project Addendum Findings from Environmental Re-evaluation (1). Substantial changes are not proposed for the project that will require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new, significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified effects. Substantial changes have not occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the Project was undertaken, that would require major revisions to the Project EIR. Since certification of the Project EIR in January 2015, there have been no major updates to the CEQA Guidelines or adoption of new legislation requiring additional environmental analysis. Therefore, no proposed changes or revisions to the EIR are required. In addition, all previously adopted mitigation measures are incorporated herein by reference. (2). Substantial changes have not occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the project is undertaken, that would require major revisions of the previous EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. As described in the preceding text for each environmental issue area, no substantial changes have occurred with respect to the circumstances under which the proposed Project design modifications would be undertaken that would suggest that its adoption and implementation would result in any new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the seventy of the previously identified significant effects not previously discussed in the certified Project EIR would occur. Therefore, no proposed changes or revisions to the EIR are required. In addition, all previously adopted mitigation measures presented in the Project EIR are incorporated herein by reference and would be implemented in compliance with the adopted MMRP for the Project. (3). No new information has been provided, which was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the previous EIR was certified as complete that would indicate that the proposed project would result in one or more signiricant effects not discussed in the previous EIR, significant effects would be substantially more severe, mitigation measures or altematives previously found to be infeasible would in fact be feasible, or mitigation measures or alternatives which are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous EIR would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but the project proponent declines to adopt the mitigation measure or alternative. There is nothing in the proposed Project design modifications that would suggest that its adoption and implementation would result in any new significant environmental effects or the increase in the severity of an environmental effect not previously discussed in the Project EIR. Therefore, no proposed changes or revisions to the EIR are required. In addition, all previously adopted mitigation measures presented in the Project EIR are incorporated herein by reference and would be implemented in compliance with the adopted MMRP for the Project. 6. CONCLUSIONS Based on the findings and information contained in the previously -certified Project EIR, the analysis above, the CEQA statute and State CEQA Guidelines, including Sections 15164 and 15162, the proposed design modifications will not result in any new, increased, or substantially different impacts, other than those previously considered and addressed in the Project EIR. No changes or additions to the Project EIR analyses are necessary, nor is there a need for any additional mitigation measures. Therefore, a Supplemental EIR is not required. This Addendum to the EIR is the appropriate environmental documentation for the proposed modifications to the Project. 161P age 1170726.1