75A - PH METRO EAST MIXED USE OVERLAY (MEMU)

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Chapter Introduction This document presents the Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations that must be adopted by the City of Santa Ana (City) pursuant to the requirements of Sections 15091 and 15093, respectively, of the California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines (State CEQA Guidelines) prior to the approval of the Metro East Mixed -Use (MEMU) Overlay District Expansion and Elan Development Projects (proposed project). This document is organized as follows: Chapter 1 Introduces the Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations. Chapter 2 Presents the CEQA Findings of the Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), including the identified significant impacts. Chapter 3 Presents the alternatives to the proposed project and evaluates them in relation to the findings contained in Section 15091(a)(3) of the State CEQA Guidelines. The City must consider and make findings regarding alternatives when a project would involve environmental impacts that cannot be reduced to a less -than - significant level, or cannot be substantially reduced, by proposed mitigation measures. Chapter 4 Presents a Statement of Overriding Considerations that is required in accordance with Section 15093 of the State CEQA Guidelines for significant impacts of the proposed project that cannot be mitigated to a less -than - significant level. As stated in the SEIR, the MEMU Overlay Zone is a land use plan that guides the physical development within the boundaries of the Overlay Zone. It is not an implementation plan, and adoption of the Overlay Zone does not constitute a commitment to any specific project, construction schedule, or funding priority. Each development proposal undertaken during the planning horizon of the Overlay Zone must be approved individually by the City in compliance with CEQA. Therefore, the MEMU Overlay Zone is analyzed at a program level, which evaluates the effects of the implementation of the entire Overlay Zone. In addition, the Elan Development Project converges with the proposed modifications to the MEMU Overlay Zone, and represents a development proposal within the MEMU Overlay Zone expansion area that must be approved individually in accordance with CEQA. Therefore, the Elan Development Project is described in detail, and a project -level analysis of the potential environmental impacts is provided concurrently with the program -level analysis of the MEMU Overlay Zone Expansion within the SEIR With respect to other individual development projects that may be proposed during the Overlay Zone planning horizon, Section 15168(c) of the State CEQA Guidelines states that subsequent activities should be examined in light of the SEIR to determine whether additional environmental documentation must be prepared. If a later activity would have effects that were not examined in the Metro East Miffed -Use Overlay District Expansion and Elan August 2018 Development Projects 1-1 ICF 19.18 Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations 75A-137