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2525 North Main Street October 28, 2019 Page 9 zoning district development standards, which could result in an approximately 390,000 square foot office building (Alternative 3). The Draft EIR determined that the originally proposed project would require mitigation related to aesthetics, air quality, biological resources, hazardous materials, construction noise and vibration, interior noise, and tribal resources. Aesthetic impacts would remain significant and unavoidable after mitigation. On August 7, 2018, the Draft EIR was circulated for review and comment to public, City Council, Planning Commission, local, regional and state agencies, and interested parties for a 45-day public comment review period. In addition, a Planning Commission public hearing was held on August 27, 2018 where staff presented the EIR process and environmental information to the Planning Commission and pubic and received public comments on the DEIR. To allow for additional time for public review and comment, and at the request of the North Santa Ana Preservation Alliance, the City extended the DEIR public comment period by an additional two weeks. At the close of the review and comment period on October 4, 2018, a total of 44 comment letters were received on the Draft EIR. The City has evaluated the comments received from persons and agencies on the Draft EIR and completed detailed Response to Comments, revisions to the Draft EIR including clarifications and/or corrections to typographical errors, and a Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP). The response to comments, MMRP and Final EIR were published on November 15, 2018 for public review. The Draft EIR, responses to comments document, and revisions to the Draft EIR the Final EIR for the project. The EIR identified one significant and unavoidable impact associated with the originally proposed project, which pertains to aesthetics. Based on the City's visual criteria related to scale, height and setbacks, it was determined that the originally project would result in a substantial change in views from existing conditions and would result in a significant and unavoidable impact to the aesthetics. The October Modified Project would have similar aesthetic impacts compared to the originally proposed project. As a result of this impact that cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level, adoption of a Statement of Overriding Considerations is required before the City Council can approve the October modified project. A Statement of Overriding Considerations is the process through which decision makers balance the economic, legal, social, and technological or other benefits of the proposed project against its unavoidable environmental impacts. Clarifications to the Final EIR Clarifications to the Final EIR (October 2019) have been prepared to determine if any new or additional environmental impacts would result from the October modified project. The analysis concludes that the October modified project, which reduces the number of units by 240 units from 496 to 256 (48.3 percent reduction), reduces the height of the structures, revises the vehicular entry to the project, incorporates surface level parking lots to increase building setbacks along the east and south property lines, and creates a separate parcel of land for parking purposes would not result in any new adverse environmental impacts from those that were previously disclosed