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environmental impacts associated with this Ordinance. The City Council finds that the <br />Addendum has been completed in compliance with CEQA and the State CEQA <br />Guidelines. The City Council further finds and determines that the Addendum reflects <br />the City's independent judgment. <br />Based on the substantial evidence set forth in the record, including but not <br />limited to the GPU EIR and the Addendum, the City Council finds that an addendum is <br />the appropriate document for disclosing the changes to the GPU, and that none of the <br />conditions identified in Public Resources Code section 21166 and State CEQA <br />Guidelines section 15162 requiring subsequent environmental review have occurred, <br />because the Ordinance does not change or alter in any way the existing land use <br />designations City-wide set forth in the General Plan Update and analyzed in the GP <br />EIR. No development, redevelopment, or change to existing development type in the <br />City is proposed or required to implement the Ordinance. The buildout of housing had <br />previously been analyzed within the scope of the GPU EIR, and the Ordinance would <br />not result in additional development of housing within the City. Based on these <br />findings, the City Council makes the following findings: <br />a) The Ordinance does not constitute a substantial change that would <br />require major revisions of the GPU EIR due to the involvement of new <br />significant environmental effects. <br />b) There is not a substantial change with respect to the circumstances under <br />which the Ordinance will be implemented that would require major <br />revisions of the GPU due to the involvement of new significant <br />environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of the <br />previously identified significant effects. <br />New information of substantial importance has not been presented that <br />was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of <br />reasonable diligence at the time the GPU was certified or adopted, <br />showing any of the following: (i) that the modifications would have one or <br />more significant effects not discussed in the earlier environmental <br />documentation; (ii) that significant effects previously examined would be <br />substantially more severe than shown in the earlier environmental <br />documentation; (iii} that mitigation measures or alternatives previously <br />found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially <br />reduce one or more significant effects, but the applicant declined to adopt <br />such measures; or (iv) that mitigation measures or alternatives <br />considerably different from those analyzed previously would substantially <br />reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but which the <br />applicant declined to adopt. <br />The City Council approves and adopts the Addendum, attached hereto as Exhibit A. <br />The GPU EIR, the Addendum, and any other documents and materials that constitute <br />the record of proceedings upon which these findings have been based are on file and <br />available for public review at the Planning Division public counter located at 20 Civic <br />Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701. The custodian of these records is the City Clerk <br />of the City of Santa Ana. <br />Ordinance No. NS-3072 <br />Page 4 of 6 <br />