Item 22 - Transit Zoning Code Amendments Resolution

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Furthermore, when taking subsequent discretionary actions in furtherance of a project for which an EIR has been certified, the City is required to review any changed circumstances under Public Resources Code Section 21166 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 to determine whether additional environmental review is required. Based on the substantial evidence set forth in the administrative record, including but not limited to the Transit Zoning Code EIR and the Addendum, the City Council finds that none of the conditions under CEQA Guidelines Section 15162 requiring subsequent environmental review have occurred because the proposed ordinances: a) do not constitute substantial changes that would require major revisions to the Transit Zoning Code EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified effects; and b) do not constitute substantial changes with respect to the circumstances under which the project was developed that would require major revisions of the Transit Zoning Code EIR due to the involvement of new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of the previously identified significant effects; and c) do not present new information of substantial importance that was not known and could not have been known with the exercise of reasonable diligence at the time the Transit Zoning Code was certified, showing any of the following: (i) that the project would have one or more significant effects not discussed in the earlier environmental documentation; (ii) that significant effects previously examined would be substantially more severe than shown in the earlier environmental documentation; (iii) that mitigation measures or alternatives previously found not to be feasible would in fact be feasible and would substantially reduce one or more significant effects, but the applicant declined to adopt such measures; or (iv) that mitigation measures or alternatives considerably different from those previously analyzed would substantially reduce one or more significant effects on the environment, but which the applicant declined to adopt. Pursuant to CEQA and CEQA Guidelines, the City Council hereby adopts the foregoing findings and adopts the Addendum attached as Exhibit 1. City Council further directs City staff to cause a Notice of Determination to be filed and posted with the County of Orange Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk and the State Clearinghouse within five working days of the City Council's adoption of this Resolution. Section 3. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption. Section 4. The documents and materials associated with this Resolution that constitute the record of proceedings on which these findings are based are located at Santa Ana City Hall, 20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701. The