Item 28 - Public Hearing - Amendment Application for the Village Santa Ana Specific Plan

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1 INTRODUCTION The Supplemental EIR for the Project is composed of the following elements: • The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Project Draft Supplemental EIR and Technical Appendices (April 2025); • The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Project Final Supplemental EIR (August 2025); and • Santa Ana General Plan Update Program Environmental Impact Report (GPU PEIR), SCH No. 2020029087. 1.2 DOCUMENT FORMAT The Findings of Fact is organized into the following sections Chapter 1: Introduction outlines the organization of this document and identifies the location and custodian of the record of proceedings. Chapter 2: Project Summary provides a summary of the Project, overview of the discretionary actions required for approval of the Project, and a statement of the Project's objectives. Chapter 3: Environmental Review and Public Participation Process provides a summary of previous environmental reviews related to the Project area that took place prior to the environmental review done specifically for the Project, and a summary of public participation in the environmental review for the Project. Chapter 4: No Environmental Effects and Less Than Significant Environmental Effects without Mitigation Measure presents a summary of those environmental issue areas where no impacts or less than significant impacts would occur and a corresponding finding adopting the Initial Study and PEIR's conclusions of no impact or less than significant impacts. Chapter 5: Less Than Significant Environmental Effects with Mitigation Incorporated presents a summary of potentially significant environmental effects for which implementation of identified feasible mitigation measures would avoid or substantially reduce the environmental effects to less -than -significant levels and provides a corresponding finding for each effect. In order to ensure compliance and implementation, all of these measures are included in the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) for the Project and adopted as conditions of the Project by the Lead Agency. Chapter 6: Significant and Unavoidable Environmental Effects presents a summary of significant and unavoidable effects for which there are no known feasible mitigation measures that would avoid or substantially reduce the environmental effects to less -than -significant levels and provides a corresponding finding for each effect. Chapter 7: Findings Regarding Significant Irreversible Environmental Changes presents a summary of the significant irreversible environmental changes that would occur should the Project be implemented. Chapter 8: Findings Regarding Growth -Inducing Impacts presents a summary of the growth - inducing effects considered for the Project. Chapter 9: Findings Regarding Project Alternatives presents a summary of the alternatives considered for the proposed Project. City of Santa Ana The Village Santa Ana Specific Plan Project August 2025 CEQA Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations iWA