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Chapter 4 Findings on the Settlement Agreement and the Revised Station District Project payment of fees associated with nomination of homes to the CRHR or SARHP and the Mills Act Property Tax Abatement Program. • Architectural Salvage. The Agency will retain a qualified contractor to conduct salvage prior to demolition of any residential structures that will be demolished as part of the Revised Station District Project. • Miscellaneous. The Agency will also make one property, 611 Minter Court, available for sale and relocation prior to its demolition, and for eighteen (18) months, the Agency will notify petitioners "Friends of Lacy" of the Agency's intended demolition of properties for redevelopment in the Lacy Neighborhood, other than those properties that would be demolished pursuant to the Revised Station District Project. 4.5 FINDING ON REVISED STATION DISTRICT PROJECT Finding. The Agency hereby finds that the Station District Project, as revised, is feasible and will not result in any substantial changes to the Station District Project or the circumstances under which the Station District Project is undertaken that would require any major revisions in the Final EIR, and there is no new information with respect to the Project that would require such revisions. Rationale. The revisions to the Station District Project do not involve any new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of previously identified significant effects. Specifically, the primary change in the project is the reduction in the number of residential properties that will be demolished, from as many as eighteen (18) under the previously approved project to 8 under the Revised Station District Project. This change reduces the number of demolitions by ten (10) and, therefore, reduces the significant impact identified in the Final EIR to historical resources. There are no other changes to the project that have any potential to result in any increased direct, indirect or cumulative environmental impacts. 4.6 FINDINGS ON OTHER SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT TERMS Finding. The Agency hereby finds that the terms of the Settlement Agreement do not require revisions to the Final EIR or further environmental analysis because the terms do not involve new significant environmental impacts or a substantial increase in the severity of an impact, and/or have no potential to result in a direct or indirect physical change in the environment, and/or are otherwise exempt from CEQA. Rationale. The preparation of an historic survey is exempt from CEQA under CEQA Guidelines ? 15306, which exempts "information collection." Because the Historic Survey would simply evaluate existing resources and would not result in any disturbance of environmental resources, it is exempt from CEQA review. Establishment of the Lacy Neighborhood Housing Fund is similarly exempt from CEQA because any improvements that would result from use of the fund would consist of repair, maintenance or minor alterations of private structures involving negligible or no expansion of the existing use. Therefore, establishment of the fund is exempt under CEQA Guidelines ? 15301 (Existing Facilities). Further, any rehabilitation of homes consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards Transit Zoning Code (SD 84) EIR Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations 4-3