55A - RESOLUTION CERTIFYING EIR SAN LORENZO SEWER LIFT STATION

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Exhibit 3 ■ ■ SAN LORENZO SEWER LIFT STATION ■ F] ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT S.0 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY considered for certification by the City of Santa Ana City Council in a public hearing(s). The City Council will review and consider the Final EIR prior to deciding to approve, approve with revision, or reject the proposed Project. Approval of the proposed Project would be accompanied by the adoption of written findings and a statement of overriding considerations for any significant unavoidable environmental impacts identified in the Final EIR. In addition, the City must adopt a Mitigation, Monitoring, and Reporting Program (MMRP), which describes the process to ensure implementation of the mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR to reduce or avoid significant impacts on the physical environment. The MMRP, which is included as Table S -1 in this EIR, will ensure CEQA compliance during Project construction and operation. S.4 AREAS OF CONTROVERSY AND ISSUES TO BE RESOLVED CEQA Guidelines Section 15123(b)(2) requires that areas of controversy known to the Lead Agency (City of Santa Ana Public Works Agency, Water Resources Division) be identified in the Executive Summary. The Lead Agency is aware of one issue of controversy: • Opposition of Santa Ana California Lodge, LLC (Studio Inn, APN 410 - 411 -19), to City acquisition of a temporary construction easement affecting their heir property (comprising approximately 465 s.f. in area), and opposition to City acquisition of permanent title to approximately 292 square feet of their private property in order to construct the proposed San Lorenzo Lift Station. Regarding issues to be resolved, this EIR addresses the environmental issues that are known by the City and that are identified in the Initial Study prepared for the Project (refer to Appendix A of this EIR). Four (4) written comment letters were received by the City on this EIR's NOP, copies of which are also included in Appendix A. Environmental topics raised in written comment to the NOP are primarily related to the issue areas of air quality (including odor), noise, traffic, water quality /drainage, and hazardous materials. Refer to Table 1 -2, Summary of NOP Comments, in Section 1.0 of this EIR. S.5 ALTERNATIVES TO THE PROPOSED PROJECT In compliance with CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.6, an EIR must describe a range of reasonable alternatives to the Project or to the location of the Project. Each alternative must be able to feasibly attain most of the Project's objectives and avoid or substantially lessen the Project's significant effects on the environment. A detailed description of each alternative evaluated in this EIR, as well as an analysis of the potential environmental impacts associated with each alternative, is provided in Section 5.0, Alternatives. Also described in Section 5.0 is a list of alternatives that were considered, but rejected from further analysis. The alternatives considered by this EIR include those listed below. S.5.1 NO PROJECT ALTERNATIVE The No Project Alternative is included in the Alternatives analysis as required pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.6(e), which requires evaluation of an alternative that considers what would reasonably be expected to occur on the property in the foreseeable future if the Project were not approved, based on current plans and consistent with available infrastructure and community services. For purposes of analysis in this EIR, the No Project Alternative assumes that the proposed Project would not be approved; meaning that the existing Segerstrom Lift Station facility located beneath South Bristol Street would not be demolished and would continue operating in its existing condition into the foreseeable future. Construction of a new lift PAGE S-6