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WHEREAS, pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15086, the City consulted with and requested comments from all responsible and trustee agencies, other regulatory agencies, and others during the 45 -day comment period, which ran through December 17, 2012; and WHEREAS, during the 45 -day public review period, the City held a regularly scheduled public hearing on November 13, 2012, to receive comments regarding the Draft EIR; and WHEREAS, the City received 26 written comment letters during the second public review period for the Draft EIR; and WHEREAS, the City has prepared a Final EIR, consisting of comments received during both 45 -day public review and comment periods on the Draft EIR, written responses to those comments, and revisions and errata to the Draft EIR. For the purposes of this Resolution, the "EIR" shall refer to the Draft EIR, including all of the technical studies and appendices to the Draft EIR, as revised by the Final EIR's errata section, together with the other sections of the Final EIR, including all of the technical studies, attachments and appendices to the Final EIR; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana held a duly noticed public hearing on February 10, 2014, and voted to recommend that the City Council: (1) Adopt a resolution certifying Final Environmental Impact Report No. 2011 -01 and approve the mitigation monitoring program for the proposed Project; (2) Adopt a resolution approving Variance No. 2012 -04(a) for the Project as conditioned; (3) Adopt a resolution approving Variance No. 2012 -04(b) to allow a reduction in the minimum lot frontage as conditioned; and (4) Adopt a resolution approving Vesting Tentative Tract Map No. 2012 -02 (County Map No. 17231) as conditioned; and WHEREAS, on or about March 4, 2014, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing and at that time considered all testimony, written and oral, and approved Resolution No. 2014 -009, certifying the EIR and approving the Project; and WHEREAS, the findings of fact attached to this resolution reflect the addition of an alternative analysis, the Historic Preservation Analysis, to reflect the City Council's adoption of this alternative as the environmentally superior preferred alternative; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana held another duly noticed public hearing on September 2, 2014, to consider this updated Resolution certifying the FEIR (which attaches and incorporates by reference the findings), and the re- adoption of the underlying resolution for the entitlements for the proposed Project, i.e., the approval of two variances and approving a vesting tentative tract map; and WHEREAS, at its duly noticed public hearing on September 2, 2014, the City Council considered all testimony, written and oral, submitted on the proposed Project and this Resolution; and Resolution 758 -537 No. age 3 of 11