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Exhibit A-3 <br />November 19, 2018 <br />Vince C. Fregoso, AICP <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Planning and Building Agency <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, M-20 <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />0- <br />RE Consulting <br />Subject: Augment #3 to the Scope of the Environmental Impact Report for the Magnolia at the Park Multi - <br />Family Residential Project <br />Dear Mr. Fregoso: <br />This request to augment the scope of work for the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) is in response to the volume of <br />Draft EIR comment letters that were received and the work necessary to respond to those comments and prepare the <br />Final EIR for the Magnolia at the Park Multi -Family Residential Project. This includes substantially greater work effort <br />to complete the comment responses and additional tasks that were not previously scoped for, which were undertaken <br />per coordination with, and direction from, City staff. The tasks Included in this augment request are described below. <br />Response to Comments <br />Task 7 of the existing Scope of Work assums that a maximum of 20 comment letters would be received that will <br />require responses of varying detail. It also states that if the public comments on the Draft EIR were greater than <br />expected, the work program/budget will be adjusted as necessary. <br />In response to the Draft EIR, the City received 44 comment letters, many of which were long and contained a <br />substantial volume of comments (several had over 50 comments, a few had over 100 comments, and one letter <br />contained 536 comments). Also, written responses to comments received at the August 27, 2018 Planning <br />Commission Study Session were prepared and included in the Final EIR, Response to Comments Chapter. In <br />addition, the response to comments went through multiple rounds of review and revision (by City staff and City <br />attorneys) and several conference calls were held to discuss the comments received and Draft Final EIR document. <br />This volume and extent of comments and the review and revision cycles were not anticipated by the original scope <br />and budget. <br />Similarly, the cost involved in producing the over 1,000-page hard copies was not anticipated. Due to the length of <br />the comment letters received and the extent of the necessary responses (pursuant to CEQA) the hard copies are <br />much larger, and therefore more -costly to produce. As a result, the reimbursable budget is depleted. Please note that <br />any additional hard copies, beyond the 10 hard copies and 40 CDs already provided, will be billed on a direct cost <br />basis. <br />Population Per Household Methodology Memo <br />In response to a comment, which requested information about the dataset that was used in the population per <br />household memo (Draft EIR Appendix 1), Stanley R. Hoffman Associates was retained to prepare a memo describing <br />the Census data sets and methodology used to conduct the persons per household demographic analysis that was <br />included in the Draft EIR. The Methodology Memo is included as B Appendix of the Final EIR. This augment requests <br />budget to cover the cost of preparing this memo. <br />View Simulations for Final EIR <br />In response to Draft EIR comments related to the aesthetic impacts of alternative types of developments, three visual <br />simulations were prepared for the Final EIR, Response to Comments Chapter. The visual simulations provided views <br />of the project site from Edgewood Street at Bush Street that show conceptual 3-story condominium, 2-3 story <br />