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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 expansion of industrial property, improves functionality and vehicle -trip efficiency and promotes aesthetically pleasing industrial development. Allowing this existing 1,950 -ton per day facility the flexibility to handle both types of waste - mixed solid waste and recyclables - furthers these important General and Specific Plan goals. E. The Application promotes an appropriate distribution, location, extent and intensity of major components of public and private transportation, sewage, drainage, solid waste disposal, energy and other essential facilities in the Specific Plan area. Approval of the Application provides additional business and industrial opportunities for materials recovery and transfer facilities in closer proximity to the City of Colton to assist the City in meeting its AB 939 obligations. SECTION 3. Based on the entire record before the City Council and all written and oral evidence presented, the City Council finds that the Application complies with the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") and the CEQA Guidelines. The City Council hereby adopts the Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program shown on the attached Exhibit "B" based on the following findings: A. The mitigated negative declaration and initial study prepared for the Application contain a complete and accurate reporting of the environmental impacts associated with the Application. The documents have been prepared and completed in compliance with CEQA, the City's Local CEQA Guidelines and the State CEQA Guidelines. Further, as approving body for the Application, the City Council reviewed and considered the information contained in the initial study, mitigated negative declaration, the comments thereto, the response to comments and the administrative record prior to approving the Application. B. All environmental impacts of the Application are insignificant and/or will be mitigated to a level of insignificance. The only potentially significant impact found by the inclusion of a materials recovery and transfer facility that accepts mixed municipal solid waste is the possible introduction of new odors. However, the mitigation measures recommended by the CEQA document will ensure that offensive odors do not have the potential to leave the site and affect a substantial number of persons. Thus, there is no substantial evidence in the record supporting a fair argument that the Application will result in significant impacts. C. There is no evidence before the City of Colton that the proposed Application will have any potentially adverse environmental impacts, either individually or cumulatively, on the following: (1) riparian land, rivers, streams watercourses and wetlands; (2) native and non-native plant life and the soil required to sustain habitat for fish orwildlife; (3) rare and unique plant life and ecological communities dependent on plant life; (4) listed threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitat in which they are believed to reside; (5) all species listed as protected or RVPLTB\MXM\656971 El