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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 WHEREAS, pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") (Public Res. Code, §§ 21000 et seq.), the State CEQA Guidelines (14 CCR §§ 15000 et seq.) and the City's Local CEQA Guidelines, the City of Colton is the lead agency for the Project, as the public agency with the principal responsibility for approving the Proj ect; and WHEREAS, The City of Colton prepared and circulated a Notice of Preparation (NOP) of a PEIR for the proj ect on October 9, 2007. The NOP review period began on October 9, 2007 and ended on November 8. 2007. The NOP was distributed to responsible and interested agencies and organizations and the State Clearinghouse. A Public Notice of the Scoping Meeting was published in the a newspaper of general circulation on October 9, 2007; and WHEREAS, In response to the NOP, seven letters commenting on the proposed project were received. Comments received were general in nature and applicable to future SBVEZ-related and facilitated site specific projects; and WHEREAS, A Scoping Meeting was held on October 29, 2007 at the Hutton Center in Colton and no members of the public attended the scoping meeting; and WHEREAS, Pursuant to Public Resources Code section 21092.5, the City provided a Notice of Public Hearing and/or Intent to Certify an Environmental Impact Report to all organizations and individuals who had previously requested such notice, and published the Notice of Public Hearing on November 12, 2007 in a newspaper of general circulation in the project area; and WHEREAS, all potential significant adverse environmental impacts of the Project were sufficiently analyzed in the Program EIR; and WHEREAS, as contained herein, the City has endeavored in good faith to set forth the basis for its decision on the Project; and WHEREAS, all the requirements of CEQA, the State CEQA Guidelines, and the City's Local Guidelines have been satisfied by the City in the Program EIR, which is sufficiently detailed so that all of the potentially significant environmental effects of the Project have been adequately evaluated; and WHEREAS, the Program EIR prepared in connection with the Project sufficiently analyzes both the feasible mitigation measures necessary to avoid or substantially lessen the Project's potential environmental impacts and a range of feasible alternatives capable of eliminating or reducing these effects in accordance with CEQA, the State CEQA Guidelines, and the City's Local Guidelines; and WHEREAS, all of the findings and conclusions made by the City pursuant to this Resolution are based upon all oral and written evidence presented to it as a whole and are not based solely on the information provided in this Resolution; and 2