R-124-16 Amend the General Plan Mobility Element regarding San Bernardino Avenue

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2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. The City Council hereby adopts the recitals and findings set forth above and in the agenda report prepared in connection with this Resolution. SECTION 2. General Plan Consistency. Based on the entire record before the City Council and all written and oral evidence presented, including the staff report and the findings made in this Resolution, the City Council hereby finds and determines that the proposed Amendment to the General Plan Mobility Element is consistent with the goals and policies of the City of Colton General Plan and is reasonably related to the public welfare of the citizens of the City and surrounding regions. Specifically, the Major Highway designation of San Bernardino Avenue has been determined to be unnecessary due to long-term and short-term traffic projections and infeasible due to existing development constraints adjacent to the roadway. SECTION 3. The Mobility Element of the General Plan, are hereby amended modifying and adding as shown in the attached pages of the General Plan Mobility Element (Exhibit B.1.) (New Text is shown Double Underline and deleted text is shown in striketlueugh.) SECTION 7. If any sentence, clause or phrase of this Resolution is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such decisions shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this Resolution. SECTION 8. Pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15162(a through d), the General Plan Amendment No. 001-305 are within the scope of the CHCCSP evaluated in Certified Environmental Impact Report, SCH No. 2008041067, which was prepared and certified for the CHCCSP in November 2014, and the subsequent Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration/Mitigation Monitoring Report. The Certified Project EIR adequately describes the CHCCSP circulation issues and potential environmental effects, and the Subsequent Mitigated Negative Declaration further supports the findings of the Project EIR specific to the northwest quadrant of the CHCCSP project area regarding potential environmental effects, and mitigation measures that can reduce these effects to less than significant levels. SECTION 9. Certification/Publication. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of the Resolution and cause the same or a summary thereof to be published within fifteen (15) days after adoption in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of Colton. 22 23 // 24 // 25 // 26 27 28 -2-