R-100-14 Colton's Hub City Centre Specific Plan (10.7.14)

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City Council Resolution No. R-100-14 October 7, 2014 — Page 2 of 4 1 WHEREAS, the City has prepared a Final EIR, consisting of comments received during 2 the second 45 -day public review and comment period on the revised Draft EIR, written responses to those comments, and revisions and errata to the Draft EIR. For the purposes of this Resolution, 3 the "EIR" shall refer to the Draft FIR, as revised by the Final EIR's errata section, together with the other sections of the Final EIR; and 4 WHEREAS, environmental impacts, including environmental impacts identified in the 5 Final EIR as potentially significant but which the City finds can be substantially lessened through 6 the imposition of feasible mitigation measures identified in the Final EIR and set forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto; and 7 WHEREAS, the specific overriding economic, legal, social, technological or other 8 benefits of the project which outweigh the significant effects on the environment are also set forth in Exhibit A, attached hereto; and 9 10 WHEREAS, the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program sets forth the mitigation measures to which the City shall bind itself in connection with this project and is attached hereto 11 as Exhibit B; and 12 WHEREAS, on August 27, 2014 and September 9, 2014, the Planning Commission conducted a duly noticed public hearing on the project, at which time all persons wishing to 13 testify were heard and the project was fully considered; and 14 WHEREAS, at the close of its September 9, 2014 hearing, the Planning Commission 15 recommended that the City Council certify the EIR for the project, adopt the CEQA Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations, adopt the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting 16 Program, and approve the project; and 17 WHEREAS, on October 7, 2014, the City Council of the City of Colton held a public 18 hearing to discuss the Planning Commission's recommendations and to consider the project, and at such hearing the City Council heard all persons interested in or opposed to the EIR and/or the 19 project; and 20 WHEREAS, as contained herein, the City has endeavored in good faith to set forth the 21 basis for its decision on the project; and 22 WHEREAS, all the requirements of CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines have been satisfied by the City in the EIR, which is sufficiently detailed so that all of the potentially 23 significant environmental effects of the project have been adequately evaluated; and 24 WHEREAS, the FIR prepared in connection with the project sufficiently analyzes both 25 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 26 these effects in accordance with CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines; and 27 WHEREAS, all of the findings and conclusions made by the City Council pursuant to this Resolution are based upon the oral and written evidence presented to it as a whole and not 28 based solely on the information provided in this Resolution; and