RESOLUTION NO. 2022-______
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM APPROVING ADDENDUM NO. 9 TO THE
REVISED PLATINUM TRIANGLE EXPANSION PROJECT
FINAL SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
REPORT NO. 339 AND THE UPDATED AND MODIFIED
MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PLAN NO.
106C FOR THE ORANGEWOOD AVENUE
IMPROVEMENTS FROM THE SANTA ANA RIVER TO
THE EAST OF SR -57 PROJECT AND DETERMINING ITS
ADEQUACY TO SERVE AS THE REQUIRED
ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTATION FOR THE
PROPOSED PROJECT
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim ("Anaheim") proposes to improve the segment of Orangewood Avenue from the Santa Ana River to the east of SR-57 (the "Project"); and
WHEREAS, the purpose of the proposed improvements is to more effectively accommodate existing and future traffic volumes along Orangewood Avenue , bring it into compliance with the City's Platinum Triangle Implementation Plan Update #4 for Public Works Backbone Facilities Improvements and the County of Orange Master Plan of Arterial Highways, enhances the corridors’ aesthetics, and improve vehicular safety; and
WHEREAS, Anaheim is the lead agency for the preparation and consideration of environmental documents for the Project, as defined in the California Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended ("CEQA") and the State of California Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act ("State Guidelines"); and
WHEREAS, On October 26, 2010, the Anaheim City Council certified Final Subsequent Environmental Impact Report No. 339, adopting a Statement of Findings of Fact, a Statement of Overriding Considerations (“FSEIR No. 339”) to provide for the implementation of The Revised Platinum Triangle Expansion Project, and in conjunction with its consideration and approval of General Plan Amendmen t No. 2008 -00471, amendments to the Platinum Triangle Mixed Use Overlay Zone, Zoning Reclassification No. 2008 -00222 and a series of related actions; and
WHEREAS, since approval of the FSEIR No. 339, eight addenda to FSEIR No. 339 have been prepared related to various projects developed since adoption of FSEIR No. 339 and
WHEREAS, based upon the analysis included in the attached EIR Addendum No. 9, prepared in connection with the Project, together with the Updated and Modified Mitigation
2 Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 106C , the City has concluded that the Project will not result in new significant impacts or substantial increases in the severity of previously identified significant impacts and no supplemental or subsequent environmental review is required; and
WHEREAS, the Addendum No. 9 addresses the environmental effects associated only with the changes in environmental setting or circumstances since certification of the FSEIR No. 339 and the conclusions of the analysis in the Addendum are no t substantially different from those made in the FSEIR No. 339 and the same unavoidable significant impacts identified in the FSEIR No. 339 remain and no new significant impacts will result and no substantial increase in severity of impacts will result fro m those previously identified in the FSEIR No. 339
WHEREAS, the City of Anaheim desires and intends to use previously -certified FSEIR No. 339 and the Ninth Addendum to FSEIR No. 339 prepared in connection with said Project, together with the Updated and Modified Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 106C, as the environmental documentation required by CEQA and the State CEQA Guidelines for each of the above-referenced Discretionary Actions to the extent authorized by law; and
WHEREAS, said prev iously-certified FSEIR No. 339 and the Ninth Addendum, together with the Updated and Modified Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 106C , has been presented to the City Council of the City of Anaheim for review and consideration prior to the final approval of, and commitment to, said Project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Anaheim, pursuant to the provisions of CEQA, that the City Council, as lead agency for the Project, finds and declares, based upon its indepe ndent review and consideration of the Ninth Addendum to pr eviously-certified FSEIR No. 339 prepared in connection with the Project, together with the Updated and Modified Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 106C , and the requirements of CEQA, incl uding Section 21166 of the California Public Resources Code and Section 15162 of the CEQA Guidelines , that previously-certified FSEIR No. 339 and the Ninth Addendum to FSEIR No. 339 , together with the Updated and Modified Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 106C , are adequate to serve as the required environmental documentation for said Project and satisfy all of the requirements of CEQA, and that no further environmental documentation need be prepared for said Project.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Anaheim, that staff is hereby directed to file a notice of determination with the County of Orange within five working days of the adoption of this Resolution.
3 THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 17th day of May, 2022, by the following roll call vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
CITY OF ANAHEIM
By _________________________________
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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