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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCity Council - 2008-06 RESOLUTION NO. 2008-06 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH, CERTIFYING THE FINAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT (SCH#2007041027) FOR THE HUNTINGTON BEACH SENIOR CENTER PROJECT WHEREAS, Environmental Impact Report No. 07-002, State Clearinghouse #2007041027, ("EIR") was prepared by the City of Huntington Beach ("City") to address the environmental implications of the proposed Huntington Beach Senior Center Project (the "Project"). • On April 2, 2007, a Notice of Preparation/Initial Study for the Project was prepared and distributed to the State Clearinghouse, other responsible agencies, trustee agencies and interested parties. • After obtaining comments received in response to the Notice of Preparation, and comments received at the public scoping meeting held on April 19, 2007, the City completed preparation of the Draft EIR and filed a Notice of Completion with the State Clearinghouse on September 13, 2007. • The Draft EIR was circulated for public review and comment from September 17, 2007 to October 31, 2007 and was available for review at several locations including City Hall, the Huntington Beach Public Library, and the City's website; and Public comments have been received on the Draft EIR, and responses to those comments have been prepared and provided to the City Council as a section within a separately bound document entitled "Final Environmental Impact Report Huntington Beach Senior Center" (the "Responses to Comments"), dated December 2007; and Public Resources Code Section 21092.5(a) requires that the City of Huntington Beach provide a written proposed response to any public agency that commented on the Environmental Impact Report, and the Response to Comments included in the Final Environmental Impact Report satisfies this provision; and The City Council held a public meeting on the EIR on February 4, 2008, and received and considered public testimony. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach as follows: SECTION 1. Consistent with the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") Guidelines Section 15132, the Final EIR for the Project is comprised of the Draft EIR and Appendices, the comments received on the Draft EIR, the Responses to Comments (including a list of persons, organizations, and public agencies commenting on the Draft EIR), the Text Changes to the Draft EIR (bound together with the Responses to Comments) and all Planning Department Staff Reports to the Planning Commission and City Council, including all minutes, transcripts, attachments and references. All of the above information has been and will be on file 17959 1 Resolution No. 2008-06 with the City of Huntington Beach Department of Planning, 2000 Main Street, Huntington Beach, California 92648. SECTION 2. The City Council finds and certifies that the Final EIR is complete and adequate in that it has identified all significant environmental effects of the Project and that there are no known potential environmental impacts not addressed in the Final EIR. SECTION 3. The City Council finds that although the Final EIR identifies certain significant environmental effects that will result if the Project is approved, all significant effects which can feasibly be mitigated or avoided have been mitigated or avoided by the incorporation of Project design features, standard conditions and requirements, and by the imposition of mitigation measures on the approved Project. SECTION 4. The City Council finds that the Final EIR has described reasonable alternatives to the Project that could feasibly obtain the basic objectives of the Project (including the "No Project" Alternative), even when these alternatives might impede the attainment of Project objectives and might be more costly. Further, the City Council finds that a good faith effort was made to incorporate alternatives in the preparation of the Draft EIR and that a reasonable range of alternatives was considered in the review process of the Final EIR and ultimate decisions on the Project. SECTION 5. The City Council finds that no "substantial evidence" (as that term is defined pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15384) has been presented which would call into question the facts and conclusions in the EIR. SECTION 6. The City Council finds that no "significant new information" (as that term is defined pursuant to CEQA Guidelines Section 15088.5) has been added to the EIR after circulation of the Draft EIR. The City Council finds that the minor refinements that have been made in the Project as a result of clarifications in the mitigation measures and additional air quality modeling and traffic analyses (relating to trip generation rates) do not amount to significant new information concerning the Project, nor has any significant new information concerning the Project become known to the City Council through the public hearings held on the Project, or through the comments on the Draft EIR and Responses to Comments. SECTION 7. The City Council finds that the Mitigation Monitoring Program establishes a mechanism and procedures for implementing and verifying the mitigations pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21081.6 and hereby adopts the Mitigation Monitoring Program. The mitigation measures shall be incorporated into the Project prior to or concurrent with Project implementation as defined in each mitigation measure. SECTION 8. The City Council finds that the Final EIR reflects the independent review and judgment of the City of Huntington Beach City Council, that the Final EIR was presented to the city Council, and that the City Council reviewed and considered the information contained in the Final EIR prior to approving Conditional Use Permit No. 07-039. SECTION 9. The City Council finds that the Final EIR serves as adequate and appropriate environmental documentation for the Project. The City Council certifies that the 17959 2 Resolution No. 2008-06 Final EIR prepared for the Project is complete, and that it has been prepared in compliance with the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act and CEQA Guidelines. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach at a regular meeting thereof held on the 4th day of February , 2008. 9 xa4& Mayor REVIE E ND PROVED: INITIA D AN APPROVED: City Administrator Direc or of P arming APPROVED AS TO FORM: c� t Attorn l 2� 17959 3 Res. No. 2008-06 STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss: CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH ) I, JOAN L. FLYNN the duly elected, qualified City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach, and ex-officio Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach is seven; that the foregoing resolution was passed and adopted by the affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of said City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on February 4, 2008 by the following vote: AYES: Hansen, Bohr, Coerper, Green, Carchio NOES: Hardy, Cook ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None 42<J42W! Cit Jerk and ex-officio rk of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach, California