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Vice Mayor Hartnett requested that the City Attorney discuss CEQA guidelines. City Attorney Schricker recommended that the City stick with the CEQA guidelines, think in terms of alternative uses, cumulative effects of the project, the specific analysis relating to the kind of things that can or cannot be mitigated, and by referring to the impact analysis. Vice Mayor Hartnett stated that the impact analysis and some of the cases cited by the appellant are about environmental impacts of the. project itself. Much of the discussion has not been about the environmental impact of the project but on the incompatible land uses. It makes it difficult to separate the issues. City Attorney Schricker referred to the state CEQA guidelines for guidance. City Attorney Schricker stated that the law requires that the EIR identify adjoining land issues but it does not require that the EIR to solve the problems created by the land use. Actually the EIR does not have to address the assessment district but what the EIR must say is can the traffic impact be mitigated and what measures can be taken to mitigate the impact, whether those are feasibility measures is to be determined. Vice Mayor Hartnett discussed the issue of the traffic count and how to decide if there is sufficient information to uphold the adequacy of the EIR. The Supreme Court case cited refers to CEQA guidelines. The decision making body is given flexibility in review of the information. The traffic counts provide relevant information from which inferences can be made about safety. City Attorney Schricker stated that an EIR should be analytic rather than encyclopedic and should emphasize portions useful to decision makers and the public. An EIR is an informational document designed to convey detailed information to public agencies and the public in general. Vice Mayor Hartnett discussed concerns regarding complying with technical issues to make sure there is an adequate EIR. The technical issue regarding alternative site analysis specifically the analysis of other locations. The Sedway study is a good analysis of off site locations but it is not well described in the body of the EIR. The Sedway study is incorporated by reference but after reading the cases it might be better to have more of the study described in the EIR. By including the executive summary of the study in the body of the EIR it may take care of any technical issues. City Attorney Schricker stated that reference in the EIR report is found is section 4.7 on page 4-15 of the final EIR. The CEQA guidelines state than an EIR may incorporate by reference all or portions of another document which is a matter of public record or is generally available to the public. Where all or part of another document is incorporated by reference the incorporated language shall be considered to be set forth in full as part of the text of the EIR. It is up to the Council whether section Regular Meeting Minutes MINUTE BOOK NO. 53 May 8, 1995 Page 10 Page No. 169 ---...--.