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<br />ATTY/RESO.3157/601 Marshall Appeal 8-Story Project <br />REV: 11/10/15 VR <br />Page 5 of 22 <br />the staff reports and attachments prepared for the Planning Commission hearing on the <br />project and the appeal, each of which is incorporated herein by reference and which <br />serve as an adequate and appropriate evidentiary basis for the findings and actions set <br />forth in this Resolution. <br /> <br />Section 2. Initial Study Checklist (IS): In the exercise of its independent <br />judgment, the City Council finds that: <br /> <br />a. The IS was prepared in accordance with all legal requirements. <br /> <br />b. The City Council has reviewed and analyzed the IS and other <br />information in the entire record and has considered the information <br />contained therein, including the written and oral comments <br />received at the public hearing on the Project, prior to acting upon <br />or approving the Project. <br /> <br />c. Based on substantial evidence in the record, the proposed <br />Project is within the scope of the previously approved Downtown <br />Precise Plan and is adequately described in the previously <br />certified Downtown Precise Plan Program EIR for purposes of <br />CEQA. The mitigation measures and Statement of Overriding <br />Considerations associated with certification of the Program EIR <br />address the environmental effects of the Project. Accordingly, <br />with the approval of this Project, all applicable mitigation <br />measures and the Statement of Overriding Considerations are <br />hereby reconfirmed and readopted. <br /> <br />d. As set forth in CEQA Guidelines sections 15162, 15163 and 15168, <br />the proposed project will not result in any new or more significant <br />environmental effects or require new mitigation measures beyond <br />those identified in the Downtown Precise Plan Program EIR and <br />adopted upon approval of the Downtown Precise Plan. No new <br />environmental document is required. <br /> <br />e. As set forth in CEQA Guidelines section 15183, subdivisions (a) <br />and (b), the proposed project is consistent with the Downtown <br />Precise Plan (for which the EIR was certified on January 24, 2011) <br />which provides the necessary zoning to accommodate the <br />proposed development density. Further, as discussed in the IS <br />Checklist, there are no environmental effects which are peculiar to <br />the project or its site, nor are there any new significant effects that <br />were not already identified and analyzed in the certified EIR, nor <br />are there any potentially significant off-site impacts or cumulative <br />impacts that were not already identified and analyzed in the <br />7.C. - Page 17