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12/16/2019 4. Provide year round aquatics with new indoor and outdoor swimming pools, as the City is currently only able to offer seasonal use of an aging center with growing maintenance costs. 5. Enhance the community quality of life by expanding health and wellness opportunities for all ages and enhancing the community's fitness, wellness, and recreation resources. 6. Provide state -of -the art community facility with multiple recreational opportunities for a growing community — both in population and age. 7. Provide a public promenade with flexible outdoor gathering spaces that would provide a gateway to Red Morton Park and link both buildings. 8. Design the new VMSC to meet a minimum of LEED Certification standards. 9. Provide a new public facility that could have the dual purpose of providing an emergency shelter or evacuation center in the event of an emergency. 10. Implement traffic calming measures near Red Morton Community Park to facilitate safer and slower vehicle circulation. The Final EIR also describes the criteria used to identify a range of reasonable alternatives for review in the EIR and describes proposals that the City concluded did not merit additional more detail -oriented review because they did not present viable alternatives to the proposed project. In making these findings, the City Council certifies that it has independently reviewed and considered the information on alternatives provided in the Final EIR including the information provided in comments on the Draft EIR and the responses to those comments in the Final EIR. The Final EIR discussion and analysis of the alternatives in the Final EIR is incorporated in these findings by reference. The City Council may reject the alternative if it is determined that specific considerations make the alternative infeasible. Pursuant to California Public Resources Code Section 21081 and the CEQA Guidelines Section 15091 et seq., the City Council adopts and makes the following findings with respect to the alternatives identified in the Final EIR, as described below. B. Alternatives Considered But Rejected From More Detailed Analysis Section 15126.6(c) of the State CEQA Guidelines specifies that an EIR should (1) identify alternatives that were considered by the lead agency but were eliminated from detailed consideration because they were determined to be infeasible during the scoping process; and (2) briefly explain the reasons underlying the lead agency's determination. Among the factors that may be used to eliminate alternatives from detailed consideration in an EIR are: (i) failure to meet most of the basic project objectives; (ii) infeasibility; and/or (iii) inability to avoid significant environmental impacts. The following alternatives were considered but rejected as part of the environmental analysis for the Project: • Alternative Location: The City considered alternative locations for the proposed project to avoid or lessen the project's air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, noise, and recreation impacts. A feasible alternative location would be of similar size to the project site, within the jurisdictional boundaries of the City, and have the appropriate General Plan land use designation. There are not suitable locations meeting the criteria other than Red Morton Community Park. For these reasons, an alternative location to the project site was considered but rejected as infeasible. • YMCA Alternative Location at Red Morton Community Park: An alternative location for the proposed YMCA elsewhere at Red Morton Community Park was considered in order to avoid the project's ATTY/RESO.0124/CC RESO RECOMMENDING CEQA CERTIFICATION —YMCA RESO. NO. 15813 REV: 12-12-191Y MUFF NO. 601 Page 21 of 44