RES-2022-044 RESOLUTION NO. 2022- 044
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 Amendment 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
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 not 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 from 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 previously-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 independent review and consideration of the Ninth
Addendum to previously-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, including 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.
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THE FOREGOING RESOLUTION is approved and adopted by the City Council
of the City of Anaheim this 17`h day of May, 2022, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Mayor Pro Tern O'Neil and Council Members Diaz,
Ma' ae, Moreno, Valencia, and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSENT: Mayor Sidhu
ABSTAIN: None
CITY OF ANAHEIM
By
MAY0I6F THE CIT NAHEI
PRO TEM
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CITY CL RK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
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CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF ANAHEIM
I, THERESA BASS, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the
original Resolution No. 2022-044 adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the Anaheim
City Council held on the 17th day of May 2022 by the following vote of the members thereof:
AYES: Mayor Pro Tern O'Neil and Council Members Diaz, Ma'ae, Moreno. Valencia.
and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: Mayor Sidhu
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 18th day of May, 2022.
CITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)