RES-2018-041RESOLUTION NO. 2018- 041
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF ANAHEIM APPROVING ADDENDUM NO. 8 TO THE
REVISED PLATINUM TRIANGLE EXPANSION PROJECT
FINAL SUBSEQUENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
REPORT NO. 339 AND THE MITIGATION MONITORING
AND REPORTING PLAN NO. 353 FOR THE
ORANGEWOOD AVENUE IMPROVEMENTS 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 State College Boulevard to the Santa Ana River (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, seven 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.
8, prepared in connection with the Project, together with the Mitigation Monitoring and
Reporting Plan No. 353, 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. 8 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 Eighth Addendum to FSEIR No. 339 prepared in connection with said
Project, together with the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 353, 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 Eighth Addendum,
together with the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 353, 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 Eighth
Addendum to previously -certified FSEIR No. 339 prepared in connection with the Project,
together with the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 353, and the requirements of
CEQA, including Section 21166 of the California Public Resources Code and Section 15162 of
the CEQA Guidelines, and the evidence received at the public hearing, that previously -certified
FSEIR No. 339 and the Eighth Addendum to FSEIR No. 339, together with the Mitigation
Monitoring and Reporting Plan No. 353, 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 10'1' day of April, 2018, by the following roll call vote:
AYES:Mayor Tait and Council Members Moreno, Murray, Vanderbilt,
Barnes, Kring, and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
CITY OF ANAHEIM
By
MAYOR OF THE CI Y OF ANAHEIM
ATTEST:
CLERK 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, Acting City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is the original Resolution No. 2018-041 adopted at a regular meeting provided by law, of the
Anaheim City Council held on the 10t"day of April, 2018 by the following vote of the members
thereof:
AYES: Mayor Tait and Council Members Moreno, Murray, Vanderbilt, Barnes,
Kring, and Faessel
NOES: None
ABSTAIN: None
ABSENT: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 10th day of April, 2018.
ACTING CITY CL RK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM
(SEAL)