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e Date: 3 -27 -12 CITY COUNCIL AND Item No.: 19 RIVERSIDE MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENTS CORPORATION MINUTES TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 2012, 3 P.M. ART PICK COUNCIL CHAMBER CITY HALL 3900 MAIN STREET Roll Call In the absence of Mayor Loveridge, Mayor Pro Tern Davis called the meeting to order at 3 p.m. PUBLIC HEARINGS /PLANNING REFERRALS AND APPEALS CASE P10 -0316 - GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT - RESOLUTIONS Hearing was called to consider amendments to the Public Safety Element, the Open Space and Conservation Element, and the Public Facilities and Infrastructure Element of the General Plan 2025 to implement the requirements of California State Assembly Bill 162 (AB 162) and to incorporate technical and clarifying changes to the General Plan 2025 Program. No one spoke on the matter. Two letters were presented and considered. The public hearing was officially closed. Following discussion, the City Council (1) determined that the proposed project will not have a significant effect on the environment based on the findings below and adopted the Third Addendum to the Certified Final Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the General Plan 2025 Program; pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15162: (a) there are no substantial changes to the project that would require major revisions of the Final PEIR for the Program due to new significant environmental effects or a substantial increase in the severity of impacts identified in the Final PEIR; (b) no substantial changes have occurred in the circumstances under which the project is being undertaken that will require major revisions of the Final PEIR to disclose new significant environmental effects or that would result in a substantial increase in the severity of the impacts identified in the Final PEIR; and (c) there is no new information of substantial importance, which was not known at the time that the previous Final PEIR was circulated, indicating that: (i) the proposed General Plan Amendment will not have one or more significant effects not previously discussed in the Final PEIR; (ii) there are no impacts that were determined to be significant in the previous Final PEIR that would be substantially more severe; (iii) there are no additional mitigation measures or alternatives to the project that would substantially reduce one or more of the significant effects identified in the previous Final PEIR; and (iv) there are no additional mitigation measures or alternatives which were rejected by the project proponent that are considerably different from those analyzed in the previous Final PEIR that would substantially reduce any significant impact identified in the Final PEIR; (2) approved Case P10 -0316 based on and subject to the Planning Commission findings as outlined in the written staff report; (3) adopted a resolution amending the General Plan 2025; and (4) adopted a WARDS Present COUNCIL /AGENCY MEMBERS G M B D M H A A E A A A A D R L I V C R A D E L I T M N N E S A S E D Y R R R T E H Z U R onume0 NINNIN 7 X 97 -229