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mitigation measures have been adopted as part of or imposed upon the Project. The imposition of these measures will reduce the identified impacts, but not to a less-than-significant level. The City Council finds that it is not feasible to fully mitigate these Project impacts. The City Council has also considered all potentially feasible alternatives to the Project. The City Council finds that there are no feasible alternatives that would reduce the above significant and unavoidable impacts to a less-than-significant level. The Project's impacts discussed above therefore remain significant and unavoidable. C. Overriding Considerations After review of the entire administrative record, including, but not limited to, the Final SEIR, the staff report, and the oral and written testimony and evidence presented at public hearings, the City Council finds that specific economic, legal, social, technological and other anticipated benefits of the Project outweigh the significant and unavoidable impacts, and therefore justify the approval of this Project notwithstanding the identified significant and unavoidable impacts. (Pub. Resources Code, § 21081; CEQA Guidelines, § 15093.) The benefits are addressed in detail in Section II.D below. The City Council specifically adopts and makes this Statement of Overriding Considerations that this Project has eliminated or substantially lessened all significant effects on the environment where feasible (including the incorporation of feasible mitigation measures), and finds that the remaining significant unavoidable impacts of the Project, which are described above in Section II.A, are acceptable because the benefits of the Project set forth below in Section II.D outweigh them. The City Council finds that each of the overriding considerations expressed as benefits and set forth below in Section II.D constitutes a separate and independent ground for such a finding. Any one of the reasons for approval cited below is sufficient to justify approval of the Project. Thus, even if a court were to conclude that not every reason is supported by substantial evidence, the City Council will stand by its determination that each individual reason is sufficient by itself. The substantial evidence supporting the various benefits can be found in the preceding findings, which are incorporated by reference into this Section II, and in the documents found in the Record of Proceedings, as defined in Section I.D. D. Benefits of the Project The City Council has considered the SEIR, the public record of proceedings on the proposed Project and other written materials presented to and prepared by the City, as well as oral and written testimony received, and does hereby determine that implementation of the Project as specifically provided in the Project documents would result in the following substantial public benefits: 1. The Project Would Enable the City to Meet its Regional Housing Needs Obligation The Housing Element and its associated General Plan amendments and rezonings provide sites that can be developed for a minimum of 2,088 residential units at a minimum density of 30 units per acre, the density at which the State of California considers to be appropriate for providing housing affordable to households with very low and low incomes. When combined with the 350 units associated with the previously approved Windstar project