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EXHIBIT A Resolution No. 12-492 FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO THE CERTIFICATION OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE CITY OF PLEASANTON'S HOUSING ELEMENT UPDATE (AND RELATED LAND USE AMENDMENTS AND REZONINGS) AND CLIMATE ACTION PLAN I. STATEMENT OF FINDINGS The findings and determinations contained herein are based on the competent and substantial evidence, both oral and written, contained in the entire record relating to the Project and the Supplemental EIR ("SEIR"). The findings and determinations constitute the independent findings and determinations by this City Council in all respects and are fully and completely supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole. Although the findings below identify specific pages within the Draft and Final SEIRs in support of various conclusions reached below, the City Council agrees with, and thus incorporates by reference and adopts as its own, the reasoning set forth in both environmental documents, and thus relies on that reasoning, even where not specifically mentioned or cited below, in reaching the conclusions set forth below, except where additional evidence is specifically mentioned. This is especially true with respect to the City Council's approval of all mitigation measures recommended in the Final SEIR, and the reasoning set forth in responses to comments in the Final SEIR. The City Council further intends that if these findings fail to cross-reference or incorporate by reference any other part of these findings, any finding required or permitted to be made by this City Council with respect to any particular subject matter of the Project must be deemed made if it appears in any portion of these findings or findings elsewhere in the record. A. Organization/Format of Findings Section I.0 of these findings contains a summary description of the proposed project, sets forth the objectives of the proposed project, and provides related background facts. Section I.D describes the record of proceedings associated with the proposed project. Section I.E summarizes the City's environmental review of the proposed project. Section 1.1 summarizes and makes findings regarding the Projects potential impacts that do not require mitigation measures due to the determination that the impacts would be less than significant. Section I.J describes and makes findings regarding the Project's potentially significant adverse environmental impacts and the mitigation measures that will be imposed to ensure that those impacts would be less than significant. Section I.K describes and makes findings regarding the Project's significant and unavoidable impacts and the mitigation measures that will be imposed to reduce those impacts to the extent feasible. Section I.L discusses and the makes findings regarding the project alternatives analyzed in the SEIR. Section I.M discusses and makes findings regarding the Project's growth inducing effects. Section II contains a description of the Project's significant and unavoidable impacts and the City's statement of overriding considerations and related findings demonstrating why the Project's benefits outweigh its significant and unavoidable impacts and thus render them acceptable.