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affects the ability of agencies to provide needed public services, or if it can be demonstrated that the potential growth could significantly affect the environment in some other way. Chapter 6, Section A of the EIR provides an analysis of growth inducement effects of the proposed project, as required by CEQA Guidelines section 15126.2(d). By its very nature, a Housing Element is intended to be growth inducing. Based on Government Code section 65300, a Housing Element is intended to provide plans and programs to meet identified housing needs, including facilitating new residential development to meet the City's share of projected regional housing needs for all economic segments of the community. While a Housing Element does not propose any specific residential development projects, it does facilitate future population growth of the city that would result in indirect growth-inducing effects. By adopting a Housing Element, a city is setting the ground rules for future residential growth and development within its jurisdiction. Accordingly, the City Council finds that the Project, specifically the Housing Element component thereof, would indirectly facilitate population growth in relation to the future residential development of the proposed rezoning sites, but that all but two of the Projects potentially significant adverse environmental impacts will be reduced to levels of insignificance through the imposition of the mitigation measures discussed above and listed in the MMRP, and that the Project's benefits substantially outweigh the two significant and unavoidable impacts as demonstrated below in the Statement of Overriding Considerations. II. STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21081 and CEQA Guidelines Section 15093, the City Council has balanced the economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the Project against the Project's two significant and unavoidable impacts and has adopted all feasible mitigation measures. The City Council has also examined potentially feasible alternatives to the Project, none of which are feasible in that they would provide no significant advantage from an environmental standpoint over the proposed project.. The City Council hereby adopts and makes the following Statement of Overriding Considerations regarding the significant and unavoidable impacts of the Project and the anticipated economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the Project. A. Significant and Unavoidable Impacts Based on information contained in the record and in the SEIR, the City Council has determined that the Project would result in significant and unavoidable impacts to (1) cultural resources due to the possibility of adverse changes to potentially historical resources associated with rezoning sites 6 (ice house and farmhouse) and 21 (residence); and (2) transportation due to the possibility of significant increases in traffic to the regional roadway network under cumulative plus Project conditions. (Draft SEIR, pp. 4.D-15 to 4.D-16; 4.N-30 to 4.N-32.) B. Finding The City Council has considered all potentially feasible mitigation measures to substantially lessen or avoid the Project's significant and unavoidable impacts. Where feasible,