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Exhibit A FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO THE CERTIFICATION OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE CITY OF PLEASANTON'S JOHNSON DRIVE ECONOMIC DRIVE ZONE (AND RELATED GENERAL PLAN LAND USE AMENDMENTS AND REZONINGS) 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 proposed Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone and associated 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 SEIR 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 the environmental document, 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. A. Organization/Format of Findings Section I.0 of these findings contains a summary description of the proposed Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone, sets forth the objectives of the proposed Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone, and provides related background facts. Section I.D describes the record of proceedings associated with the proposed Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone. Section LE summarizes the City of Pleasanton's (City's) environmental review of the proposed Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone. Section I.I summarizes and makes findings regarding the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone's 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 Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone'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 Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone'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 makes findings regarding the alternatives to the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone analyzed in the SEIR. Section I.M discusses and makes findings regarding the growth -inducing effects of the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone. Section II contains a description of the significant and unavoidable environmental impacts of the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone and the City's statement of overriding considerations and related findings demonstrating why the Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone's benefits outweigh its significant and unavoidable impacts and thus render them acceptable. 3