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EXHIBIT I - ATTACHMENT 2 EXHIBIT B CEQA FINDINGS OF FACT AND STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS RELATED TO THE CERTIFICATION OF THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT FOR THE CITY OF PLEASANTON DOWNTOWN SPECIFIC 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 City of Pleasanton Downtown Specific Plan ("the Plan") and the Environmental Impact Report (EIR) (SCH#2001032014)prepared for the Plan. 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.These CEQA findings are Exhibit B and are incorporated by reference into each and every resolution approving the Plan.Exhibit C is the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program(MMRP).All Exhibits are incorporated by reference into each other and into the resolution to which the Exhibit is attached. Although the findings below identify specific pages within the Draft and Final EIRs 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 Draft EIR,and the reasoning set forth in responses to comments in the Final EIR 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 Plan 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 Plan, sets forth the objectives of the Plan,and provides related background facts.Section I.D describes the record of proceedings associated with the Plan. Section I.E summarizes the City's environmental review of the Plan. Section I.I summarizes and makes findings regarding the Plan'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 Plan'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 Plan'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 Plan alternatives analyzed in the Draft EIR. Section II contains a description of the Plan's significant and unavoidable impacts and the City's statement of overriding considerations and related findings demonstrating why the Plan's benefits outweigh its significant and unavoidable impacts and thus render them acceptable. B. Introduction The Draft EIR prepared for the Plan addresses the environmental impacts associated with the adoption and implementation of the City of Pleasanton Downtown Specific Plan. These findings, as well as the accompanying Statement of Overriding Considerations in Section II,have been prepared to comply with 1 e use shall be at least 300 feet from an R or 0 district. Distributed at the May 28,2019, Downtown Specific Plan Update Task Force Meeting and the June 26,2019 Planning Commission Meeting Provided for Reference 54