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• Matters of common knowledge to the County, including, but not limited to federal, state, and local laws and regulations; • Any documents expressly cited in these findings, in addition to those cited above; and • Any other materials required for the record of proceedings by Public Resources Code section 21167-6, subdivision(e). The documents constituting the record of proceedings are available for review by responsible agencies and interested members of the public during normal business hours at the County of San Joaquin Community Development Department, 1810 E. Hazelton Avenue, Stockton, CA 95205. The custodian of these documents is the San Joaquin County Community Development Director. The County's decisionmakers have relied on all of the documents listed above in reaching their decisions on the proposed project even if not every document was formally presented to the decisionmakers as part of the County files generated in connection with the proposed project Without exception, any documents set forth above not found in the project files fall into one of two categories. Many of them reflect prior planning or legislative decisions with which County decisionmakers were aware in approving the proposed project. (See City of Santa Cruz v. Local Agency Formation Commission (1978) 76 Ca1.App.3d 381, 391-392; Dominey v. Department of Personnel Administration (1988) 205 Ca1.App.3d 729, 738, fn. 6.) Other documents influenced the expert advice provided to County Staff or consultants, who then provided advice to the final decisionmakers. For that reason, such documents form part of the underlying factual basis for the County's decisions relating to approval of the proposed project (See Pub. Resources Code, § 21167.6, subd. (e)(10); Browning-Ferris Industries v. Citv Council of City of San Jose (1986) 181 Cal.App.3d 852, 866; Stanislaus Audubon Society, Inc. v. County of Stanislaus (1995) 33 Cal.AppAth 144, 153, 155.) V. FINDINGS REQUIRED UNDER CEOA Public Resources Code section 21002 provides that"public agencies should not approve projects as proposed if there are feasible alternatives or feasible mitigation measures available which would substantially lessen the significant environmental effects of such projects[.]" The same statute provides that the procedures required by CEQA "are intended to assist public agencies in systematically identifying both the significant effects of Projects and the feasible alternatives or feasible mitigation measures which will avoid or substantially lessen such significant effects." Section 21002 goes on to provide that "in the event [that] specific economic, social, or other conditions make infeasible such project alternatives or such mitigation measures, individual projects may be approved in spite of one or more significant effects thereof." The mandate and principles announced in Public Resources Code section 21002 are implemented, in part, through the requirement that agencies must adopt findings before approving projects for which EIRs are required. For each significant environmental effect identified in an EIR for a Project,the approving agency must issue a written finding reaching one Love's Travel Stops Project 8 Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations