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WHEREAS,the Final EIR outlined various mitigation measures that would substantially lessen or avoid the Project's significant effects on the environment, as well as alternatives to the project as proposed which would provide some environmental advantages; and WHEREAS,the County is required,pursuant to CEQA,to adopt all feasible mitigation measures or feasible project alternatives that can substantially lessen or avoid any significant environmental effects of a proposed project; and WHEREAS,Public Resources Code section 21081, subdivision(a), requires a public agency, before approving a project for which an EIR has been prepared and certified, to adopt findings specifying whether mitigation measures and, in some instances,alternatives discussed in the EIR,have been adopted or rejected as infeasible;and WHEREAS,Exhibit A to this Resolution is a set of Findings of Fact prepared in order to satisfy the requirements of Public Resources Code section 21081, subdivision(a); and WHEREAS,as the Findings of Fact explain,the Board of Supervisors, reflecting the advice of County staff and the Planning Commission,has expressed its intention to approve the proposed Project;and WHEREAS, in taking this course,the Board of Supervisors has acted consistent with the CEQA mandate to look to project mitigation measures and/or alternatives as a means of substantially lessening or avoiding the environmental effects of the Project as proposed; and WHEREAS,all but two significant and potentially significant environmental effects associated with the Project,as approved,can be mitigated to a less than significant level through the inclusion of mitigation measures proposed in the Final EIR;and WHEREAS, the Board, in approving the Project as proposed, intends to adopt all mitigation measures set forth in the Findings of Fact; and WHEREAS, those significant effects that cannot be mitigated to a less than significant level by the adoption of feasible mitigation measures will necessarily remain_significant and unavoidable; and WHEREAS, die Board has determined, for the reasons set forth in the Findings of Fact, none of the alternatives addressed in the Final EIR would be both feasible and environmentally superior to the Project with respect to the two significant unavoidable effects of the Project; and WHEREAS, Public Resources Code section 21081, subdivision (b), and CEQA Guidelines section 15093 requires the agency to adopt a "Statement of Overriding Considerations" before approving a project with significant unavoidable environmental effects; and WHEREAS, the Board desires, in accordance with CEQA, to declare that, despite the occurrence of significant unavoidable environmental effects associated with the Project as 2