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V. CERTIFICATION OF THE EIR 15. In accordance with CEQA, the City Council certifies that the EIR has been completed in compliance with CEQA. The City Council has independently reviewed the record and the EIR prior to certifying the EIR and approving the Project. By these findings, the City Council confirms, ratifies, and adopts the findings and conclusions of the EIR as supplemented and modified by these findings. The EIR and these findings represent the independent judgment and analysis of the City and the City Council. 16. The City Council recognizes that the EIR may contain clerical errors. The City Council reviewed the entirety of the EIR and bases its determination on the substance of the information it contains. 17. The City Council certifies that the EIR is adequate to support the approval of the General Plan Amendment, Re -zoning of the entire project site to Commercial Community with a Planned Development Overlay, the Planned Development Project, Site Plan Review for Phase 1 of the Medical Center, Development Agreement, and taking all other actions and recommendations that is the subject of the staff report to which these CEQA findings are attached. The City Council certifies that the EIR is adequate to support approval of the project described in the EIR, each component and phase of the Project described in the EIR, any variant of the Project described in the EIR, any minor modifications to the Project or variants described in the EIR and the components of the Project. VI. ABSENCE OF SIGNIFICANT NEW INFORMATION 18. The City Council recognizes that the Final EIR incorporates information obtained and produced after the Draft EIR was completed, and that the EIR contains additions, clarifications, and modifications. The City Council has reviewed and considered the Final EIR and all of this information. The Final EIR does not add significant new information to the Draft EIR that would require recirculation of the EIR under CEQA. The new information added to the EIR does not involve a new significant environmental impact, a substantial increase in the severity of an environmental impact, or a feasible mitigation measure or alternative considerably different from others previously analyzed that the project sponsor declines to adopt and that would clearly lessen the significant environmental impacts of the Project. No information indicates that the Draft EIR was inadequate or conclusory or that the public was deprived of a meaningful opportunity to review and comment on the Draft EIR. Thus, recirculation of the EIR is not required. 19. The City Council finds that the changes and modifications made to the EIR after the Draft EIR was circulated for public review and comment do not individually or collectively constitute significant new information within the meaning of Public Resources Code section 21092.1 or the CEQA Guidelines section 15088.5. VII. MITIGATION MEASURES, CONDITIONS OF APPROVAL, AND MITIGATION MONITORING AND REPORTING PROGRAM 20. Public Resources Code section 21081.6 and CEQA Guidelines section 15097 require the City to adopt a monitoring or reporting program to ensure that the mitigation measures -4-