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WHEREAS,the City received comment letters from State, regional, and local agencies as well as interested individuals and organizations during the public review period. In accordance with CEQA,the City prepared written responses to all the written comments received during the public review period. The City prepared a Final EIR dated January 5, 2018, attached as Exhibit B and incorporated herein by reference. The Final EIR included an annotated copy of each comment letter identifying specific comments,responses to each specific comment,and clarifications and minor - corrections to information presented in the Draft FIR. The responses to comments provide the City's good faith, reasoned analysis of the environmental issues raised by the comments; and WHEREAS, information was generated in the course of preparing written responses for the Final FIR. The City carefully reviewed both the comments and the written responses to assess whether they constituted significant new information that would require recirculation of the Draft EIR under the standards in CEQA Guidelines section 15088.5. After its review,the City determined that the Final EIR, including the comments,clarifications and minor corrections to the Draft EIR, did not constitute significant new information requiring recirculation of the Draft EIR; and WHEREAS, a staff report, dated January 18, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference, described and analyzed the Specific Plan and the related Draft and Final EIRs for the Planning Commission; and WHEREAS,the Planning Commission reviewed the January 18, 2018 staff report,and the Draft and Final EIRs at a noticed public hearing on January 18, 2018, at which time all interested parties had the opportunity to be heard; and WHEREAS, following the public hearing,the Planning Commission adopted Resolution Z:) 2018-001, incorporated herein by reference,recommending that the City Council certify the EIR, and make all required mitigation and other findings. The Planning Commission then adopted a resolution recommending that the City Council adopt the Specific Plan; and WHEREAS, Resolution 2018-001 also included a recommendation that the City Council receive and review comments from individual Planning Commissioners related to the Specific Plan FIR; and WHEREAS, a staff report.. dated February 20, 2018 and incorporated herein by reference, described and analyzed the Specific Plan and the related Draft and Final EIRs for the City Council; and WHEREAS,the City Council reviewed the staff report, and the Draft and Final EIRs, at a noticed public hearing on February 20,2018, at which time all interested parties had the opportunity to be heard; and WHEREAS,the City Council received and reviewed the comments from individual Planning Z:1 Commissioners related to the Specific Plan EIR; and WHEREAS, the Draft and Final EIRs reflect the City's independent judgment and analysis on the potential for environmental impacts and constitute the Environmental Impact Report for the Bay Fair Transit-Oriented Development(TOD) Specific Plan: and WHEREAS, the EIR identified several potentially significant impacts that will be reduced to a less than significant level with specified mitigation measures. Approval of the Specific Plan will RESOLUTION NO. 2018-008 2