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Appendix C: CEQA FINDINGS MOUNTAIN HOUSE REVISED NEIGHBORHOODS K AND L I. INTRODUCTION I. These CEQA findings are adopted by the County of San Joaquin (the "County") as the lead agency for the Mountain House Master Plan (the "Master Plan") and approval of Tentative Subdivision Maps for Neighborhoods K and L (the "Project"). These findings pertain to the Environmental Impact Report, SCH #90020776 (the"1994 MEIR") prepared for the Master Plan, which was certified on November 10, 1994. These findings also pertain to the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration prepared for the Project. 2. An application for the Project was filed with the County on November 7, 2010. The application was deemed complete for processing on December 28, 2010. The Project requires two Tentative Subdivision Maps (PA-1000266; PA-1000267). The County prepared an Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration for the Project in September 2011 ("2011 IS/MND"). II. THE PROJECT 3. The Project is made up of two new Tentative Subdivision Maps—one for Neighborhood K and the other for Neighborhood L. The Project would include development of 691 acres, or 14.5 percent of the approximately 4,780 acres of Mountain House. 'It would include: Two residential neighborhoods, containing 1,578 single-family detached homes and 838 attached homes (total of 2,416 dwelling units); 38.93 acres of commercial uses, consisting of 2.95 acres of neighborhood commercial, 19.01 acres of community commercial, and 16.97 acres of mixed use; 140.66 acres of neighborhood, community and regional parks, including a linear park/trail system along Old River that forms the northern boundary of Mountain House and a park a long Mountain House Creek that is part of Neighborhood L, 47.33 acres of lakes in Neighborhood K and 52.93 acres of lakes in Neighborhood L; 12.67 acres of water quality basins in Neighborhood L; one 2- acre area in Neighborhood L for a transit station adjoining the Union Pacific Railroad and Byron Road, 1.13 acres for public facilities in Neighborhood K and 5.2 acres of private facilities in Neighborhood K; 33.11 acres for two separate K-8 schools, one in each neighborhood; Landscaped roadways to interconnect the community; extensions of bicycle/pedestrian trails; and expansions of all required infrastructure and utilities (e.g., water and wastewater lines, etc.). 4. Mountain House is a master community located on a 4,780-acre site near San Joaquin County's border with Alameda County, northwest of the City of Tracy. The Mountain House Master Plan land use map is the General Plan Community Plan 2010 map for Mountain House. Ultimate buildout of the community is projected to include a resident population of about 42,000 persons and jobs for about 22,000. Buildout of Specific Plan II would accommodate about 24,900 of the projected total Mountain House population of 42,000. Currently, approximately 3,000 residential dwelling units and other uses (including office and retail, schools, and other civic facilities) have been developed in the community. The Project (Neighborhoods K and L) would be the final residential development within the project. 5. The Project would be consistent with the land uses and densities shown for the project site in SPII and would not require amendments to either SPIT or the Mountain House Master Plan. III. ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW 6. The Project will be part of Specific Plan II, the second major phase of the development identified in the Mountain House Master Plan Final EIR, which is a Master EIR (adopted in 1994 by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors and referred to hereinafter as the"1994 MEIR"). Specific Plan II was approved in 2005. The 1994 MEIR, incorporated herein 1