SU0004094 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

be a significant impact, terracing will be required every fifty(50)feet of height pursuant to Development Title Section 9-1415.3(k). The applicants indicated this would not be a problem. This impact is less than significant. Biological Resources "Waters of the U.S"(Wetlands). The EIR reviewed two mining options. Mining option 1 would leave Hospital Creek in place, mining both sides with a 100-foot setback from the centerline of the creek to the top of the mining slope(see figure 3-3, mining option 1). The second option would mine the creek. This project is for mining option 1. The EIR found that mining option one would not have a significant impact on"waters of the U.S". Special Status Species. The EIR determined that this project could have a significant impact on several special status species covered under the SJMSCP, including San Joaquin kit fox, tricolored blackbird, western burrowing owl, Swainson's hawk,white-tailed kite, and loggerhead shrike. The EIR determined that these impacts would be reduced to less than significant by complying with the SJMSCP for phases covered by the SJMSCP. For phases not covered by the SJMSCP(i.e., those in Stanislaus County), the EIR developed several mitigation measures that would reduce the impact to less than significant(see MMRP page 5-8, mitigation measures 4.9.2a-d). Biological Resource impacts are less than significant after mitigation. Cultural Resources The EIR found potentially significant impacts relative to damage to previously unidentified buried archaeological remains and human remains during project construction. The EIR found that these impacts to Cultural Resources would be reduced to less than significant with mitigation measures 4.10.1 and 4.10.2 (see MMRP page 5-12). Hazards The EIR determined that the project could have significant impacts relating to a possible existing underground storage tank, existing miscellaneous hazardous substances (e.g., gasoline, diesel fuel, solvents, etc.), above ground fuel tanks, and disease vectoring mosquitoes from the silt ponds. The EIR determined that these potentially significant impacts would be reduced to less than significant with mitigation measures 4.11.1, 2, and 4 (see MMRP page 5-13). Visual The project has the potential to conflict with the State of California Department of Transportation Scenic Highway Program and the County General Plan (specifically Resource Policy 13: "Development proposal along scenic routes shall not detract from the visual and recreational experience"). The EIR determined that mitigation measure 4.12.2 would reduce this impact to less than significant(see MMRP, page 5-13) Williamson Act Phases II and III (APNs 265-010-15 and 16)are under Williamson Act Contract(No. 77-C1-43). A Notice of Nonrenewal was approved for both parcels in October 2004 (PA-0400591). Those properties will be out of contract in 2015. Quarries are compatible uses under Williamson Act Contract provided that the land is rehabilitated for agricultural use, as is proposed (Section 9-1810.3[b][1][W]). This is a less than significant impact. The contract restricts development to uses that are compatible with the Williamson Act and Development Title Section 9-1805. "Compatible use"as defined in the Williamson Act includes uses determined by the San Joaquin County QX-01-2\Lonestar California Community Development Page 18