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- Development Committee -2- Project Redesign: The Final EIR identified three potentially significant impacts that necessitate redesign of the project. These include land use impacts and biological impacts from the intrusion of residential lots and golf course fairways into the forest and forest fringes and cultural resource impacts also resulting from the present location of these development features. Based on these three impacts, the Final EIR recommends that the project be redesigned to incorporate the golf course and residential parcels in the north western 170 acres around North Tracy Lake. The Final EIR also recommends that no excavation activities take place in South Tracy Lake, and that it be left in its present unmodified physical state. In their comment letter on the revised Biological section of the Draft EIR, dated January 26, 1993 , the Department of Fish and Game (DFG) stated that none of the proposed mitigation measures discussed or address the loss of seasonal wetlands at north Tracy Lake, and that the EIR needed to include adequate mitigation for the direct loss of Seasonal wetlands at north Tracy Lake. In response to DFG' s comment, the Final EIR states that originally the suggested mitigation measure for the loss of the seasonal wetland component of North Tracy Lake was to allow it to be developed and filled, so that water could be taken from the North Tracy lake in drought periods to provide supplemental water to South Tracy Lake so that this seasonal wetland would not virtually disappear in drought years. The Final EIR then concludes: "If this mitigation measure is to be rejected and the only acceptable one is that an identical sized lake as North Tracy Lake with all of its present features be created nearby, then the total preservation of both lakes is the only wise choice" . Based on this statement, and the requirement of DFG that mitigation be provided for the loss of seasonal wetlands at both lakes, the Development Services Division will be recommending that the Quarry Excavation Application No. QX-91-1 be denied. In developing the following Conditions of Approval, the Development Services Division has relied on the suggested mitigation measures contained in the Final EIR, as well as recommended mitigation measures contained in comment letters on the Draft and Final EIR from other agencies, such as the Department of Fish and Game. These mitigation measures have also been used in preparing the "Findings of Environmental Significance" as required by the CEQA Guidelines. Please also