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• Cumulative impacts to special status taxa are not addressed in D11 <br /> the DEIR - specifically, Swainsons hawks and sandhill cranes. <br /> • Where are all the mitigations going to take place? D12 <br /> Robert Knabke (Forest Lake Road) : <br /> • Sandhill cranes come the first of October and leave the first <br /> of March. Geese and ducks also come to this area. The report D13 <br /> says that 720 acres will be for a preserve. The truth is <br /> there will be no preserve. The whole thing is going to be a <br /> profitable golf course for a bunch of developers. <br /> • They will want to put in a bridge and deepen the lake. How <br /> many pumps will it take to keep it full? San Joaquin County D14 <br /> has an overdraft of 220, 000 feet. The wells in that area are <br /> going down every year. Farmers all over the State cannot get <br /> enough water. <br /> • If this golf course is put in there will be three courses----7 15 <br /> within three miles of each other. In two years there will be D <br /> no wildlife left in this area. <br /> John Newbold (1098 East Woodbridge Road) , Chairman of the Mokelumne <br /> River Alliance: <br /> • The mission of the Mokelumne River Alliance is the long-term <br /> preservation and restoration of the Mokelumne River and its <br /> bordering habitat for the present and future benefit of <br /> wildlife fisheries and citizens of the area. The proposed <br /> Buckeye Ranch subdivision and its impacts are contrary to <br /> their mission and to wise planning in this County. <br /> • The identified potential adverse impacts on biotic and <br /> cultural resources will be significant and unmitigable. How <br /> do you mitigate for the unmitigable? The suggested <br /> mitigations to lessen adverse impacts to less than a <br /> significant level will radically alter the proposed project to D16 <br /> the point that the project will be unfeasible. Considering <br /> the integrity of biotic and cultural resources, he recommends <br /> no project, with the caveat that a public agency or <br /> conservation organization work with the developers towards the <br /> purchase or the granting of a conservation easement to protect <br /> these valuable resources. <br /> • He supports the DEIR' s identification of biotic resources that-I <br /> may be affected by the proposed project but wonders if the D17 <br /> study is sufficient to provide required environmental <br /> safeguards. <br /> Minutes - 3 - (ER-91-2) <br /> IV-3 <br />