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prevent discontinuous development. The fact that this project would constitute a premature removal of farmland from the Williamson Act, promote hop-scotch development, and be growth inducing to other property owners in the area (pg. 4. 1- 16) is a major impact of unmitigatible nature. According to the D. E. I . R. , a preliminary survey yielded information that 50% of those returning the survey would be influenced by the project' s removal from the contract. How can the developer fully and successfully mitigate the growth inducement of his project in the area and stop the tide of premature conversion of farmland, a problem of serious and growing proportions in D10 San Joaquin County which stands to lose 95, 000 acres of farmland due to cumulative effects of all development planned for the County and its cities. Page 5. 5 of the D. E. I . R. sums it up quite well by saying "the proposed project would convert existing grazing land and major portions of foraging habitat to residential and recreational uses, converting seasonal wetland habitat to a permanent lake environment, and potentially damaging or destroying significant cultural resources. THIS WOULD BE IRREVERSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE. " (Capitalization added. ) Another area of uncertainty which prohibits proper and full mitigation is the fact that the full extent of the archaeological resources is still to be determined. Mr. Johnson, an archaeologist quoted in the Studies document (pg. o7, Johnson letter) says of the team that preceded him, "the consulting archaeologists did not find all of the cultural resources, they did not adequately determine the characteristics of the known resources" . Can Mr. Johnson be sure that he, in turn, has located all the sites? It is possible that a substantial number of sites are still to be discovered, given that the area has a history of human habitation that extends back 13, 000 years. How can we hope -D11 to discover all there is to know about an area this ancient in ,just one or two walk-through surveys, or indeed, in even a fifty year framework of study? Just as the area of the Great Pyramids in Egypt recently yielded a "new" pyramid after all these years of extensive combing of the site, so might this area yield more upon further investigation. Once homes are built and a golf course is laid out, that opportunity is greatly altered if not lost forever and we may never learn the true extent of this area' s archaeological significance. How can we ask a developer to mitigate that which hasn' t been discovered or delineated yet? Truly this is an attempt to "mitigate the unmitigatible" . ,_ Because of the unquantified nature of � 1— c'sltur al sanctuary, the staging and moving of heavy equipment would be D12 almost an impossible task to accomplish without damage to possible burial sites. Another unmitigatible impact. Also even the digging and placing of the septic tanks and the pas-- VI-49