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SSJCFA Board of Directors reviews its budget on an annual basis and makes the appropriate provisions for additional personnel, equipment, and facility improvements as necessary. As concluded in the City of Tracy Municipal Services Review prepared in May 2019, the City and the Rural Fire Protection District have actively planned to ensure adequate fire services are provided throughout their service areas, even when accounting for increased service demands as areas are developed (City of Tracy 2019). Because SSJCA, the City, and the Rural Fire Protection District have appropriately planned for anticipated growth in the greater project area (including the project), and because the project would be subject to the fire impact fees collected by the Rural Fire Protection District and would contribute funds to the operation of the SSJCA on an on- going basis (through the County's property tax assessment and special assessment fee collections), the project would result in less-than-significant impacts with regard to the provision of new fire protection facilities. Therefore, impacts associated with fire protection facilities would be less than significant, and this issue will not be further evaluated in the Draft EIR. ii) Less-than-Significant Impact. Police protection services for the project area are provided by the San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department. The County is divided into eight geographical areas, or"beats."These beats are staffed around the clock, providing emergency response capability to citizens in the unincorporated area. The project site is located within Beat 8, which generally covers the unincorporated areas around Tracy. The Police Department and San Joaquin County Sheriff's Department provide mutual aid when a situation exceeds the capabilities of either department. According to the County's General Plan, the County is anticipating growth within SOls that would not be immediately annexed into a particular city, and the Sheriff's Office has long-term staffing plans that would increase staffing across multiple divisions and expand patrol services into various urban and rural areas to be used as substations. The Project would result in the payment of property taxes that would result in additional revenue being available to the County, and, indirectly, would result in increased revenue available to the Sheriff's Department. In addition, compared with land use such as residential or commercial, the proposed warehouse and logistics use would not result in anything more than a nominal increase in calls for police protection service to the project site; as such, the project is not anticipated to generate a larger volume of calls of service to the site that could burden the County Sheriff's Department. Further, design of the project would also incorporate the basic principles Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, including controlling access to buildings to reduce opportunities for crime to occur and making as much of the site visible from the public right-of-way to deter on-site crimes. Therefore, impacts associated with police protection facilities would be less than significant, and this issue will not be further evaluated in the Draft EIR. iii) Less-than-Significant Impact. The project site is located within the Lammersville Unified School District. The project involves the development of a warehouse and distribution use and does not include a residential component that would directly result in new residents or school-age children in the area. While a portion of the project's employees are likely to have school-age children, it is anticipated that the majority of these employees would already be located within the project area (refer to Section XIV, Population and Housing) and would not introduce new school-age children to the area's school districts. If there are any school-age children introduced to the area that would be newly enrolled in area school districts, the number would be nominal and should not result in the need for new or expanded school facilities. Nonetheless, all residential and non-residential development projects are subject to the requirements set forth in Senate Bill 50, which requires payment of mandatory impact fees to offset any impact to school services or facilities. The provisions of Senate Bill 50 are deemed to provide full and complete mitigation of school facilities impacts, notwithstanding any contrary provisions in CEQA or other state or local laws (Government Code Section 65996). In accordance with Senate Bill 50, the Project Applicant would pay its fair share of impact fees based on the amount of proposed square footage. These impact fees are required of most residential, commercial, and industrial development projects in the County. Therefore, impacts associated with school facilities would be less than significant, and this issue will not be further evaluated in the Draft EIR. iv) Less-than-Significant Impact. Given the lack of population growth as a result of the Project, neither construction nor operation of the Project would generate new residents to the extent that new or expanded park facilities would be required. Therefore, impacts associated with park facilities would be less than significant, and no further analysis will be conducted in the Draft EIR. v) Less-than-Significant Impact. The Project would not directly or indirectly induce substantial population growth in the project area. As such, it is unlikely that the Project would cause an increase in the use of other public facilities such as libraries and community centers. Therefore, impacts associated with libraries and other public facilities would be less than significant, and no further analysis will be conducted in the Draft EIR. Enter oroiect#s. —Initial Study 31