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MOUNTAIN HOUSE NEIGHBORHOOD'F"PROJECT INITIAL STUDY For the purposes of this Initial Study,the following are considered potentially significant General Plan and zoning impacts: • If project development is not consistent with policies or programs included in the Master Plan or Specific Plan 1; • If project development is not consistent with the Special Purpose Plan adopted for Neighborhood"F"; • If project development is not consistent with the San Joaquin County General Plan 2010; • If project development is not consistent with the County Development Title. The County has completed a brief analysis of the project's consistency with relevant planning documents and has determined that no significant inconsistencies exist as related to protection of environmental resources. The Master Plan, Specific Plan 1, and Special Purpose Plan amendments described in Chapter II of this Initial Study would ensure that the Neighborhood"F"project is generally consistent with applicable documents as amended. Some specific design issues may need to be addressed by conditions of approval. The amendments, as proposed, would have no significant environmental impacts. The County will complete a more detailed General Plan consistency analysis after completion of the Initial Study. c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community conservation plan? Refer to Section L of this Initial Study that addresses biological resources. The San Joaquin County Multi-Species Habitat Conservation and Open Space Plan (SJMSCP) has been prepared to provide a strategy for balancing the need to conserve agricultural lands and wildlife habitat while accommodating a growing population in the County. The SIMSCP is designed to establish an assessment process for conversion of land to non-open space uses when such conversion may affect the plant, fish, and wildlife species covered by the SJMSCP. Some of the species of concern covered under the SJMSCP`include: Swainson's hawk, California tiger salamander, western pond turtle, giant garter snake, and valley elderberry longhorn beetle. The ultimate goal of the SIMSCP is to provide 100,841 acres of"preserves" over the 50-year lifetime of the SIMSCP, with most acres purchased as conservation easements over agricultural lands. A draft of the SIM- SCP was prepared in 1999, but has not yet been formally adopted by the County. This fee shall be placed into an interest bearing trust account that will be transferred to the JPA for the SJMSCP once it has been established. If the SJMSCP is not adopted within three years of the date of the approval of this Tentative Map, the fees collected will be utilized to administer the Mountain House Swainson Hawk HMP, and appropriate mitigation shall be acquired consistent with HMP criteria contained in the Master Plan. All other take avoidance measures and mitigation measures specified in the pre-construction surveys will still apply. Any and all mitigation shall be further reviewed and approved by California Department of Fish and Game and the U. S. Department of Fish and Wildlife. These measures are addressed in more detail in Section L of this Initial Study. Data Sources for Land Use Analysis San Joaquin County Development Title; adopted by San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, 1992. Mountain House New Community Master Plan;adopted by San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, 1994 and amended May 1998. C:UOBSWCOMAL S UDY\FMALBJ117ALMUDY-PARTI.DOC(7/7WM) 34 V.A. LAND USE AND PLANNING