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Sierra Club Comments Application Number PA-1800128(MS) Page 2 <br /> be fostered by smaller parcels of approximately 40 acres. I wonder how designation of AG-40 was assigned as <br /> zoning when served by a water well when the General Plan specifies minimum lot sizes of 160 acres. <br /> The area in which the 207 East Durham Ferry property is located is within a transitional zone of the San Joaquin <br /> County Multi-Species Habitat Plan': <br /> The habitat types within the Central/Southwest Transition Zone are generally the same as those found within the <br /> Central Zone(the Row and Field Crop/Riparian Preserve Types as described in Section 5.3.3.30D I).However, <br /> occurrence records for the San Joaquin kit fox indicate that this SJMSC-P Covered Species occasionally wanders <br /> outside of the Southwest Zone and into the area along the common boundary between the Southwest Zone and the <br /> Central Zone. To recognize this transition,the CentraUSouthwest Transition Zone was created. When <br /> Conversions of Open Space occur within the Central/Southwest Transition Zone,they are regarded as impacting <br /> both the suite of species associated with habitats in the Southwest Zone Grassland Preserve Type and those habitat <br /> types associated with the Row and Field Crop/Riparian Preserves in the Central Zone. To offset impacts <br /> occurring with the Central/Southwest Transition Zone,Preserves may be established in either the Central Zone's <br /> Row and Field Crop/Riparian Preserve system(which includes habitat within the Central/Southwest Transition <br /> Zone)or within the Southwest Zone's Grassland Preserve system as described in Section 5.3.3.3(B 1). <br /> Additional environmental review is warranted to evaluate the potential for habitat fragmentation related to <br /> subdividing the 438 acres into 10 separate parcels and endangered or threatened species that are known to exist <br /> in the area of the property location. <br /> Thankyou for your consideration. Please contact me if I can answer any questions regarding the concerns <br /> expressed herein. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Mary Elizabeth,M.S.,R.E.H.S. <br /> Delta Sierra Group Conservation Chair <br /> elizabeth@marric.us <br /> Z http://www.sjcog.org/DocumentCenter/View/5/Habitat-Planpdf <br />