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i l f INTRODUCTION y This Checklist evaluates the proposed application for a Major Subdivision for the Altamont Heights residential development located within the Mountain House Community in the southwest portion of San Joaquin County. The applicant and property owner is Golden State Investments 11, LP. The Major Subdivision would divide the 12.72-acre site into 53 parcels with an average density of 4.16 dwelling units per acre. The project site is located south of Grant Line Road and the Grant Line��Village hornesites, and east of the San Joaquin/Alameda County line in the southern portion of the Mountain House Community within the Specific Plan III area. - Mountain House is a new community planned on.an approximately 4,400-acre site near San Joaquin County's border with Alameda County,northwest of the City of Tracy- Ultimate buildout of the community is projected to include a resident population of about 39,000 persons and jobs for about 21,600. The effects of development throughout Mountain House were addressed in the Mountain House Master Plan Final EIR (MSIR) that was adopted by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors in 1994. Specific impacts of development within the College Park at Mountain House Specific Plan III area (SPIN) were addressed in the College Park at Mountain House Specific Plan III Final EIR that was adopted by the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors in 2005. This document is referred to hereinafter as the "SPIIIEIR" or the"Specific Plan III jEIR." Because this latter EIR reflects current conditions, it supersedes the 1994 MEIR. When there are conflicts between the Master Plan and Specific Plan III, the Specific Plan III shall govern. The SPIIIEIR was prepared as both a Program and Project EIR. The Program E � ) gra IR component evaluated impacts relating to the overall SPIII land use designations. The Project EIR component analyzed the portions of SPIII for which entitlements to construct, including tentative maps, were requested. The housing units and land use designated for the Machado property were evaluated by the SPIII EIR, but only at a program level of review. PURPOSE OF DOCUMENT' { The purpose of this Checklist is to determine whether the proposed project is "within the scope" of the SPIIIEIR and to examine the continued adequacy of the SPIIIEIR. CEQA Guidelines section 15168(c)(4) (2006), states: "Where the subsequent activities involve site specific operations, the agency should use a written Checklist or similar device to document the evaluation of the site and the activity to determine whether the environmental effects of the operation were covered in the program EIR" Thus, the Checklist examines whether: k r MOUNTAIN HOUSE PROPOSED MACHADO TFNTATIVE MAP 1-1