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KLEINFELDER 2 SITE SETTING 2.1. SITE LOCATION The Spreckels site is located in a portion of the Northern 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 of Section 4, a portion of the Eastern 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 4 and the Western 1/2 of Section 3 of Township 2 South, Range 7 East of the Mount Diablo Baseline and Meridian. According to the 1987 photorevised U.S. Geological Survey "Manteca, California, East", 7.5-Minute Topographic Quadrangle Map, the property has an elevation of approximately 40 feet above mean sea level. However, the topography of the site varies. According to a December 1996 topographic survey of the site by RLC Associates of Manteca (the basis of our attached site maps), the site has an elevation ranging from approximately 38 to 68 feet above mean sea level. The overall former Spreckels Sugar Plant No. 2 property includes approximately 362 acres of property within the City of Manteca (Plate 1). 2.2. CURRENT SITE USE AND VICINITY CHARACTERISTICS The project site is a former sugar beet processing plant with associated former cattle yards, orchards, and waste ponds. All surface structures other than the former office building have been razed. The property is being redeveloped as a 362 acre, mixed-use development called "Spreckels Park." Spreckels Avenue, now runs south and southwest from the intersection of Cottage Avenue and Yosemite Avenue to Moffat Boulevard near the current southwest corner of the property. Seven lots of commercial property covering 48.0 acres border the intersection of Yosemite Avenue and Spreckels Avenue and cover the current northeast corner of the property. Portions of that commercial development are developed. South of the commercial development, bordered by Spreckels Avenue on the west and Highway 99 on the east, nine lots of industrial property are proposed constituting a 180.8-acre industrial park. A large portion of the industrial park is complete. The area in the current northwest corner has been constructed as a 35.9-acre residential development, including an approximate 4.6 acre park/stormwater basin. The remaining area, bordered by the residential development and property boundary on the west and Spreckels Avenue on the east, is proposed for an office/business park consisting of seven lots on approximately 83.5-acres. The ' southernmost boundary of the office/business park would include another park/stormwater basin. The site is bounded to the north by Yosemite Avenue, to the south by California State Highway 120 Bypass, to the west by Powers Avenue and residential development and to the east by California State Highway 99. The land use in the site vicinity is 20-3978-03.MN7/ST08R117 February 1,2008 ©2008 Kleinfelder Page 2 of 19