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PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES JANUARY 16, 1992 6 . REVIEW OF DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT NO. ER-91-1 FOR THE MOUNTAIN HOUSE NEW TOWN GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENT (SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT 5) : A Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) has been prepared on the proposed Mountain House New Town. This draft EIR addresses the environmental effects of a proposed General Plan Amendment to change the General Plan on 4, 667 acres from Agricul- ture to New Town and nine proposed Williamson Act Contract - Cancellations to cancel a total of 2, 920 acres currently under nine separate contracts. The project site is located in an area bounded by Old San Joaquin River on the north, agricultural lands and Patterson Pass Road on the east, Alameda County on the west, and the I-205 corridor on the south, northwest of Tracy (Supervisorial District 5) . Senior Planner Kitty Walker introduced a staff report into the record and noted that the Commission was to receive oral and written comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report. PUBLIC HEARING OPENED Elizabeth Shreeve, with SWA Consultants, said she is the Principal Planner for the applicants of the Mountain House project, and she discussed the proponent's new mitigated land use diagram which was prepared in direct response to impacts identified in the Draft EIR: • There is no change to the land use program; • She noted alternative means to mitigate impacts such as replacing the 1000 ' buffer along the west side of the project and along the freeway with other types of development and landscaping procedures and a relocation of the industrial designation. • Regarding the school/noise impact, they relocated schools and suggest mitigation by sound walls or earth berms. • Community structures and neighborhoods have been identified in the new sketch plan as a 3-tiered system (hierarchy of community structure) . There are to be 12 neighborhoods, each focused around one of the twelve K through 8 schools. There will be a school/park combination in association with a neighborhood center. Three to five neighborhoods are con- tained in each of the three villages with about 5, 000 resi- dences each. The villages are each served by a community commercial area (about 15 acres) . The town center has been relocated adjacent to the Mountain House Creek Linear Park. • She noted traffic circulation changes. Comm. Carter asked Senior Planner Kitty Walker about a trail that passes through the site. Ms. Walker said she was recently informed that the San Juan Bautista/DeAnza National Historic Trail passes through the site, and the National Park Service has asked that the trail be designated and signed within the New Town. PC MINUTES -1- JAN 16, 1992