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1.The removal of any trees or other vegetation associated <br />with development under the Housing Element could result in direct losses of <br />nesting habitat, nests, eggs, or nestlings of special-status birds. <br />2.The removal of any trees or other vegetation or demolition <br />of unused or underutilized buildings could result in direct losses of roosting <br />special-status bats. <br />3.The destruction of burrowing owl burrows and grassland <br />habitat providing potentially suitable habitat for burrowing owl could result from <br />the proposed project. <br />4.Implementation of Mitigation Measures C-la through C1-d <br />set forth in Table 6-1 of the Final SEIR and listed in the MMRP will ensure that <br />Impact 4.0-1 would be reduced to a less than significant level and is hereby <br />incorporated by reference and described below: <br />4.0-la: Pre-construction Breeding Bird Surveys. The City shall ensure that prior <br />to development of all potential sites for rezoning (Sites 1-4, 6-11, 13, 14, and 16- <br />21) and each phase of project activities that have the potential to result in <br />impacts on breeding birds, the project applicant shall take the following steps to <br />avoid direct losses of nests, eggs, and nestlings and indirect impacts to avian <br />breeding success: <br />If grading or construction activities occur only during the non-breeding season, <br />between August 31 and February 1, no surveys will be required. <br />Pruning and removal of trees and other vegetation, including grading of <br />grasslands, should occur whenever feasible, outside the breeding season <br />February 1 through August 31). <br />During the breeding bird season (February 1 through August 31) a qualified <br />biologist will survey activity sites for nesting raptors and passerine birds not more <br />than 14 days prior to any ground-disturbing activity or vegetation removal. <br />Surveys will include all line-of-sight trees within 500 feet (for raptors) and all <br />vegetation (including bare ground) within 250 feet for all other species. <br />Based on the results of the surveys, avoidance procedures will be adopted, if <br />necessary, on a case-by-case basis. These may include construction buffer <br />areas (up to several hundred feet in the case of raptors) or seasonal avoidance. <br />Bird nests initiated during construction are presumed to be unaffected, and no <br />buffer would necessary except to avoid direct destruction of a nest or mortality of <br />nestlings. <br />If pre-construction surveys indicate that nests are inactive or potential habitat is <br />unoccupied during the construction period, no further mitigation is required. <br />Trees and shrubs that have been determined to be unoccupied by nesting or <br />other special-status birds may be pruned or removed. <br />Site(s) affected: Sites 1-4, 6-11, 13, 14, 16-21