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City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Cultural Resources and Tribal Cultural Resources Draft EIR 3.4-24 FirstCarbon Solutions https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480016/EIR/3 - Draft EIR/21480016 Sec03-04 Cultural-Tribal Cultural Resources.docx Goal 2 Preserve and enhance Downtown Pleasanton as a major focus of the community. Policy 1 Encourage the retention, use, and enhancement of older buildings of historical importance and architectural heritage. Program 1.1 Implement programs from the Conservation and Open Space Element related to historic preservation. Public Facilities and Community Programs Element Program 10.3 Disperse neighborhood and community parks throughout the City and combine them with areas of natural, scenic, or cultural resources. Goal 8 Improve quality of life in the City by adding and maintaining appropriate new community amenities. Policy 18 Provide additional public facilities to enhance the community. 3.4.5 - Thresholds of Significance The Lead Agency utilizes the criteria in the CEQA Guidelines Appendix G Environmental Checklist to establish thresholds of significance to determine whether impacts to cultural resources and TCRs are significant environmental effects. As such, the City has determined that the proposed project would have a potential impact if it would: a) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource as pursuant to Section 15064.5. b) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an archaeological resource pursuant to Section 15064.5. c) Disturb any human remains, including those interred outside of formal cemeteries. d) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a Tribal cultural resource, defined in Public Resources Code Section 21074 as either a site, feature, place, cultural landscape that is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American Tribe, and that is listed or eligible for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources, or in a local register of historical resources as defined in Public Resources Code Section 5020.1(k). e) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a Tribal cultural resource, defined in Public Resources Code Section 21074 as either a site, feature, place, cultural landscape that is geographically defined in terms of the size and scope of the landscape, sacred place, or object with cultural value to a California Native American Tribe, and that is a resource determined by the lead agency, in its discretion and supported by substantial evidence, to be significant pursuant to criteria set forth in subdivision (c) of Public Resources Code Section 5024.1.