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City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Cultural Resources and Tribal Cultural Resources Draft EIR 3.4-30 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 Greek Orthodox Church Project includes a church that is more than 50 years old. However, potential cumulative impacts would be mitigated at an individual project level by adherence to applicable current State and federal laws and regulations, as well as other City and County laws, regulations, and mitigations, such as adherence to standard conditions of approval that require monitoring of construction sites in proximity to known resources (similar to as MM CUL-2a, e.g.). The combination of these efforts would reduce potential cumulative impacts related to historical resources to a less than significant level. Moreover, the proposed project would not have a considerably cumulative contribution to this already less than significant impact because there are no known historic resources that would be adversely impacted by the proposed project. Based on the foregoing, the proposed project would not have a significant cumulative impact on any historic resources. Archaeological Resources The geographic scope of the cumulative archaeological resources analysis is the project vicinity. This is because archaeological resource impacts tend to be localized because the integrity of any given resource depends on what occurs in the immediate vicinity around that resource, such as disruption of soils, and the immediate vicinity provides the smallest geographic unit within which significant cumulative impacts spanning multiple projects may occur. Therefore, in addition to the project site itself, the area near the project site would be the area most affected by project activities (generally within a 0.5-mile radius). For the purposes of this analysis, the geographic scope is defined as the 0.5-mile NWIC records search radius. As discussed above, the geographic scope for this cumulative setting includes existing industrial, commercial and residential uses. One cumulative project shown on Exhibit 3-1, Cumulative Projects Map, is within the 0.5-mile geographic scope. Moreover, cumulative impacts to archaeological resources are limited to construction-related ground disturbances. There is one archaeological resource recorded within this geographic scope, but none are recorded within the project site; however, there is the possibility of previously unknown archaeological resources that could be damaged or destroyed during subsurface construction activities associated with cumulative projects. Accordingly, any such potential cumulative impacts would be mitigated at an individual project level by adherence to applicable local, State, and federal laws and regulations, as well as City and County laws, regulations, and the City ’s standard conditions of approval, as well as project-specific mitigation as discussed in Section 3.4.4 and Section 3.4.6. Accordingly, cumulative impacts would be less than significant. Additionally, the proposed project would not have a cumulatively considerable contribution to the less than significant cumulative impacts. As noted above, two reports address the project site specifically, indicating that it has previously been surveyed for cultural resources and none were identified on-site. For the reasons noted above, the proposed project would not have a cumulatively considerable contribution to the less than significant cumulative impact on any known archaeological resources, and potentially significant impacts to any previously unknown resources that could be damaged or destroyed during project construction would be mitigated to less than significant by adherence to applicable laws and regulations and compliance with the identified mitigation measures (MM CUL-2 and COA CUL-3), which requires “on -call” monitoring during ground-disturbing construction, and inadvertent discovery procedures. Therefore, the proposed project would not have a cumulatively