Planning Commission meeting agenda packet 7-9-25

City of Pleasanton—Vineyard Avenue Residential Project Consistency Checklist 15183 Consistency Checklist 56 miles). A freshwater pond that could provide suitable breeding habitat is documented within 1.3 miles of the project site, and several CNDDB records for juvenile and adult members of the species dispersing also occur within that range. The closest record for dispersing adult California tiger salamanders occurs approximately 0.5-mile from the project site on Vineyard Avenue (CNDDB Occurrence No. 169). As such, the project site provides potentially suitable upland dispersal habitat for California tiger salamander. Development of the proposed project could, therefore, have a substantial adverse effect, either directly or through habitat modifications, on California tiger salamander, and a significant impact could occur. The BRA also notes that the project site could provide suitable nesting habitat for a variety of nesting birds and raptors, which are protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA). Nests were not observed on-site during the surveys conducted as part of the BRA; however, the potential for protected bird species to nest within the project site during future nesting seasons cannot be completely eliminated. Therefore, development of the proposed project could have a substantial adverse effect, either directly or through habitat modifications, on protected bird species, and a significant impact could occur. MM BIO-1, as presented in the Housing Element Update FEIR, requires that development projects prepare a BRA that includes site-specific measures to reduce potential impacts to a less-than-significant level. Consistent with MM BIO-1, the BRA prepared for the proposed project includes site-specific measures to address burrowing owl, California tiger salamander, and nesting birds and raptors. The City of Pleasanton would require the proposed project to comply with the site-specific measures within the BRA as a Condition of Approval. Additionally, the proposed project would be required as a Condition of Approval to preserve an equivalent amount of California tiger salamander upland dispersal habitat by mitigation C-2 of the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan. Based on the above, potential impacts to special-status species associated with the proposed project were adequately addressed in the Housing Element Update FEIR, and the proposed project would not result in any peculiar effects that would require further CEQA review.