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Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction November 2025 1-1 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1. Overview of the Proposed Project The City of Pleasanton (City) is proposing the Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction Project (Project) within Pleasanton, California (Figure 1). The project area includes critical watershed and major transportation routes that collectively provide services to millions of regional residents. These include Interstate 680 (I-680) and local city roads. The Project would decrease the risk of wildfire-related disruptions to critical services and protect multiple community centers. Elements of this project would include publicity to build support and awareness of the Project amongst residents of the region; continued defensible space and home hardening education and enforcement to reinforce the Project’s benefits; and fuel reduction/removal management to include all environmental monitoring and fuel treatment operations. This project would be carried out in coordination with the City ’s ongoing community education/outreach efforts to aggressively reduce the risk of wildfire in the region. Working collaboratively with the City, Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Golden Eagle Estates, East Bay Regional Park District, and community members, the Project would result in the following outcomes: • Reduce biomass of woody and vegetative material available for combustion • Significantly reduce the probability of uncontrolled wildfires starting in or entering Augustin Bernal Community Park and surrounding communities • Increase effectiveness of defensible space surrounding residential structures in Augustin Bernal Community Park and surrounding communities • Decrease available woody and vegetative material for conversion to greenhouse gases (GHGs) through unplanned combustion processes (e.g., wildfire) • Provide a safer community with improved evacuation routes and access points for fire crews to establish anchor points The goal of the Project is to create and maintain a reduced fuel zone around Augustin Bernal Community Park and surrounding community (Figures 1 and 2). The Project would provide a strategic location for firefighters to suppress fires, reduce the intensity of incipient fires, and prevent incipient fires from laddering into the tree canopy or causing fires to drop to the ground within the fuel break and wildland- urban interface (WUI). The treatments proposed in this Project-Specific Analysis (PSA) would reduce dangerous wildfire fuels in a deliberate manner designed to minimize environmental impacts to wildlife and protected plants consistent with the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (PEIR; Ascent Environmental 2019). The Project would involve conducting vegetation management activities to contribute shaded fuel break/WUI fuel reduction as part of a regional effort, totaling approximately 162 acres of fuel reduction.