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Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction November 2025 4-95 Mechanical treatments would not be applied on slopes above 50 percent. Implementation of SPRs AD-3, AQ-3, and GEO-3 through GEO-5 would reduce the risk of erosion and landslides post-prescribed burn and/or post-fire, in the event that a wildfire occurred as a result of the proposed treatments or an unrelated occurrence. Implementation of AD-3 would ensure consistency with local plans, policies, and related ordinances. Implementation of SPR AQ-3 would minimize soil burn severity during prescribed burns, which would help to retain vegetation to stabilize the soil. SPR GEO-3 would require stabilization of disturbed soil areas during treatment activities, SPR GEO-4 would require inspection of the treatment area for proper erosion control measures prior to the rainy season and immediately following the first large rainfall event, and SPR GEO-5 would require stormwater to be drained via water breaks to decrease the potential for channelized erosion within linear treatment areas. As described in Impact WIL-1, this project intends to create and maintain a reduced fuel zone, which may lead to smaller burn scars, or less area susceptible to post-fire flooding or erosion. The inclusion of approximately 93 acres of land that is outside the CalVTP treatable landscape in the proposed treatment area constitutes a change to the geographic extent presented in the PEIR. However, within the boundary of the project area, the post-fire landslide risk of the project area is essentially the same within and outside the treatable landscape due to similar slopes, soils, and hydrological and geological conditions. Therefore, the wildfire impact outside the treatable landscape is also the same and less than significant, as described above, with implementation of the same SPRs. The impact outside the treatable landscapes would be consistent with the lands analyzed in the PEIR. The Project would not create any substantially more severe significant impacts than identified in the PEIR. 4.16.1.3. New Impacts to Wildfire The proposed treatments are consistent with the treatment types and activities considered in the PEIR. The site-specific characteristics of the proposed treatments have been considered and found to be consistent with the applicable environmental and regulatory conditions presented in the CalVTP PEIR (refer to Sections 3.16.1, Environmental Setting, and 3.16.2, Regulatory Setting, in Volume II of the Final PEIR). The project proponent has also determined that the inclusion of land that is outside the CalVTP treatable landscape in the proposed treatment area constitutes a change to the geographic extent presented in the PEIR. However, within the boundary of the project area, the existing environmental and regulatory conditions pertinent to wildfire that are present in the areas outside the treatable landscape are essentially the same as those within the treatable landscape; therefore, the impacts of the proposed treatment project are also consistent with those covered in the PEIR. No changed circumstances are present, and the inclusion of areas outside of the CalVTP treatable landscape would not give rise to any new significant impacts. Therefore, no new impact related to wildfire risk would occur.