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Sequoia Ecological Consulting, Inc. CalVTP Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum Augustin Bernal Community Park Fuel Reduction November 2025 1-6 Serving as the lead agency under the CEQA, the City proposes to implement vegetation treatments on 162 acres of land within Pleasanton, California. The proposed treatment types include shaded fuel breaks and fuel reduction. The treatment activities and methods include manual vegetation management, mechanical treatment, prescribed herbivory treatment, herbicide application, and prescribed burning. The City has evaluated the proposed treatments for CEQA compliance as later activities covered by the CalVTP PEIR using the PSA checklist herein. These treatment types and treatment activities are consistent with those covered in the CalVTP PEIR. Ongoing maintenance of the proposed vegetation treatments would involve the same activities as the original treatments (i.e., manual, mechanical, prescribed herbivory, herbicide, and prescribed burning treatments). 1.3. Purpose of this Project-Specific Analysis and Addendum This document serves as the PSA to evaluate whether the proposed project is within the scope of the CalVTP PEIR. As described above, the treatment types and treatment activities are consistent with the CalVTP, which identifies the portion of the SRA that may be appropriate for vegetation treatments as “the treatable landscape.” One criterion for determining whether a treatment project is within the scope of the CalVTP PEIR is whether it is within the CalVTP treatable landscape (i.e., the geographic extent of analysis covered in the PEIR). Within the project area, 69.5 acres are within the treatable landscape, and 92.5 acres are outside of the treatable landscape (Figure 3). The PSA checklist (see Section 3.0) includes the criteria to support an addendum to the CalVTP PEIR for the inclusion of proposed treatment areas outside the CalVTP treatable landscape. The checklist evaluates each resource in terms of whether the later treatment project, including the “changed condition” of additional geographic area, would result in significant impacts that would be more severe than those covered in the CalVTP PEIR and/or would result in any new impacts that were not covered in the PEIR. The project-specific MMRP, which includes the CalVTP SPRs and MMs applicable to the proposed project, is presented in Attachment A. The SPRs and MMs have been tailored to the specific impact avoidance and minimization actions relevant to the proposed treatments, agency standard practices, and the conditions and resources present within each treatment site. In all cases, the additional project-specific implementation instructions and clarifying edits to MMs maintain the SPRs and MMs as equivalent to or more effective than those presented in the PEIR. Where applicable, the SPRs identified in the MMRP have been incorporated into the proposed vegetation treatments as a standard part of treatment design and implementation of the proposed project. This document also serves as an addendum to the CalVTP PEIR for the inclusion of the additional 93 acres outside of the treatable landscape. An addendum to an EIR is appropriate when a previously certified EIR has been prepared and some changes or revisions to the project are proposed, or the circumstances