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City of Pleasanton—Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve Project Response to Public Meeting Verbal Comments Final EIR 4-6 FirstCarbon Solutions https://adecinnovations.sharepoint.com/sites/PublicationsSite/Shared Documents/Publications/Client (PN-JN)/2148/21480016/EIR/4 - Final EIR/21480016 Sec04-00 Response to Public Meeting Verbal Comments.docx The EBRPD would be responsible for maintenance of the proposed trailhead and trail staging area. Additionally, Draft EIR Section 3.16, Wildfire, page 3.16-12 notes that the proposed project would be adequately served by fire protection services and would be constructed in compliance with the California Fire Code, as well as the California Building Code. As such, the proposed project would have a less than significant impact related to the spread of wildfire. This comment is included in the administrative record and will be provided to the decision makers for review and consideration. The comment did not provide new, substantial evidence with respect to the disposition of significant environmental impacts evaluated in the Draft EIR. Therefore, no further response is required. Robert Devany (R.DEVANY 3) Good evening. Thank you for uh making time for us tonight. Um my name is Robert Devany. Um my family owns the 160-acre parcel that's immediately west of the you see the yellow box there. So, that that westernmost line uh is the start of our property and it goes west about 1,200 ft and uh comprises uh uh 100 and we basically our family so we are the Devany of Devany Canyon. This is not Hidden Canyon. This is Devany Canyon. That's a recognized geographic place name. Devany Creek flows through it. That was that was shown in the EIR. But uh regardless, um much of this land of the project itself was owned by my family. Um the lands were purchased in uh January of 1866. And so we've had continuous ownership of the the one parcel to the west since then. Um, so we have historically for a very long period of time used a good the central portion of the project site basically more or less following that road off of Dublin Canyon Road to the east through and it basically bisects through where where the housing uh the central housing area is and it crosses into what is committed to the East Bay Regional Parks in the green area. Um we use that road as the sole access to our property. Okay. And um we pulled in a subject matter expert. We reviewed the records that we have and the and the records indicate that that while we don't have a recorded easement, we have established the rights for that easement through California law. Okay. Um, so this road is it it's shown in several of the exhibits um in the DEIR. Um, Exhibit 2-3 aerial shows portions of it. Exhibit 2- 6 uh shows portions of it, although it inaccurately shows that that road ends in the green area before it reaches um the corner just below that residential house. Uh that's the property owned by the Stalys and then it crosses into our land right there. So that is the way that we maintain our cattle operation. This land is protected under the Williamson act and uh we uh have no structures there, but we keep cattle there uh through a tenant process. Okay. So, when we reviewed the DEIR, we we didn't see any um reference to the existence of this road, to the use of this road and the fact that that this is a key access point um to our property. Okay. So we think that that is a deficiency that this potentially has significant impacts. Certainly, to us it would have sig very significant impacts, but we think broad more broadly in the EIR context it does and um you know there there's several sections u the uh page 2-20 uh page 3.10-11 it does not dis discuss the compatibility with surrounding uses that's clearly impact incompatible with the surrounding uses our use. Um and um there there's numerous other things that there will be transportation impacts from our use of our easement within the project. Right? We have uh farm vehicles, trucks with movement of cattle seasonally, things like that. So that will have impacts on this project. Um, and uh, all of this needs to be carried into the cumulative impacts, the project alternative sections. There's just no coverage at all for any of this. And we're really surprised because we raised this issue back in 2019 in this room. And uh, it was apparently ignored or misunderstood or something. But in part, that's why we we brought in a subject matter expert to look at this carefully. This is a real thing, we think. So um so you know we