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Water Resources Control Board. Ponderosa Homes III, Inc. should be held to the same legal requirement. Environmental Impact Table E –1 required by the CEQA guidelines, identifies nearly every impact as “less than significant impact” or “no impact” … There are a few entries identifying a “potentially significant impact” but these are immediately dismissed. Overall, the reader/reviewer has the impression that there are no environmental concerns…..the environment is the same with or without the proposed housing development. But obviously this is not true! In my previous comments (letter dated March 26, 2019) regarding the project, I requested a photomontage. This was provided in the report and is shown in Figure 10. Assuming this is not intentionally deceptive, it is not a correct portrayal of the site on which the homes will be built. I have provided two views of the hillside on which the homes will be built in Figure 11. These should be used as the “before” figures with the “after” to be provided when the homes and streets are added. Additional “before” photos should be obtained from Google Earth. The “after” overhead photos should show Streets A, B, and Court C and the 28 homes. “Honesty is the best policy.” It is noted many times in the DEIR that a substantial benefit of the Hidden Canyon Residences and Preserve project is that it would provide a staging area and access to a trail at the north end of Pleasanton Ridge Park. The environmental impact of the public going to/from the staging/parking area to the trailhead is not given. Where will this access trail be located? How will the public be prevented from walking on the Vinson/EBRPD driveway? Will the public be prevented from wandering in the meadow and other land EBRPD will obtain from the Lesters?? No information on how the public will get to/from the staging/parking area to the trailhead is given. In the DEIR it is stated under 2.2 ” Ponderosa Homes III, Inc., proposes to develop 28 homes to serve the growing needs of Pleasanton’s expanding workforce and to provide an open space preserve with public access to the Pleasanton Ridge trail system for hikers, bikers, and equestrians. Working with EBRPD, this access would complete the Pleasanton Ridge trail system and would provide public access to trails and open space properties owned by EBRPD that has been envisioned and proposed over the last 30 years.” The EBRPD trail activities and open space preservation activities and the Ponderosa Homes, Inc. activities are tied together! The EIR for the public interaction with the environment, noted above, must be presented before to City Planning Commission approves the project. The trail at the north end of the Pleasanton Ridge Park has recently been constructed with the trailhead near the Vinson/EBRPD driveway in Canyon 3. The trail to/from the staging/parking area to the trailhead has not been located by EBRPD. The public immediately trespassed over private property and a closed area at the north end of the Pleasanton Ridge Park to use the newly constructed north end trail at Canyon 3. They did so by willfully ignoring “closed area”, “private T. Vinson Page 5 of 28 6 CONT 7 8 9 10 11