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City of Pleasanton—Additional Housing Sites Rezonings Project <br />Addendum CEQA Guidelines Section 15164 Addendum <br /> <br /> <br />56 <br />Implementing Measures <br />General Plan Conservation and Open Space Program 1.6 states, “Analyze <br />potential impacts on wildlife populations and habitats before developing <br />projects, using the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) process or <br />other processes, as relevant.” To demonstrate full compliance with this <br />program, future development facilitated by the proposed project would be <br />required to implement the following IM. <br />IM BIO-1 Biological Resource Assessment <br />Prior to the approval of any site-specific entitlement, applicants <br />or sponsors of projects shall retain a qualified Biologist and/or <br />Wetland Regulatory Specialist to prepare a Biological Resource <br />Assessment (BRA). <br />The BRA shall include a project-specific analysis of potential <br />impacts on all biological resources, including impacts on special- <br />status species and their habitat, migratory birds and other <br />protected nesting birds, roosting bats, rare plants, sensitive <br />communities, protected waters and wetlands (analyze project- <br />specific compliance with Clean Water Act [CWA], Porter- <br />Cologne Water Quality Act, and Fish and Game Code, as <br />applicable), wildlife corridors and nursery sites. The BRA shall <br />develop and define prescriptive and site-specific measures <br />reducing potential impacts to a less than significant level. These <br />measures shall be included as conditions of approval for the <br />project and be incorporated into building and grading permits <br />issued for demolition and construction. If a water feature is found <br />to be jurisdictional or potentially jurisdictional, the applicant shall <br />comply with the appropriate permitting process with each <br />agency claiming jurisdiction prior to disturbance of the water <br />feature. <br />The project applicant or sponsor shall ensure that, if <br />development of habitat occupied by special-status species, <br />migratory or nesting birds must occur as determined by a <br />qualified Biologist and/or Wetland Regulatory Specialist, species <br />impacts shall be avoided or minimized, and, if required by a <br />regulatory agency or the CEQA process, loss of wildlife habitat or <br />individual plants shall be fully compensated on-site. If on-site <br />mitigation is not feasible in the City’s or regulatory agency’s