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Draft Environmental Impact Report Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan shared with other adjacent agricultural uses, Composting sites and support buildings for equipment storage would be sensitively located out of public view, to the extent feasible, b. Significance Criteria Significance criteria for the proposed project's impacts on agriculture are based on criteria set forth in CEQA Guidelines (Appendix G (Item II (a); Item II (b) is not applicable because there is no existing agricultural zoning at the site and no contract under the Williamson Act, and Item II (c) is not applicable because development of the site would not affect other agricultural lands, in view of the fact that the surroundings are urban), Impacts on agricultural resources would be significant: [If the project would] convert Prime Farmland, Unique Farmland. or Farmland of Statewide Importance to non-agricultural use, The conversion offarmland on the Bernal Property to urban uses, although consistent with local planning documents (Pleasanton's 1996 General Plan and Alameda County's East County Area Plan/ECAP), was found to be a significant adverse project and cumulative impact of Bernal Property development. (See Bernal Property Phase I EIR, p. 61,) This impact (A3) was found not mitigatable, c. Impacts The development of the remaining Bernal Property to recreational, institutional, public, and open space uses would eliminate use of those lands in commercial agricultural production, Agriculture may remain as an interim use pending development of other planned uses, and some agricultural use may remain as a permanent use, primarily for recreational and educational agriculture. The potential mitigation measures are built into the Plan, Lands remaining in agricultural would, however, be a minority of the site, The conversion of the agricultural resources at the site to urban use is an impact of the project, It is also a cumulative impact, Impact B1. Conversion of Bernal Property lands to urban uses would have an adverse impact on agricultural resources, both for the project (the S cific Plan and cumulativel . This impact is significant (see Significance Criterion (1)), d. Mitigation Measures Impact Bl, Conversion of Bernal Property lands to urban uses would have an adverse impact on agricultural resources, both for the project (the Specific Plan) and cumulatively, No practical project mitigation of impacts on agricultural resources is available consistent with the purposes of the Specific Plan, Therefore, the impact is significant and unavoidable, both on a project basis and on a cumulative basis, 48