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PUD-74 Environmental Checklist II. PROJECT DESCRIPTION Introduction This Initial Study and Negative Declaration (IS/ND) provides the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) environrnental analysis for the proposed PUD-74 project. In accordance with CEQA Section 15070, this initial study may identify potentially significant effects, but: Revisions in the project plans or proposals made by or agreed to by the applicant before a proposed mitigated negative declazation and initial study aze released for public review would avoid the effects or mitigate the effects to a point where clearly no significant effects would occur, and 2. There is no substantial evidence, in light of the whole record before the agency, that the project as revised may have a significant effect on the environment. Backeround Ponderosa Homes' "Ironwood" development was approved by the City Council in 2002, consisting of 175 new single-family homes, 16 duets, a 172-unit senior apartment project, a church/day caze facility, and a public school option/Medium Density Residential (MDR)-senior housing site. Two existing farmhouses along Mohr Avenue were also retained. The senior apartments and most of the single-family homes have been built. The Pleasanton Presbyterian Church recently finished the first phase of its church facility. The Pleasanton Unified School District had afive-year option agreement with Ponderosa Homes to buy the approximately 23-acre public school option/MDR site in the development as a potential school facility. The School District chose not to exercise its option to purchase the property and Ponderosa Homes would like to develop the site as medium-density senior housing as allowed by the Ironwood Planned Unit Development (PUD). Proiect Location The subject site, 1 Reimers Drive, is an approximately 23-acre site located at the eastern side of the Ironwood Development (please see the aerial photograph of the site and surrounding area on the following page, which was taken in 2005). The site abuts the eastern terminus of Reimers Drive. 2