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PUD-74 Environmental Checklist Discussion a) The project is located on a vacant, treeless pazcel surrounded by urban development and former quarries. There are no known archaeological or paleontological sites on the subject site. There aze no existing streams, lakes, or other water body/course on the subject property. There were no rare, endangered, or threatened species of flora or fauna found to inhabit the subject property. As noted earlier in this document, the site is considered to be potential foraging habitat area for three special status species, but the development of the site would, at most, result in a relatively small reduction of foraging habitat for three of these species. In addifion, similaz habitat, as well as more suitable foraging habitat are regionally abundant for these three species and the loss of foraging habitat for these three species would be considered less than significant. The site is also potential habitat for the burrowing owl, although there were no burrowing owls or indirect burrowing owl evidence found on the site. In order to avoid possible impacts to burrowing owls (should they occur on site at sometime in the future before the beginning of construction), a condition of the project approval will ensure that the owls are not harmed or injured during construction. Therefore, the project will have a less-than- significant-impact on biological and cultural resources. b) Constructing this project will incrementally increase impacts to certain environmental factors, but the increases would not be cumulatively considerable. Therefore, this would be a less-than-significant-impact. c) The project will not include any activities or uses causing substantial adverse effects on human beings either directly or indirectly or on the environment. The project has been designed to meet the general development standards required by the City of Pleasanton and will incorporate conditions of approval to meet local codes and regulations. The project design and conditions of approval reduces potential impacts to a less-than- significant-impact. . Endnotes California Department of Conservation, Division of Land Resource Protection Alameda County, Pleasanton, Important Farmland, 2003 zTraffic Study for the Proposed Ironwood Active Adult Community in the City of Pleasanton, by TJKIVI Transportation Consultants, dated May 29, 2008 3Geotechnical Investigation, Ponderosa Active Adult Community, by Cornerstone Earth Group, dated January 21, 2008 4Califomia Division of Mines and Geology Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone Map, Dublin Quadrangle, 38