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Findine: Changes or alterations have been required in, or incorporated into, the Project which avoid or substantially lessen the significant environmental effect identified in the Final EIR to a less than significant level. Facts in Support of Finding: The impact will be avoided or reduced based on the following: a. PUD Condition _ requires that the Property Owner prepare apre- jurisdictional wetlands assessment satisfactory for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit review prior to any development activity (including grading) on the project site. The Property Owner must also obtain verification from the Corps regazding its jurisdiction over wetlands and other federally regulated waters on the project site before submitting a grading application to the City. PUD Condition -requires [he Owner to obtain necessary approval of a Clean Water Act Section 404 permit from the Corps, and/or any other governmental agency with Section 404 authority, prior to application for a grading permit from the City to fill jurisdictional wetlands and other federally regulated waters of the U.S. b. PUD Condition states that should the Corps require mitigation for those areas under its jurisdiction to be filled, [he Property Owner will retain a qualified wetland consultant to prepare a detailed Wetlands Mitigation and Monitoring Plan, including identification of avoidance alternatives. Mitigation areas, preferably on-site, must be identified. This condition requires mitigation for the loss of existing seasonal or emergent wetlands and other waters at a replacement ratio required by the Corps, but no less than 1: 1; requires mitigation areas [o achieve equivalent or higher habitat values than those aeeas being replaced; requires Iha[ the Mitigation Plan include site preparation and re-vegetation procedures, an implementation schedule, funding sources, final success criteria, long-term management and maintenance responsibilities, monitoring requirements, and contingency measures. c. The Final EIR notes the habitat value of the stockpond is limited due to the absence of vegetation and its previous contamination; the habitat value of the isolated marshes is "marginal"; and the drainage ditches "cannot be described as providing significant habitat." Creating and/or restoring wetlands elsewhere on the site may exceed or improve existing habitat values. d. Alternatives C and Cl of the GHCBI Project would eliminate residential development in the East Parcel and eliminate impacts to creeks and channels in that area. e. The GHCBI Project Phase I impacts fewer acres of the project site than the Cooperative Plan or the Preferred Plan. Many areas with creeks and channels are undisturbed by Phase I, as these areas aze located within the currently unplanned future public spaces, development of which will be subject to further environmental review. 47