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1. The removal of any trees or other vegetation associated with development under the Housing Element could result in direct losses of nesting habitat, nests, eggs, or nestlings of special-status birds. 2. The removal of any trees or other vegetation or demolition of unused or underutilized buildings could result in direct losses of roosting special-status bats. 3. The destruction of burrowing owl burrows and grassland habitat providing potentially suitable habitat for burrowing owl could result from the proposed project. 4. Implementation of Mitigation Measures C-1a through C1-d set forth in Table 6-1 of the Final SEIR and listed in the MMRP will ensure that Impact 4.0-1 would be reduced to a less than significant level and is hereby incorporated by reference and described below: 4.0-1 a: Pre-construction Breeding Bird Surveys. The City shall ensure that prior to development of all potential sites for rezoning (Sites 1-4, 6-11, 13, 14, and 16- 21) and each phase of project activities that have the potential to result in impacts on breeding birds, the project applicant shall take the following steps to avoid direct losses of nests, eggs, and nestlings and indirect impacts to avian breeding success: If grading or construction activities occur only during the non-breeding season, between August 31 and February 1, no surveys will be required. Pruning and removal of trees and other vegetation, including grading of grasslands, should occur whenever feasible, outside the breeding season (February 1 through August 31). During the breeding bird season (February 1 through August 31) a qualified biologist will survey activity sites for nesting raptors and passerine birds not more than 14 days prior to any ground-disturbing activity or vegetation removal. Surveys will include all line-of-sight trees within 500 feet (for raptors) and all vegetation (including bare ground)within 250 feet for all other species. Based on the results of the surveys, avoidance procedures will be adopted, if necessary, on a case-by-case basis. These may include construction buffer areas (up to several hundred feet in the case of raptors) or seasonal avoidance. Bird nests initiated during construction are presumed to be unaffected, and no buffer would necessary except to avoid direct destruction of a nest or mortality of nestlings. If pre-construction surveys indicate that nests are inactive or potential habitat is unoccupied during the construction period, no further mitigation is required. Trees and shrubs that have been determined to be unoccupied by nesting or other special-status birds may be pruned or removed. Site(s) affected: Sites 1-4, 6-11, 13, 14, 16-21