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6. Whether adequate public safety measures have been incorporated into the design of the proposed development plan: The private street provides access to and from the site and has adequate turn-around area to serve fire trucks. The new homes would be equipped with automatic residential fire sprinklers. The homes would be required to meet the requirements of applicable City codes, and State of California energy and accessibility requirements. The conditions of approval require the applicant to prepare an open space management plan for the non-developed portion of the site to reduce natural hazards. Therefore, staff believes that this finding can be made. 7. Whether the proposed development plan conforms to the purposes of the PUD District: The proposed PUD Development Plan conforms to the purposes of the PUD district. One of these purposes is to allow for creative project design that takes into account site constraints. Staff believes that the proposed project would help to implement the purposes of the PUD ordinance by allowing for flexible site standards on the site, allowing units to be clustered in the flatter portions of the site near Dublin Canyon Road while protecting Dublin Creek and approximately 9 acres of open space. Staff believes that through the PUD process the proposed project has provided the applicant and the City with a development plan that optimizes the use of this site in a reasonably sensitive manner. Therefore, staff believes that this finding can be made. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice of this application was sent to surrounding property owners and tenants within a 1,000-foot radius of the site. Staff has provided the location and noticing maps as Exhibit F for reference. At the time of the report publication, Staff received one email expressing various questions and concerns regarding the proposed project. The email is included within Exhibit E for reference. Any additional public comments received after publication of this report will be forwarded to the Commission. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT A Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR) was certified for the Housing Element update in 2011. The project site was part of Housing Element update, which assumed that the General Plan land use designation of Rural Density Residential and the Zoning Designation of A (Agriculture) District allowed for 1 dwelling unit per 5 acres of land. The proposed development is therefore substantially consistent with the 2011 Housing Element update, which was analyzed in the SEIR. The SEIR provided analysis at a programmatic level. In order to provide additional project-level analysis, the applicant provided an additional Arborist Report/Tree, Biological Resources Analysis, Geotechnical Investigation, Noise Assessment Study, and Health Risk Assessment Memorandum. The assessments identified measures sufficient to reduce project impacts to a less-than-significant level, and these measures are incorporated as conditions of approval. In addition, the technical studies identified no new information or changed circumstances that would require supplemental environmental review, pursuant to California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Section 15162. Therefore, no environmental document accompanies this report. PUD-114, 11300 Dublin Canyon Road Planning Commission Page 14 of 15