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Ponderosa Homes at 6900 Valley Trails Drive <br /> Initial Study and Negative Declaration <br /> 5.15. RECREATION <br /> Less Than <br /> Significant <br /> Potentially Impact With Less Than <br /> Significant Mitigation Significant No <br /> Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact <br /> Would the project: <br /> a) Would the project increase the use of existing X <br /> neighborhood and regional parks or other <br /> recreational facilities such that substantial physical <br /> deterioration of the facility would occur or be <br /> accelerated? <br /> b) Does the project include recreational facilities or X <br /> require the construction or expansion of recreational <br /> facilities, which might have an adverse physical <br /> effect on the environment? <br /> ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING <br /> The project site abuts the existing Valley Trails Park, which is a linear park, providing <br /> a tot lot, trails, and open space within the Valley Trails Neighborhood. <br /> DISCUSSION <br /> a) The project would result in an incremental increase in the use of existing <br /> neighborhood and regional parks and other recreational facilities, in particular <br /> the adjacent Valley Trails Park. However, the addition of 36 households is not <br /> expected to result in substantial physical deterioration of the facility. Moreover, <br /> the project is required to contribute a per unit Public Facilities Fee which helps <br /> to fund capital improvements to public facilities, including parks. However, the <br /> applicant will receive some fee credit(s) due to the proposed improvements <br /> within the park that the applicant is proposing. As a result, the potential impact <br /> would be less than significant. <br /> b) The project includes two private landscape areas near the cul-de-sacs, totaling <br /> approximately 0.24 acre, which would be maintained by the future <br /> homeowners/maintenance association. The project would also provide and <br /> maintain two paved 5-foot wide pedestrian/bicycle pathway connections <br /> from the ends of the two cul-de-sacs to the existing Valley Trails Park pathway. <br /> Finally, the project would dedicate an approximately 712-square-foot piece of <br /> land to the City, thereby expanding the existing Valley Trails Park. The project <br /> applicant would also install a new tot-lot and landscape improvements (i.e., <br /> turf removal and replacement with groundcover at specified locations) within <br /> Valley Trails Park. The landscape replacement is consistent with the Valley Trails <br /> 39 <br />