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the approved HRA mitigation measure recommendations, if any, to reduce exposure to TACs below BAAQMDs threshold of significance at the time of project approval. b. Outdoor Air Quality. To the maximum extent practicable, individual, and common exterior open space, including playgrounds, patios, and decks, shall either be shielded from the source of air pollution by buildings or otherwise buffered to further reduce air pollution for project occupants. MM 4.B-5. If odor complaints associated with the solid waste transfer station operations are received from future residences of the potential sites for rezoning (Sites 6, 8, 11, and 14), the City shall work with the transfer station owner(s) and operator(s) to ensure that odors are minimized appropriately. MM 4.0-1a. 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 nonbreeding 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 approximately 500 feet (for raptors) and all vegetation (including bare ground) within approximately 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 be 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. MM 4.D-3. In the event that paleontological resources are encountered during the course of development, all construction activity must temporarily cease in the affected area(s) until the uncovered fossils are properly assessed by a qualified Paleontologist and subsequent recommendations for appropriate documentation and conservation are evaluated by the Lead Agency. Excavation or disturbance may continue in other areas of the site that are not reasonably suspected to overlie adjacent or additional paleontological resources. Implementation Measure 1 for MM 4.D-3. Prior to issuance of preliminary grading permits, the project applicant shall incorporate all recommendations provided in the appended Geotechnical Engineering Report into project plans. The Geotechnical