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Task Group 2 Environmental Review Mundie & Associates will begin the environmental analysis by conducting a reconnaissance of the site and a review of the characteristics of potential uses. These first steps will be followed by an initial appraisal of the types and levels of impacts that may result of implementation of Option 1. Finally, the first draft of the core chapter of the EIR - Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - will be prepared. Task 2.1 Project Description Drawing on the Phase I Specific Plan, the Initial Study, and information supplied by the City's Specific Plan consultants, M&A will draft the EIR Project Description chapter: narrative, graphics, background information relating to the purpose and content of an E1R, and a description of the EIR process. One meeting with staff is assumed for this task. Task 2.2 Scoping the Environmental Review 2.2. i Site Review Subareas of the Phase II Specific Plan site are distinguished from each other by site characteristics that include acreage, configuration, topography, vegetation, drainage, access, and other features. Drawing from the earlier EIRs on the Bemal property, the oppommities and constraints analysis conducted by the Bemal Property Task Fome, and any recent relevant studies by the City and others, M&A will compile an appraisal of environmental conditions pertaining to each subarea for use by the EIR team. 2.2.2 ~se Review Guided by the City's staff and consultants, M&A will work with the list of Option 1 uses to determine (1) the types of impacts associated with each use, (2) the magnitude of such impacts (which relate to both the type of use and its scale), (3) the spatial dimension of such impacts (are they closely contained or would they extend over a wide area?), and (4) the potential for building in mitigation for impacts. It is expected that some uses (most likely the uses that are larger and have higher activity levels) could have many types of impacts including some that are substantial, while others would have a narrower set of impacts and be of lower severity. Again, the types and ranges of impacts will be organized for use by the EIR team. Task 2.3 Initial Draft of Setting, Impacts, and Mitigations Chapter of the EIR An initial draft of this core chapter of the EIR will be completed by the EIR team for review by staff and the Specific Plan consultants. This work will begin with the distribution of the draft project description chapter to the environmental team, with substantive guidance fi:om M&A to team members regarding scope based on the outcomes of Tasks 2.2.1 and 2.2.2. Upon completion of the environmental analysis, the work will be compiled by M&A and presented in the form of a first draft of the Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures chapter of the EIR. Bemal Propert~ Proposal PAase-rISpeci~¢ Plan £flf Page 5 iff=die & Assoclates