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Fact: All fire code requirements (sprinklers, <br />fire-retardant materials, clear zones) <br />will be met. <br />Fact: A homeowners' open space management and <br />fire management zone minimizes risks to <br />the project as a whole. <br />Fact: The revised project avoids placing <br />houses in woodland areas of highest fire <br />hazard. <br />6.a.2. Finding: The "No Project" alternative is <br />infeasible and other project alternatives would <br />have similar effects. <br />Fact: See 3.a.1. <br />6.B. Significant Effect: Emergency access roads are dirt <br />and dangerously steep. <br />6.b.1. Finding: The revised project and project <br />conditions substantially lessen this effect. <br />Fact: Emergency access roads are required to <br />be all-weather design with grades not <br />exceeding 20$. <br />POTENTIAL SIGNIFICANT EFFECTS REMAINING AND/OR NOT MITIGATED <br />TO A LEVEL OF INSIGNIFICANCE <br />Despite the measures adopted to avoid or substantially lessen <br />the potentially significant effects, certain effects would <br />occur which would remain significant, including: <br />1. alteration of existing land use and loss of rural <br />fringe along Foothill Road; <br />2. change in views of minor ridge through introduction of <br />houses; <br />3. short-term visual impact of grading; <br />4. removal of heritage-sized and other trees; <br />5. introduction of night lighting on lower Pleasanton Ridge; <br />and <br />6. introduction of 22 new residences in an area of geologic <br />risk due to slopes/natural instabilities. <br />-10- <br />