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analysis initially conducted pertains. It includes three graphics that present the general location of the project, the site plan, and the development plan. Figure 3 shows not only where all the pazcel lines are but some of the details of project development that aze of importance, including the new water tank and the existing Kottinger water tank, the drainage features associated with the different segments of the project, a 6.5-acre park, and "Street A," which is the main street of the project and a continuation of Hearst Drive. The five courts are public roads up to the end of the court, which aze continued along private drives if they go farther. Chapter 3 describes the process of preparing and considering an EIR under Califomia law. This is often called the CEQA process under the State law on which it is based. At the end of the Chapter are a couple of pages describing the organization of the EIR as a whole, and in particular, the organization of Chapter 4. Chapter 4 is the main chapter in the Draft EIR and includes the setting, impacts, and mitigation measures. The topics covered aze those that are included in the California CEQA and run from A to P - "A" is "Aesthetics and Visual," and it goes down to "P" which is "Utilities and Services." Ms. Mundie noted that Chapter 4 contains detail for each topic and includes a framework for analysis as well as a description of the scoping comments made on this topic that were provided to them; a discussion of this setting as it relates to that individual topic, with the focus on the site. Ms. Mundie continued that the third category in this chapter is the key project chazacteristics, the impacts, and the mitigation measure. The focus here is on the project -what the project will do to the site -and is discussed under several different categories: (1) significance criteria, which mostly come from the California CEQA guidelines and provide a kind of bellwether indicator of whether a project has environmental impacts or not. This is the standazd for determining whether impacts would exist and a way of making those determinations so that we aze not reinventing significance criteria or going astray from what the State law intended. (2) impacts, which all have a topic letter and then an impact number; for example, "A" is the "Aesthetics" section, and "Al" would be the fast impact under "Aesthetics." At the end of each topical section is a Summary Table that lists both the impacts and the mitigation measures for that topic. Ms. Mundie noted that "Aesthetics" has a map showing the views of the site under the existing conditions. Each one of the little dots there has an arrow associated with it. The dot is the point from which the photograph was taken, and the arrow shows the dtrection in which the photograph was taken. The maps show both close-in views the views that were taken from more distant locations. Ms. Mundie explained the process of doing visual simulations which involves a number of different steps. First of all, the selection was made of the viewpoint locations themselves by undertaking a general viewshed analysis. A viewshed analysis is a computer-based topography of all the lands between the viewpoint and the project and beyond, so what the 10