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substantially lessen any significant effects that the project would have on the environment. 15151. Standards for Adequacy of an EIR" An EIR should be prepared with a suj~cient degree of analysis to provide decision-makers with information which enables them to make a decision which intelligently takes account of environmental consequences. ...the sufficiency of an EIR is to be reviewed in the light of what is reasonably feasible. ... The courts have looked not for perfection, but for adequacy, completeness, and a good faith effort at full disclosure. "The above standards have clearly not been met as they apply to Significant Environmental Impact A3: "Some homes appear undesirably prominent." Not only have the standards been met, but staff has refused since the Draft EIR process to make the required "good faith effort at full disclosure. " To that end I have attempted to help out with the following photos: "Photo #1 is from the Visual Figure Reprint Portfolio. It is printed to the same size as in the portfolio that was presented to you. According to the numbers provided by the visual consultant in the appendix to the Draft EIR, this photo is intended to be viewed eight inches from the surface of your eye! No very useful to us senior citizens. "Photo #2 is the same photo blown up so that it can be accurately viewed from 20 inches. The determination of size was verified by going to the site and comparing the size of the tree to the left of the left house with the actual tree. The photo still has some distortion of distance due to the wide angle lens (the houses still appear slightly farther away), but it is as close as I could get on short notice. The house size is still the 6,700 sq. ft. average that the consultant said they used. But it gives ,ore usable detail for you to judge the prominence of these houses. "Photo #3 is a representation of what most of the neighbors to the west of Court 1 will see. This is the view from dozens of houses on Chianti, Brandy, Crespi and Hearst (except Crespi and Hearst are twice as close). "I know you are thinking that the houses appear too big! But I can assure you they are realistically portrayed at 30 feet high. Inside the red circle you will see a 15-foot tall by 10-foot wide story pole that was erected on the fence line before the background photo was taken. The houses were taken from the Oak Grove Residential Prototypes. It is an approximately 7,000- square-foot homes that are proposed for the two front lots under the 20% FAR. The rear three homes are the same size even though they are proposed to be up to 11,243 square feet. "Obviously the colors are not correct. But with my next to zero knowledge of PhotoShop, it was the best I could do to show separate structures. There are close to a hundred houses, windows and yards that will see this view from slightly farther away. The red line shows the elevation of the proposed "mitigation tree planting." Although staff has pointed out that the Fire Marshall has required that the "flammable vegetation material" be kept an additional 100 feet EXCERPTS: PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES, June 27, 2007 Page 11 of 17