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PROPOSED ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT FINDINGS Potential Significant Environmental Effects 1. Effect: Proposed residential development on portions of the site are potentially unsuitable for development. Finding: Conditions of the project relating to additional geotechnical studies substantially lessen this impact. Fact: Final development plan approval requires completion of further geotechnical studies, as well as site specific soils analysis for hillside custom lots; no development allowed if found "unstable." 2. Effect: Proposed streets and utilities traversing portions of the site with potential unstable soils. Finding: Conditions of the project relating to soils and geotechnical studies will substantially lessen the impact. Fact: Conditions No. 2 and 10, require further geotechnical and soils studies prior to final development plan approval and improvement plan approval by the City. Finding: Alternatives to eliminating routing streets and utilities across these areas are socially infeasible. Fact: The upper developable hillside areas can only be reached by traversing a portion of the site designated potentially unstable. Finding: The City desires upper-end and luxury housing like that proposed on hilly sites and is willing to allow such development when it meets a level of risk acceptable to the City. Fact: The City's acceptable risk policy requires looped streets and utilities installed to minimize risks in hilly areas, requiring unstable areas. be crossed but provided dual "feeds." 3. Effect: Hillside development generally carries associated risks, even if constrained to stable areas. Finding: The project has been revised by removing the proposed townhouses, reducing the overall risk by reducing the number of dwelling units in the hilly area. Fact: The project was revised to eliminate townhouses on the hilly portions of the site. Finding: Mitigation measures to remove all hillside lots are infeasible due to social considerations. EXHiBiT A _ -1 _