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heritage trees shall be mitigated and how heritage trees will be preserved, per MM BIO-g.2. DEIR, p. 3.3-26 Findings Demonstrating No Need for Recirculation 1. Effect of Concurrent Extension on Biological Resources The Project will disturb the surface of the entire project site regardless of the Concurrent Extension or the Deferred Extension and, like the Draft EIR's analysis of the Existing Specific Plan Alternative (which assumes the Concurrent Extension), pose the same potential impacts to biological resources. The biological resources impacts of the Concurrent Extension are therefore the same as those identified in the Draft EIR. Construction of a second bridge across Arroyo Mocho to accommodate two additional lanes of Stoneridge Drive (effectively widening the first bridge) with the Concurrent Extension is the only exception. However, as stated in the Final EIR, the mitigation measures identified in the Draft EIR for bridge construction impacts (including Bio-2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.2, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 7.1, 8.1, HY-4.1, and NO-2.1, 2.2 and 4.1, and CR-1) would also apply to reduce the impacts of the second Arroyo Mocho bridge to the same less than significant level as the impacts of the first bridge. (Final EIR, page 3-24.) Such measures are adaptive because they are qualitatively based on as-encountered conditions and are not based on prior quantitative assumptions regarding the impact area. Such measures are therefore equally effective mitigation mechanisms for the second bridge. Impacts to San Joaquin spearscale are particularly unlikely because a comparison of Figures 2-3 and 3.3-3 of the Draft EIR indicates that the second bridge (which would be within the right-of-way depicted in Figure 2-3) will be located approximately two to three hundred feet to the west of the nearest San Joaquin spearscale population, and, in the event a population has since moved closer to the site of the bridges, exclusion fencing required by mitigation measure Bio 6.2 will ensure avoidance. The Concurrent Extension therefore will not pose any new significant biological resources impacts or substantially increase the severity of such impacts beyond what is identified in the Draft EIR. Hazards and Hazardous Materials Findings Regarding Significant Impacts 1. Impacts relating to the accidental release of unknown hazardous materials Finding. The City finds that the following mitigation measure is feasible and has been incorporated into the MMRP, thereby mitigating the impact to a less-than- significant level: Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project Environmental Impact Rcport Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations Page 23 of 47