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November 17, 2015 �-WE 011 ISSE EA hS9 iNW. Mr. Mike Meyer Greenbriar Homes Communities 43160 Osgood Road Fremont, CA 94539 an Ecological Consulting Firm SUPT aN fa,L MATERIAL Provided to the City Council After Distribution of Packet Date /. /C SUBJECT: Lund Ranch, Evaluation of project alternatives and anticipated impacts and mitigations Dear Mr. Meyer: As you are well aware, Live Oak Associates, Inc. has been providing Greenbriar Homes ecological consulting services for the Lund Ranch project since 2000. In our professional opinion, the Lund Ranch II PUD -25, 1500 Lund Ranch Road FEIR (2015) appropriately and adequately analyzes all potential impacts to all biological resources from the various options or CEQA alternatives. The footprints for each option (e.g., various road alignments included) occurs entirely within the project site evaluated by the EIR. Also, the EIR suitably characterized existing habitats, appropriately noted the presence or absence of sensitive biological resources, adequately evaluated the impacts of each option as to the extent that these resources were or were not affected (See Figures 4.3 -1 through 4.3 -3 from the EIR) and provided feasible mitigation measures to reduce each impact to a less than significant level. We concur with the findings of the FEIR (2015) that Option 1 (connected only to Lund Ranch Road) is the environmentally superior alternative as it results in fewer impacts to sensitive resources such as the seasonal drainage, the loss of fewer trees, and confines the development to a smaller footprint thereby reducing impacts overall to the regions flora and fauna. While Options 2 and 3 do result in some additional impacts to various resources, the FEIR anticipates such overall affects, and defines feasible mitigation measures that reduces all impacts (including from Options 2 and 3) to a less than significant level. These include the incremental loss of tree resources, impacts to various species habitat, and impacts to waters of the U.S. and State. The feasible mitigations for any incremental impact is accommodated by the mitigation measures outlined for each impact in the EIR. Of particular note, is the mitigation measures associated with impacts to waters of the U.S. and State (e.g., seasonal drainage channel) that clearly defines a feasible strategy for replacing impacts to these resources in -kind. Therefore, impacts to the seasonal drainage channel would be replaced to the extent feasible with newly created seasonal drainage channels that provide equal or greater functions and values when compared with the impacted channel. The FEIR noted that any impacts to waters of the U.S and State that could not be replaced in -kind, would San Jose: 6840 Via Del Oro, Suite 220 • San Jose, CA 95119 • Phone: (408) 224 -8300 • Fax: (408) 224 -1411 Oakhurst: P.O. Box 2697 • 33930 Sierra Way, Suite 8 • Oakhurst, CA 93644 • Phone: (559) 642 -4880 • (559) 642 -4883 Truckee: 11050 Pioneer Trail, Suite 203 • Truckee, CA 96161 • Phone: (530) 214 -8947 www.Ioainc.com