Planning Commission Meeting Agenda Packet (1)

Hidden Canyon Project Draft EIR Planning Commission 3 of 6 Per CEQA Guidelines Section 15370, mitigation refers to: a) Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action. b) Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation. c) Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the impacted environment. d) Reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance operations during the life of the action. e) Compensating for the impact by replacing or providing substitute resources or environments, including through permanent protection of such resources in the form of conservation easements. Chapter 3, Environmental Impact Analysis, of the DEIR includes the analysis for each potentially affected environmental resource, along with proposed mitigation measures where applicable. According to the results of this analysis, the DEIR has identified that the proposed project would result in less-than-significant impacts or no impact to the following environmental resources: • Air Quality; • Energy; • Greenhouse Gas Emissions; • Hydrology and Water Quality; • Land Use and Planning; • Noise; • Public Services; • Recreation; • Transportation; • Utilities and Service Systems. The DEIR has identified that the proposed project would result in impacts that could be mitigated to a less-than-significant level to the following environmental resources: • Aesthetics, Light, and Glare • Biological Resources; • Cultural Resources and Tribal Cultural Resources; • Geology, Soils, and Seismicity; • Hazards and Hazardous Materials; • Wildfire. The mitigation measures necessary to reduce these impacts to a less than significant level are identified in the applicable chapters for each resource section in Chapter 3 of the DEIR, as well as in Table ES-1: Executive Summary Matrix, in the Executive Summary of the DEIR. These