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1.0 INTRODUCTION Live Oak Associates, Inc. (LOA) has prepazed this technical report, which describes the biotic resources of an approximately 23-acre parcel, the proposed Ironwood 55+ Active Community property, located in Pleasanton, Alameda County, California, and evaluates possible impacts to these resources resulting from eventual development of the property. The study site (also referred to as the "project site") is located south of Mohr Avenue, just south of a large water retention basin, and north of a truck yard that is north of Busch Road within the City of Pleasanton, Alameda County, California (Figure 1). The proposed project site is located in the Livermore 7.5' USGS quadrangle in the southeast '/a of the southeast '/< of section 9, the southwest '/4 of the southwest '/4 of section 10, the northwest '/< of the northwest '/o of section 15, and the northeast '/< of the northeast '/4 of section 16, of Township 3 south, Range 1 east. The proposed project is the development of the approximately 23-acre site into anage-55 and over residential community, with all associated infrastructure. The development will consist of 110 detached, single-family homes and a private recreational facility for residents. Access to the project will be available from Reimers Drive, a public street, however, all streets and common azeas within the development will be privately owned and maintained by a homeowners association, including a vehicular gate to be installed at the project entrance and an approximately 4,400 square foot clubhouse, pool and landscaped azeas. To the north lies the unimproved portion of the Mohr Avenue public street right-of--way and Lake I, a former aggregate quarry azea which is owned by the Alameda County Flood Control District (aka Zone 7). To the east are undeveloped lands located within unincorporated Alameda County, but within the City of Pleasanton Sphere of Influence and Urban Growth Boundary. The City of Pleasanton Operation Service Center exists immediately to the south of the project site with other light-industrial and manufacturing businesses further to the south and southeast. Residential properties within the Ironwood Community are to the immediate west, abutting the project site. Therefore, it is necessary to assess what if any biological resources will be affected by site development and whether or not this development will result in significant impacts to these resources as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Ironwood 55+ Biotic Evaluation Live Oak Associates, Inc.