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Environmental Factors Potentially Affected

Biological Resources – Fish or Wildlife Corridors:

• d) Interfere substantially with the movement of any native resident or migratory fish or wildlife species or with established native resident or migratory wildlife corridors, or impede the use of native wildlife nursery sites?

Biological Resources – Local Policies:

• e) Conflict with any local policies or ordinances protecting biological resources, such as a tree preservation policy or ordinance?

Biological Resources – Habitat Conservation Plan:

• f) Conflict with the provisions of an adopted Habitat Conservation Plan, Natural Community Conservation Plan, or other approved local, regional, or state habitat conservation plan?

Cultural Resources – Historical Resources:

• a) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource as defined in § 15064.5?

Cultural Resources – Archaeological Resources:

• b) Cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an archaeological resource pursuant to § 15064.5?

Cultural Resources – Paleontological Resources:

• c) Directly or indirectly destroy a unique paleontological resource or site or unique geologic feature?

Cultural Resources – Human Remains:

• d) Disturb any human remains, including those interred outside of dedicated cemeteries?

Geology and Soils – Earthquake Faults:

• a) Expose people or structures to potential substantial adverse effects, including the risk of loss, injury, or death involving:
• i) Rupture of a known earthquake fault, as delineated on the most recent Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Map issued by the State Geologist for the area or based on other substantial evidence of a known fault?
• ii) Strong seismic ground shaking?
• iii) Seismic-related ground failure, including liquefaction?
• iv) Landslides?

Geology and Soils – Soil Erosion:

• b) Result in substantial soil erosion or the loss of topsoil?

Geology and Soils – Unstable Soil:

• c) Be located on a geologic unit or soil that is unstable, or that would become unstable as a result of the project, and potentially result in on- or off-site landslide, lateral spreading, subsidence, liquefaction or collapse?

Geology and Soils – Expansive Soil:

• d) Be located on expansive soil, as defined in Table 18-1-B of the Uniform Building Code (1994), creating substantial risks to life or property?

Geology and Soils – Septic Tanks:

• e) Have soils incapable of adequately supporting the use of septic tanks or alternative waste water disposal systems where sewers are not available for the disposal of waste water?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Emissions Impact:

• a) Generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment?

Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Regulatory Conflict:

• b) Conflict with an applicable plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Hazard Creation:

• a) Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through the routine transport, use, or disposal of hazardous materials?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Hazardous Materials Release:

• b) Create a significant hazard to the public or the environment through reasonably foreseeable upset and accident conditions involving the release of hazardous materials into the environment?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – School Proximity:

• c) Emit hazardous emissions or handle hazardous or acutely hazardous materials, substances, or waste within one-quarter mile of an existing or proposed school?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Hazardous Materials Sites:

• d) Be located on a site which is included on a list of hazardous materials sites compiled pursuant to Government Code Section 65962.5 and, as a result, would it create a significant hazard to the public or the environment?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Airport Safety:

• e) For a project located within an airport land use plan or, where such a plan has not been adopted, within two miles of a public airport or public use airport, would the project result in a safety hazard for people residing or working in the project area?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Private Airstrip Safety:

• f) For a project within the vicinity of a private airstrip, would the project result in a safety hazard for people residing or working in the project area?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Emergency Response:

• g) Impair implementation of or physically interfere with an adopted emergency response plan or emergency evacuation plan?

Hazards and Hazardous Materials – Wildland Fire Risk:

• h) Expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss, injury or death involving wildland fires, including where wildlands are adjacent to urbanized areas or where residences are intermixed with wildlands?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Water Quality Violation:

• a) Violate any water quality standards or waste discharge requirements?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Groundwater Depletion:

• b) Substantially deplete groundwater supplies or interfere substantially with groundwater recharge such that there would be a net deficit in aquifer volume or a lowering of the local groundwater table level (e.g., the production rate of preexisting nearby wells would drop to a level which would not support existing land uses or planned uses for which permits have been granted)?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Drainage Pattern Alteration:

• c) Substantially alter the existing drainage pattern of the site or area, including through the alteration of the course of a stream or river, in a manner which would result in substantial erosion or siltation on- or off-site?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Drainage Pattern Increase:

• d) Substantially alter the existing drainage pattern of the site or area, including through the alteration of the course of a stream or river, or substantially increase the rate or amount of surface runoff in a manner which would result in flooding on- or off-site?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Runoff Contribution:

• e) Create or contribute runoff water which would exceed the capacity of existing or planned stormwater drainage systems or provide substantial additional sources of polluted runoff?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flood Hazards:

• g) Place housing within a 100-year flood hazard area as mapped on a federal Flood Hazard Boundary or Flood Insurance Rate Map or other flood hazard delineation map?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flood Hazard Structures:

• h) Place within a 100-year flood hazard area structures which would impede or redirect flood flows?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flooding Risks:

• i) Expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss, injury or death involving flooding, including flooding as a result of the failure of a levee or dam?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Inundation:

• j) Inundation by seiche, tsunami, or mudflow?

Land Use and Planning – Community Division:

• a) Physically divide an established community?

Land Use and Planning – Policy Conflict:

• b) Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with jurisdiction over the project (including, but not limited to the general plan, specific plan, local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect?

Land Use and Planning – Habitat Conservation Conflict:

• c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community conservation plan?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Drainage Pattern Alteration:

• c) Substantially alter the existing drainage pattern of the site or area, including through the alteration of the course of a stream or river, in a manner which would result in substantial erosion or siltation on- or off-site?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Drainage Pattern Increase:

• d) Substantially alter the existing drainage pattern of the site or area, including through the alteration of the course of a stream or river, or substantially increase the rate or amount of surface runoff in a manner which would result in flooding on- or off-site?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Runoff Contribution:

• e) Create or contribute runoff water which would exceed the capacity of existing or planned stormwater drainage systems or provide substantial additional sources of polluted runoff?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flood Hazards:

• g) Place housing within a 100-year flood hazard area as mapped on a federal Flood Hazard Boundary or Flood Insurance Rate Map or other flood hazard delineation map?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flood Hazard Structures:

• h) Place within a 100-year flood hazard area structures which would impede or redirect flood flows?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Flooding Risks:

• i) Expose people or structures to a significant risk of loss, injury or death involving flooding, including flooding as a result of the failure of a levee or dam?

Hydrology and Water Quality – Inundation:

• j) Inundation by seiche, tsunami, or mudflow?

Land Use and Planning – Community Division:

• a) Physically divide an established community?

Land Use and Planning – Policy Conflict:

• b) Conflict with any applicable land use plan, policy, or regulation of an agency with jurisdiction over the project (including, but not limited to the general plan, specific plan, local coastal program, or zoning ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect?

Land Use and Planning – Habitat Conservation Conflict:

• c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation plan or natural community conservation plan?

Public Services – Fire Protection:

• a) Fire protection?

Public Services – Police Protection:

• b) Police protection?

Public Services – Schools:

• c) Schools?

Public Services – Parks:

• d) Parks?

Public Services – Other Public Facilities:

• e) Other public facilities?

Recreation – Use of Parks and Recreation Facilities:

• a) Increase the use of existing neighborhood and regional parks or other recreational facilities such that substantial physical deterioration of the facility would occur or be accelerated?

Recreation – Construction or Expansion of Recreational Facilities:

• b) Include recreational facilities or require the construction or expansion of recreational facilities which might have an adverse physical effect on the environment?

Transportation/Traffic – Circulation System Performance:

• a) Conflict with an applicable plan, ordinance or policy establishing measures of effectiveness for the performance of the circulation system, taking into account all modes of transportation including mass transit and non-motorized travel and relevant components of the circulation system, including but not limited to intersections, streets, highways and freeways, pedestrian and bicycle paths, and mass transit?

Transportation/Traffic – Congestion Management Program:

• b) Conflict with an applicable congestion management program, including, but not limited to level of service standards and travel demand measures, or other standards established by the county congestion management agency for designated roads or highways?

Transportation/Traffic – Air Traffic Patterns:

• c) Result in a change in air traffic patterns, including either an increase in traffic levels or a change in location that results in substantial safety risks?

Transportation/Traffic – Hazards Due to Design Features:

• d) Substantially increase hazards due to a design feature (e.g., sharp curves or dangerous intersections) or incompatible uses (e.g., farm equipment)?

Tribal Cultural Resources – Significant Resource:

• a) Listed or eligible for listing in the California Register of Historical Resources, or in a local register of historical resources as defined in Public Resources Code section 5020.1(k)?

Tribal Cultural Resources – Discretionary Determination:

• b) A resource determined by the lead agency, in its discretion and supported by substantial evidence, to be significant pursuant to criteria set forth in subdivision (c) of Public Resources Code Section 5024.1?

Utilities and Service Systems – Wastewater Treatment:

• a) Exceed wastewater treatment requirements of the applicable Regional Water Quality Control Board?

Utilities and Service Systems – Water or Wastewater Treatment Facilities:

• b) Require or result in the construction of new water or wastewater treatment facilities or expansion of existing facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental effects?

Utilities and Service Systems – Storm Water Drainage:

• c) Require or result in the construction of new storm water drainage facilities or expansion of existing facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental effects?

Utilities and Service Systems – Water Supplies:

• d) Have sufficient water supplies available to serve the project from existing entitlements and resources, or are new or expanded entitlements needed?

Utilities and Service Systems – Wastewater Capacity:

• e) Result in a determination by the wastewater treatment provider which serves or may serve the project that it has adequate capacity to serve the project’s projected demand in addition to the provider’s existing commitments?

Utilities and Service Systems – Landfill Capacity:

• f) Be served by a landfill with sufficient permitted capacity to accommodate the project’s solid waste disposal needs?

Utilities and Service Systems – Compliance with Regulations:

• g) Comply with federal, state, and local statutes and regulations related to solid waste?

Mandatory Findings of Significance – Environmental Degradation:

• a) Have the potential to degrade the quality of the environment, substantially reduce the habitat of a fish or wildlife species, cause a fish or wildlife population to drop below self-sustaining levels, threaten to eliminate a plant or animal community, reduce the number or restrict the range of a rare or endangered plant or animal, or eliminate important examples of the major periods of California history or prehistory?

Mandatory Findings of Significance – Cumulative Impacts:

• b) Have impacts that are individually limited, but cumulatively considerable? (“Cumulatively considerable” means that the incremental effects of a project are considerable when viewed in connection with the effects of past projects, the effects of other current projects, and the effects of probable future projects)?

Mandatory Findings of Significance – Adverse Effects:

• c) Have environmental effects which will cause substantial adverse effects on human beings, either directly or indirectly?

Mandatory Findings of Significance