Final Mitigated Negative Declaration and Response to Comments

X. LAND USE AND PLANNING.
ENVIRONMENTAL SETTING
The project site is located in El Dorado County on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin.
California Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) has a Special Use Permit to operate
facilities and allow recreation on this in-holding which is leased from California State Lands
Commission. The typical land uses surrounding Emerald Bay State Park (SP) are a mixture of
recreation and timberland (State or U.S. Forest Service Land).
For park units within the California State Parks System, DPR creates general plans, which are
broad policy documents that set the direction for park development and management for the
next 20 years or more. Not all parks have general plans, but other DPR guidelines and
directives help to ensure appropriate operations and management are achieved. Other such
guidance documents include the DPR cultural resource management directives and the DPR
Operations Manual 0300, Natural Resources. Both of these documents provide DPR policy
direction, definitions, processes, and procedures to guide the management of the natural and
cultural resources on DPR lands.
Emerald Bay SP does not have a general plan but this project is consistent with the DPR
cultural resource management directives and the DPR Operations Manual 0300, Natural
Resources. The project is also consistent with the El Dorado County General Plan which calls
out invasive species as a management concern (El Dorado County 2004).
Land use in the area will remain generally the same in the future (10-20 years); small towns
surrounded by resource management lands with high quality recreation and a healthy natural
environment.
WOULD THE PROJECT:
a) Physically divide an established community?
b) Conflict with the applicable land use plan, policy,
or regulation of any agency with jurisdiction over
the project (including, but not limited to, a general
plan, specific plan, local coastal program, or zoning
ordinance) adopted for the purpose of avoiding or
mitigating an environmental effect?
c) Conflict with any applicable habitat conservation
plan or natural community conservation plan?
LESS THAN
POTENTIALLY SIGNIFICANT LESS THAN
SIGNIFICANT WITH SIGNIFICANT NO
IMPACT MITIGATION IMPACT IMPACT
Asian Clam Control Project IS/MND
Emerald Bay State Park
California Department of Parks and Recreation
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