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• Installation of new landscaping features to provide screening using topographic, hardscape, additional trees, and bushes. 2.0 Findings Regarding Independent Review and Judgment Each member of the EBMUD Board of Directors was provided access to copies of the MND and the MMRP. The MND was made available for public comment, and no comments were received during the public review period. The Board hereby finds that the MND reflects the Board's independent judgment and analysis. The EBMUD Board also finds that it has independently reviewed, considered and analyzed the Initial Study, the MND, and the MMRP prior to taking any final action with respect to the proposed project. 3.0 Findings Regarding the Project Having received and considered the information contained in the Initial Study, MND, and MMRP, the EBMUD Board of Directors hereby adopts the following findings regarding the Project. 3.1 Findings Regarding Less than Significant Effects A. Aesthetics Impact: Less than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated. Findings: There will be a change to the visual site character due to the removal of the existing 2.25 acre 39th Avenue Reservoir roof structure. The views from the streets and surrounding residences into the site will be improved due to incorporation of measures to landscape the entire reservoir bowl and partially buried tank with grasses, wild flowers, shrubs and trees, to provide continuity with existing site landscaping. Therefore, visual changes resulting from construction of this reservoir project would be minimal and considered Less than Significant. Mitigation measures are identified as Mitigation Measure AES-1 in the MND and MMRP. Facts in Support of Findings: Measure AES-1 requiring civil and landscape plans is hereby incorporated and imposed and shall be monitored in compliance with the MMRP. Because EBMUD has agreed to this mitigation, any aesthetic impacts have been avoided or will be reduced to a Less than Significant level. As a result of these project mitigations, the Project will have Less than Significant aesthetic impacts. B. Air Quality Impact: Less Than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated
Findings: The project would result in maximum daily emissions levels that are below BAAQMD thresholds. Therefore, the project's impact related to construction-period criteria pollutant emissions is Less than Significant. However, BAAQMD recommends implementation of construction mitigation measures to reduce construction-related emissions for all projects, regardless of the significance level of construction-period impacts. These measures are identified as Mitigation Measure AIR-1 in the MND and MMRP. Construction activities can also result in fugitive dust, which contributes to particulate matter levels. While construction-period dust emissions have been estimated, BAAQMD does not have a threshold of significance for fugitive dust impacts, but instead regards fugitive dust impacts to be mitigated if appropriate management practices are implemented. BAAQMD-recommended basic construction management practices are included in Mitigation Measure AIR-1. Consistent with BAAQMD recommendations, the fugitive dust emissions presented in the MMRP have been reduced by 53 percent to reflect implementation of the measures included in Mitigation Measure AIR-1 in the MND and MMRP. Facts in Support of Findings: Measure AIR-1 incorporating the BAAQMD "Basic Construction Mitigation Measures" is hereby incorporated and imposed and shall be monitored in compliance with the MMRP. Because EBMUD has agreed to this mitigation, any air quality impacts have been avoided or will be reduced to a Less than Significant level. As a result of these project circumstances, and by employing this mitigation measure, the Project will have Less than Significant impacts to Air Quality resources. C. Biological Resources Impact: Less Than Significant with Mitigation Incorporated Findings: The Project site is within a developed urban area, and based on the archival research and field surveys undertaken by EBMUD it is unlikely that special status species occur on the Project site or that project construction and operation would interfere substantially with the movement of any resident or migratory fish or wildlife species or with established native resident or migratory corridors. Furthermore, potential impacts to candidate, sensitive, or special status species associated with the Project would be Less than Significant with implementation of the survey measures in Mitigation Measure BIO-1 identified in the MND and MMRP and employment of avoidance and mitigation measures to limit impacts as necessary. Approximately five to ten trees will be removed at the 39 th Avenue Reservoir site in order to replace the existing inlet/outlet pipeline. All other trees at the site will be preserved. The proposed tree removals are necessary to the project and will allow EBMUD to ; maintain water service to the community and will not result in significant impacts
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