Fountaingrove Environmental Impact Report - City of Santa Rosa ...

2.0 LIST OF COMMENTERS AND RESPONSE TO COMMENTS
Response to Comment Letter from Aegis Living
Note: Response numbers correspond to comment numbers labeled in the margin of the
letter.
1) The Project Objective is correctly written on pages (pp.) iii and 2-2 in the Draft EIR as
“Create approximately 135 community care facility units.” While the Applicant may
propose construction of 136 units, it is not the specific objective of the City to do so.
The Project Components section on page (p.) iii of the Draft EIR has been amended
as follows: Eight Six two-bedroom community care units in the form of duplexes and
detached cottages.
Section 2.1, Background and Project Origin, section on p. 2-1 of the Draft EIR has
been amended as follows: “The Project site is defined as two three lots designated in
the Development Concept Plan as Cluster Residential land use.”
Section 2.4.1, Project Components, description of the Main Building on p. 2-7 of the
Draft EIR has been amended as follows: “The building will be two and three stories
over a lower-level parking structure and will have a maximum height of 49 feet.”
Section 2.4.1, Project Components, description of the Flats on p. 2-7 of the Draft EIR
has been amended as follows: “The two and three-story building will have a
maximum height of 37 feet, with two tower exceptions (elevator tower at 46 feet and
stairway tower at 41 feet) that total 5 percent of the building footprint.”
2) Section 2.4.1, Project Components, description of Offsite Improvements on p. 2-11 of
the Draft EIR has been amended as follows: “A raised crosswalk on Thomas Lake
Harris Drive between the Flats Building and Employee Housing (Lot 3)at Gullane
Drive will be added.”
3) Section 2.4.1, Project Components, description of the Loading/Staging Area and
Trash/Recycling Enclosures on p. 2-11 of the Draft EIR has been amended as
follows: “Trash and recycling enclosures are provided in three major locations: at the
southwest corner of the Care Center, in the covered parking area under the west
wing ofnext to the Main Building and at the northwest corner of the employee
housing. In addition, smaller trash/recycle rooms will be located within the main
building, flats building, and care center. in an area of The total area of all
trash/recycling locations is approximately 810 ft 2.”
4) Comment noted. Requirements for tree replanting are described in more detail in
Mitigation Measure 3.4-1a of the Draft EIR and in Master Response Oak Trees and
Oak Woodland of this Final EIR document. The exact number and size of the
replacement trees and/or other tree mitigation would be determined through the
development permit process and may consist of a variety of tree sizes and types.
5) As noted in Impact 3.4-6 of the Draft EIR, a focused rare plant survey was conducted
on October 5 and 14, 2005, June 16, 2006, and February 16 and April 9, 2007.
However, it should have been noted that these rare plant survey dates corresponded
to the general blooming periods for observing and identifying all but two, not seven,
of the special-status plant species with potential to occur at the Project site, as
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