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

2.0 LIST OF COMMENTERS AND RESPONSE TO COMMENTS
Response to Comment Letter from Lynn and William Rood
Note: Response numbers correspond to comment numbers labeled in the margin of the
letter.
1) The “Project Location” label on Figure 2-1 should be pointing to the star, which
shows the Project location. This label has been moved and the revised figure is
shown in Section 3 Errata and Revisions in this Final EIR.
2) Fountaingrove Lodge is designated by the City as a Community Care Facility. City
code for such facilities requires one space per three beds. With 235 beds proposed
the Project is required to supply at least 79 parking spaces, significantly less than the
217 spaces being provided for Project residents. For the apartments reserved for
onsite staff, the City Code requires one space and 0.5 visitors spaces per studio/onebedroom
unit and one space and 1.5 visitors spaces for two-bedroom units. Because
there will be eight single-bedroom units and four two-bedroom units, 22 parking
spaces would be required. The Project will comply with this parking requirement.
Therefore, the Project exceeds the overall parking requirements and no significant
impacts to parking would occur.
The Draft EIR breaks the total parking down in several different ways. A summary
of these breakdowns is provided below. A total of 242 parking spaces are planned
for the Project.
Resident/Visitor Parking Total
No. of Spaces
Main Building Covered Spaces 99
Flats Building Covered Spaces 18
Surface spaces (various locations) 89
Resident parking – cottage garages 14
Employee Parking Total 22
Total Spaces 242
3) See Master Response Oak Trees and Oak Woodland. Onsite trees are concentrated in
woodland areas, which were avoided to the degree feasible in Project design. For
this reason, percent of land graded is not equal to percent of trees impacted.
4) The wildlife study conducted by CH2M HILL on March 30, 2007, was a
reconnaissance survey. A reconnaissance survey is a preliminary visual survey
conducted to identify the occurrence and condition of general habitat types as well
as potential species that could be present or otherwise use the surveyed area.
As stated in the Draft EIR, the reconnaissance survey and several other sources of
data (see p. 3-51) were used to identify potential habitat for special-status wildlife
species known to occur in the vicinity of the Study Area and to determine specialstatus
species potential to occur within the Study Area (see p. 3-51). The information
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