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

2.0 LIST OF COMMENTERS AND RESPONSE TO COMMENTS
10) 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. See also Master Response Visual Resources for additional
detail on accuracy of simulations portraying visual impacts; with mitigation, impacts
will be less than significant.
11) As described in Section 2.4.2, the site will be contour-graded so that the buildings
will blend into the hillside to the degree feasible. Visual impact analysis has
determined that the building massing creates good scalar transition (see Draft EIR
p. 3-23). Impacts to aesthetics and views will be less than significant with the
implementation of appropriate landscaping. Therefore, mitigation to reduce building
mass is not required.
12) Draft EIR Section 2.4.2, Project Design Features, discusses how the Project design
includes limited contour grading of portions of the site so that buildings will blend
in with the overall hillside nature of the surrounding area (p. 2-11). See Response to
Comment FRMA-2 and Master Response Land Use Compatibility.
13) See Response to Comment FRMA-2 and Master Response Land Use Compatibility.
The Project will be subject to Design Review by the City for approval of building
design and grading plans.
14) See Master Response Land Use Compatibility and Response to Comment FRMA-9.
15) See Response to Comment Nelson July 17-1 for explanation of trips assumed in the
Traffic Impact Analysis and Emissions Calculation. See Response to Comment
Epperly – 14 for discussion of intersection evaluations.
16) See Master Response Local Traffic.
17) See Master Response Local Traffic.
18) Comment noted. As described in Section 2.4.3, construction is expected to last
approximately 19 months.
19) See Response to Community Comment-31.
20) See Master Response Noise.
21) See Response to Community Comments–3.
22) See Response to Comment Nelson (July 17)–1.
23) Appendix P (Traffic Impact Report) describes the basis for trip generation of the
Project using the traffic engineering profession’s standard source of trip rate data:
Trip Generation, 7th Edition, by the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE). As
shown in Table 8 in the Traffic Impact Report, an estimated 382 non-employee
round-trips per day would be generated. The 382 trips shown for “Visitors” in
Table D-1 in Appendix D are for all resident and visitor trips; the “Visitors” label in
Table D-1 should read “Residents and Visitors.”
As described in Section 3.13.3, the parking proposed for the Project exceeds the
parking required by the City.
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