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

Response to Comment Letter from Jim Johnson
2.0 LIST OF COMMENTERS AND RESPONSE TO COMMENTS
Note: Response numbers correspond to comment numbers labeled in the margin of the
letter.
1) This comment contains references to multiple resources. Impacts of the Project to oak
trees were evaluated in Section 3.4 of the Draft EIR; see also Master Response Oak
Trees and Oak Woodland. Impacts to oak trees will be mitigated to less than
significant.
Impacts of the Project to visual resources were evaluated in Section 3.1 of the
Draft EIR; see also Master Response Visual Resources. The evaluation included the
size and height of the buildings. For explanation of how Impact 3.13-3 presents an
accurate impact evaluation of the Project’s outdoor lighting plans, see Response to
Community Comments – 13. Impacts to visual resources will be mitigated to less
than significant.
Impacts to air quality, noise, and traffic were evaluated in, respectively, Section 3.3,
Section 3.10, and Section 3.13 of the Draft EIR; see also Master Responses Noise and
Local Traffic. Project impacts to air, noise, and traffic from Project construction and
operation will be mitigated to less than significant.
As described in Section 3.5 of the Draft EIR, a cultural resources survey of the Project
site was completed. Despite the potential for historic occupancy of the site, neither
archival nor field research found evidence of archaeological, historic, or
paleontological resources on the Project site.
2) This comment contains references to multiple resources. Potential impacts associated
with faulting and landslides are discussed in Section 3.6 of the Draft EIR; see also
Master Response Soils and Seismic Mitigation. The nearest active fault is
immediately southwest of the Project site, as shown in Figure 3.6-3 of the Draft EIR.
As described in Impact 3.6-1 in the Draft EIR, recent fault investigation study found
no evidence of recent fault activity; potential impacts from surface rupture of a fault
are less than significant.
No construction activities or Project facilities will be located within 50 feet of Piner
Creek and the creek will not be blocked; see Figure 2-3 in the Draft EIR.
Impacts of the Project to visual resources were evaluated in Section 3.1 of the
Draft EIR; see also Master Response Visual Resources. Impacts to visual resources
will be mitigated to less than significant.
Construction impacts to air quality, as described in Impact 3.3-2 in the Draft EIR,
would be potentially significant; however, with implementation of mitigation to
control PM10 emissions, impacts would be less than significant. It should be noted
that construction is estimated to last 19 months (see Section 2.4.3 in the Draft EIR).
Potential traffic impacts from the Project were evaluated in Section 3.13 of the Draft
EIR; see also Master Response Local Traffic. The large majority of Project traffic will
be automobile traffic from residents and employees; with addition of the traffic light
at Thomas Lake Harris Drive and Fountaingrove Parkway, no significant impacts
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