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CSSF
ITY OF OUTH AN RANCISCO
2015-2023HEU
OUSING LEMENT PDATE
Initial Study/Negative Declaration
February 2015
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Table of Contents
Project Description ........................................................................................................... 1
1Background .................................................................................................................. 3
1.1Housing Element Overview ............................................................................................. 7
1.2City of South San Francisco Housing Needs ............................................................... 7
1.3Potential Housing Opportunity Sites ............................................................................. 8
1.4Housing Element Organization .................................................................................... 12
1.5Required Approvals ........................................................................................................ 13
2Determination ........................................................................................................... 14
2.1Environmental Factors Potentially Affected .............................................................. 14
2.2Determination .................................................................................................................. 14
3Environmental Checklist .......................................................................................... 16
3.1Aesthetics .......................................................................................................................... 17
3.2Agriculture Resources ................................................................................................... 18
3.3Air Quality ........................................................................................................................ 21
3.4Biological Resources ....................................................................................................... 23
3.5Cultural Resources ......................................................................................................... 26
3.6Geology and Soils ............................................................................................................ 27
3.7Greenhouse Gas Emissions .......................................................................................... 28
3.8Hazards and Hazardous Materials ............................................................................... 31
3.9Hydrology and Water Quality ..................................................................................... 34
3.10Land Use and Planning ................................................................................................... 36
3.11Mineral Resources ........................................................................................................... 37
3.12Noise .................................................................................................................................. 38
3.13Population and Housing ................................................................................................. 40
3.14Public Services .................................................................................................................. 42
3.15Recreation ......................................................................................................................... 43
3.16Transportation and Circulation ................................................................................... 45
3.17Utilities and Service Systems ........................................................................................ 47
3.18Mandatory Findings of Significance .............................................................................. 49
4References ................................................................................................................. 51
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List of Figures
Figure 1: Planning Area ......................................................................................................................................5
List of Tables
Table 1: Regional Housing Needs Allocation, 2014-2022 .........................................................................8
Table 2: Housing Opportunity Sites in Transit Village Area .................................................................. 10
Table 3: Housing Opportunity Sites in Downtown South San Francis ........................................... 11
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Project Description
PROJECT TITLE
LEAD AGENCY NAME AND ADDRESS:
CONTACT PERSON AND PHONE NUMBER:
PROJECT LOCATION
ME AND ADDRESS
GENERAL PLAN DESIGNATION
ZONING
PROJECT DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
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1Background
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1.1Housing Element Overview
1.2City of South San Francisco Housing Needs
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Table 1: Regional Housing Needs Allocation, 2014-2022
Income Category Household Income Limits for RHNA 2014-2022 Percent of Total
4-Person Household
Less than $33,950
Extremely Low (less than 30%
AMI) 282 15%
Very Low (30-49% AMI) $33,951-$56,550 283 15%
Low (50-79% AMI) $56,551-$90,500 281 15%
Moderate (80-120% AMI) $90,501-$123,600 313 17%
Above Moderate (over 120%
AMI) Over $123,600 705 38%
Total Units 1,864 100%
Notes:
1. The 2013 San Mateo County median for a family of four was $103,0
Source: ABAG, 2014; Dyett & Bhatia, 2014.
1.3Potential Housing Opportunity Sites
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TRANSIT VILLAGE AREA
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Table 2: Housing Opportunity Sites in Transit Village Area
Estimated Actual
Maximum
Dwelling Units Dwelling Units
Site Acres Existing Use Zoning Per Acre Per Acre Units
1 0.1 Vacant SFR TV-RM 30 30 3
1 1.5 Vacant TV-RM 30 30 44
Site 1 Total 1.6 47
2 1.3 Vacant motel ECR/C-MXH 80 80 104
2 1.3 Vacant ECR/C-MXH 80 80 104
2 3.1 Lumber yard ECR/C-MXH 80 80 248
Site 2 Total 5.7 456
3-Block A Vacant ECR/C-RH 120 108 419
3-Block B Vacant ECR/C-MXH 80 76 43
3-Block C Vacant ECR/C-MXH 80 72 94
Commercial,
3-Block D ECR/C-MXH 80 64 139
vacant
Commercial,
3-Block E vacant ECR/C-MXH 80 54 150
3-Block H Commercial ECR/C-MXH 80 70 223
3-Block J Commercial ECR/C-MXH 80 39 45
Site 3 Total 1 7.6 1,113
4 0.3 Utility RH-30 30 23 7
Site 4 Total 0.3 7
5 1.7 Commercial ECR/C-MXH 80 64 108
Site 5 Total 1.7 108
Total 16.9 1,731
Notes:
1. Includes blocks A, B, C, D, E, H, and J from the Focus Area of the El Camino Real/Chestnut Area Plan. Buildout
assumptions reflect those in the Area Plan.
Source: City of South San Francisco, 2015; Dyett & Bhatia, 2015.
DOWNTOWN SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO
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Table 3: Housing Opportunity Sites in Downtown South San Francisco
Estimated Actual
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Maximum
Dwelling
Dwelling
Units Per Units Per Total
Site Acres Existing Use Zoning Acre Acre Units
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Linden Neighborhood
6 0.3 Vacant 60 48 14
Center
Site 6 Total 0.3 14
Linden Neighborhood
7 0.3 Parking Lot Center 60 48 14
Site 7 Total 0.3 14
8 0.3 Vacant Downtown Transit Core 100 80 24
Site 8 Total 0.3 24
Downtown Residential
9 0.3 Parking Lot 80 64 19
Core
Site 9 Total 0.3 19
Downtown Residential
10 0.3 Parking Lot Core 80 64 19
Downtown Residential
10 0.1 Parking Lot 80 64 6
Core
Downtown Residential
10 0.1 Parking Lot Core 80 64 6
Downtown Residential
10 0.1 Parking Lot Core 80 64 6
Site 10 Total 0.6 38
11 0.3 Office Building Downtown Transit Core 100 80 24
11 0.2 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80 16
11 0.1 Office Building Downtown Transit Core 100 80 8
11 0.2 Retail Downtown Transit Core 100 80 16
Site 11 Total 0.8 64
12 0.1 Parking Lot Grand Avenue Core 80 64 6
12 0.1 Parking Lot Grand Avenue Core 80 64 6
12 0.2 Parking Lot Grand Avenue Core 80 64 13
Commercial
12 0.1 Grand Avenue Core 80 64 6
Building
12 0.1 Vacant Grand Avenue Core 80 64 6
12 0.2 Parking Lot Grand Avenue Core 80 64 13
Site 12 Total 0.8 51
Vacant Fire
13 0.2 Station Downtown Transit Core 100 80 16
13 0.3 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80 24
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Table 3: Housing Opportunity Sites in Downtown South San Francisco
Estimated Actual
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Maximum
Dwelling Dwelling
Units Per Units Per Total
Site Acres Existing Use Zoning Acre Acre Units
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Site 13 Total 0.5 40
Commercial
14 0.5 Downtown Transit Core 100 80 41
Building
Site 14 Total 0.5 41
15 0.4 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80 32
Site 15 Total 0.4 32
16 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80
16 Commercial Downtown Transit Core 100 80
16 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80
Site 16 Total 1.1 85
17 0.2 Parking Lot Downtown Transit Core 100 80 16
Site 17 Total 0.2 16
Total 6.1 438
Notes:
1. Numbers may not sum precisely due to rounding.
2. Estimated actual density does not include density bonuses inceachievable.
Source: City of South San Francisco, 2014; Dyett & Bhatia, 2014.
1.4Housing Element Organization
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1.5Required Approvals
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO CITY COUNCIL
OTHER AGENCIES
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2Determination
2.1Environmental Factors Potentially Affected
Aesthetics Agriculture Air Quality
Biological Resources Cultural Resources Geology/Soils
Greenhouse Gases Hazards & Hazardous Materials Hydrology/Water Quality
Land Use & Planning Energy & Mineral Resources Noise
Population & Housing Public Services Recreation
Transportation & Circulation Utilities/Service Systems Mandatory Findings of
Significance
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3Environmental Checklist
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3.1Aesthetics
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant
Issues No Impact
Impact Incorporated Impact
a. Have a substantial adverse effect
on a scenic vista?
b. Substantially damage scenic
resources, including, but not
limited to, trees, rock
outcroppings, and historic
buildings within a State scenic
highway?
c. Substantially degrade the existing
visual character or quality of the
site and its surroundings?
d. Create a new source of
substantial light or glare which
would adversely affect day or
nighttime views in the area?
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3.2Agriculture Resources
Potentially Potentially Significant Less-Than-
Significant With Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Convert Prime Farmland, Unique
Farmland, or Farmland of Statewide
Importance (Farmland), as shown on
the maps prepared pursuant to the
Farmland Mapping Program of the
California Resources Agency, to non-
agricultural use?
b. Conflict with existing zoning for
agricultural use, or a Williamson Act
contract?
c. Conflict with existing zoning for, or
cause rezoning of, forest land (as
defined in Public Resources Code
section 12220(g)), timberland (as
defined by Public Resources Code
section 4526), or timberland zoned
Timberland Production (as defined by
Government Code section 51104(g))?
d. Result in the loss of forest land or
conversion of forest land to non-
forest use?
e. Involve other changes in the existing
environment which, due to their
location or nature, could result in
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Potentially Potentially Significant Less-Than-
Significant With Mitigation Significant
No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
conversion of Farmland, to non-
agricultural use or conversion of
forest land to non-forest use.
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3.3Air Quality
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant
Issues No Impact
Impact Incorporated Impact
a. Conflict with or obstruct
implementation of the applicable
air quality plan?
b. Violate any air quality standard or
contribute substantially to an
existing or projected air quality
violation?
c. Result in a cumulatively
considerable net increase of any
criteria pollutant for which the
project region is non-attainment
under an applicable federal or
State ambient air quality standard
(including releasing emissions
which exceed quantitative
thresholds for ozone precursors)?
d. Expose sensitive receptors to
substantial pollutant
concentrations?
e. Create objectionable odors
affecting a substantial number of
people?
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3.4Biological Resources
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Have a substantial adverse effect, either
directly or through habitat modifications, on
any species identified as a candidate,
sensitive, or special status species in local or
regional plans, policies, or regulations, or by
the California Department of Fish and
Game or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service?
b. Have a substantial adverse effect on any
riparian habitat or other sensitive natural
community identified in local or regional
plans, policies, or regulations or by the
California Department of Fish and Game or
US Fish and Wildlife Service?
c. Have a substantial adverse effect on
federally protected wetlands as defined by
Section 404 of the Clean Water Act
(including, but not limited to, marsh, vernal
pool, coastal, etc.) through direct removal,
filling, hydrological interruption, or other
means?
d. Interfere substantially with the movement
of any resident or migratory fish or wildlife
species or with established resident or
migratory wildlife corridors, or impede the
use of wildlife nursery sites?
e. Conflict with any local policies or
ordinances protecting biological resources,
such as a tree preservation policy or
ordinance?
f. Conflict with the provisions of an adopted
Habitat Conservation Plan, Natural
Conservation Community Plan, or other
approved local, regional, or State habitat
conservation plan?
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3.5Cultural Resources
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Cause a substantial adverse change in the
significance of a historical resource as
defined in Section 15064.5?
b. Cause a substantial adverse change in the
significance of a unique archaeological
resource pursuant to Section 15064.5?
c. Directly or indirectly destroy a unique
paleontological resource on site or
unique geologic features?
d. Disturb any human remains, including
those interred outside of formal
cemeteries?
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3.6Geology and Soils
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Expose people or structures to potential
substantial adverse effects, including the risk
of loss, injury, or death involving:
i. Rupture of a known earthquake fault,
as delineated on the most recent Alquist
- Priolo Earthquake Fault Zoning Map
issued by the State Geologist for the area
based on other substantial evidence of a
known fault?
ii. Strong seismic ground shaking?
iii. Seismic-related ground failure,
including liquefaction?
iv. Landslides?
b. Result in substantial soil erosion or the loss
of topsoil?
c. Be located on a geologic unit or soil that is
unstable, or that would become unstable as
a result of the project, and potentially result
in on- or off-site landslide, lateral spreading,
subsidence, liquefaction or collapse?
d. Be located on expansive soil, as defined in
Table 18-1-B of the Uniform Building Code
(1994), creating substantial risks to life or
property?
e. Have soils incapable of adequately
supporting the use of septic tanks or
alternative wastewater disposal systems
where sewers are not available for the
disposal of wastewater?
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3.7Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant
Issues No Impact
Impact Incorporated Impact
a. Generate greenhouse gas emissions,
either directly or indirectly, that may have
a significant impact on the environment?
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Potentially
Significant With
Potentially Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact No Impact
b. Conflict with any applicable plan, policy,
or regulation adopted for the purpose of
reducing the emissions of greenhouse
gases?
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3.8Hazards and Hazardous Materials
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Create a significant hazard to the public or the
environment through the routine transport,
use, or disposal of hazardous materials?
b. Create a significant hazard to the public or the
environment through reasonably foreseeable
upset and accident conditions involving the
likely release of hazardous materials into the
environment?
c. Emit hazardous emissions or handle
hazardous or acutely hazardous materials,
substances, or waste within one-quarter mile
of an existing or proposed school?
d. Be located on a site which is included on a list
of hazardous materials sites compiled
pursuant to Government Code Section
65962.5 and, as a result, would it create a
significant hazard to the public or the
environment?
e. For a project located within an airport land
use plan or, where such a plan has not been
adopted, within two miles of a public airport
or public use airport, would the project result
in a safety hazard for people residing or
working in the project area?
f. For a project within the vicinity of a private
airstrip, would the project result in a safety
hazard for people residing or working in the
project area?
g. Impair implementation of or physically
interfere with an adopted emergency
response plan or emergency evacuation plan?
h. Expose people or structures to the risk of
loss, injury or death involving wildland fires,
including where wildlands are adjacent to
urbanized areas or where residences are
intermixed with wildlands?
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3.9Hydrology and Water Quality
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Violate any water quality standards or waste
discharge requirements?
b. Substantially deplete groundwater supplies or
interfere substantially with groundwater
recharge such that there would be a net
deficit in aquifer volume or a lowering of the
local groundwater table level (i.e., the
production rate of pre-existing nearby wells
would drop to a level which would not
support existing land uses or planned uses for
which permits have been granted)?
c. Substantially alter the existing drainage
pattern of the site or area, including through
the alteration of the course of a stream or
river, in a manner which would result in
substantial erosion or siltation on- or off-site?
d. Substantially alter the existing drainage
pattern of the site or area, including through
the alteration of the course of a stream or
river, or substantially increase the rate or
amount of surface runoff in a manner which
would result in flooding on- or off-site?
e. Create or contribute runoff water which
would exceed the capacity of existing or
planned stormwater drainage systems or
provide substantial additional sources of
polluted runoff?
f. Otherwise substantially degrade water quality?
g. Place housing within a 100-year floodplain, as
mapped on a federal Flood Hazard Boundary
or Flood Insurance Rate Map or other flood
hazard delineation map?
h. Place within a 100-year floodplain structures
which would impede or redirect flood flows?
i. Expose people or structures to a significant
risk of loss, injury or death involving flooding,
including flooding as a result of the failure of a
levee or dam.
j. Inundation by seiche, tsunami, or mudflow?
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3.10Land Use and Planning
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Physically divide an established community?
b. Conflict with any applicable land use plans,
policies, or regulations of an agency with
jurisdiction over the project (including, but
not limited to the general plan, specific plan,
local coastal program, or zoning ordinance)
adopted for the purpose of avoiding or
mitigating on environmental effect?
c. Conflict with any applicable habitat
conservation plan or natural community
conservation plan?
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3.11Mineral Resources
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant
No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Result in the loss of availability of a known
mineral resource that would be of value to
the region and the residents of the state?
b. Result in the loss of availability of a locally
important mineral resource recovery site
delineated on a local general plan, specific
plan, or other land use plan?
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3.12Noise
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Exposure of persons to or generation of noise
levels in excess of standards established in the
local general plan or noise ordinance, or
applicable standards of other agencies?
b. Exposure of persons to or generation of
excessive groundborne vibration or
groundborne noise levels?
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Potentially
Significant With
Potentially Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
c. A substantial permanent increase in ambient
noise levels in the project vicinity above levels
existing without the project?
d. A substantial temporary or periodic increase in
ambient noise levels in the project vicinity
above levels existing without the project?
e. For a project located within an airport land use
plan or, where such a plan has not been
adopted, within two miles of a public airport or
public use airport, would the project expose
people residing or working in the project area
to excessive noise levels?
f. For a project within the vicinity of a private
airstrip, would the project expose people
residing or working in the project area to
excessive noise levels?
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3.13Population and Housing
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Induce substantial population growth in an
area, either directly (for example, by
proposing new homes and businesses) or
indirectly (e.g., through projects in an
undeveloped area or extension of major
infrastructure)?
b. Displace substantial numbers of existing
housing, necessitating the construction of
replacement housing elsewhere?
c. Displace substantial numbers of people,
necessitating the construction of replacement
housing elsewhere?
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3.14Public Services
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Fire protection?
b. Police protection?
c. Schools?
d. Parks?
e. Other public facilities?
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3.15Recreation
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Would the project increase the use of existing
neighborhood and regional parks or other
recreational facilities such that substantial
physical deterioration of the facility would
occur or be accelerated?
b. Does the project include recreational facilities
or require the construction or expansion of
recreational facilities which might have an
adverse physical effect on the environment?
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3.16Transportation and Circulation
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Conflict with an applicable plan, ordinance or
policy establishing measures of effectiveness for
the performance of the circulation system,
taking into account all modes of transportation
including mass transit and non-motorized travel
and relevant components of the circulation
system, including but not limited to
intersections, streets, highways and freeways,
pedestrian and bicycle paths, and mass transit?
b. Conflict with an applicable congestion
management program, including, but not limited
to level of service standards and travel demand
measures, or other standards established by the
county congestion management agency for
designated roads or highways?
c. Result in a change in air traffic patterns,
including either an increase in traffic levels or a
change in location that results in substantial
safety risks?
d. Substantially increase hazards due to a design
features (e.g., sharp curves or dangerous
intersections) or incompatible uses (e.g., farm
equipment)?
e. Result in inadequate emergency access?
f. Conflict with adopted policies, plans, or
programs regarding public transit, bicycle, or
pedestrian facilities, or otherwise decrease the
performance or safety of such facilities?
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3.17Utilities and Service Systems
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues
Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Exceed wastewater treatment requirements of
the applicable Regional Water Quality Control
Board?
b. Require or result in the construction of new
water or wastewater treatment facilities or
expansion of existing facilities, the construction
of which could cause significant environmental
effects?
c. Require or result in the construction of new
storm water drainage facilities or expansion of
existing facilities, the construction of which
could cause significant environmental effects?
d. Have sufficient water supplies available to serve
the project from existing entitlements and
resources, or are new or expanded
entitlements needed?
e. Result in a determination by the wastewater
treatment provider which serves or may serve
the project that it has adequate capacity to
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f. Be served by a landfill with sufficient permitted
waste disposal needs?
g. Comply with federal, state, and local statutes
and regulations related to solid waste?
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3.18Mandatory Findings of Significance
Potentially
Potentially Significant With Less-Than-
Significant Mitigation Significant No
Issues Impact Incorporated Impact Impact
a. Does the project have the potential to degrade
the quality of the environment, substantially
reduce the habitat of a fish or wildlife species,
cause a fish or wildlife population to drop below
self-sustaining levels, threaten to eliminate a
plant or animal community, reduce the number
or restrict the range of a rare or endangered
plant or animal or eliminate important examples
of the major periods of California history or
prehistory?
b. Does the project have impacts that are
individually limited, but cumulatively
considerable?
means that the incremental effects of a project
are considerable when viewed in connection
with the effects of past projects, the effects of
other current projects, and the effects of
probable future projects.)
c. Does the project have environmental effects
which will cause substantial adverse effects on
human beings, either directly or indirectly?
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