Item 28 - Public Hearing - ZOA No. 20204-01 South Coast Technology Center

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South Coast Technology Center Project CEQA Exemption 15183 delineated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.15 The Project Site also does not contain nor is it adjacent to any wetland or riparian habitat as identified by the National Wetlands Inventory.16 As stated in the GPU PEIR, parcels with a proposed land use designation that allows for development, such as the Project Site, currently do not contain sensitive vegetation with any biological value. Thus, although the Project Site contains limited ornamental vegetation, the site does not include attributes that would be capable of supporting special status or sensitive plant species, or native resident or migratory species. Additionally, the Project would comply with RR B-2, which would ensure any potential direct or indirect impacts to bird species that may nest in the on -site trees comply with California Fish and Game Code Section 3503, which prohibits the take, possession, or needless destruction of any bird's nest or eggs. Therefore, Project impacts related to candidate, sensitive, or special status species; riparian habitat; wetlands; native resident or migratory species would be less than significant. A total of 201 trees would be removed to construct the proposed Project, all of which are located on the Project Site. SAMC Chapter 33, Article VII regulates the planting, maintenance, and removal of public trees. Since all trees removed would be on -site trees, the regulations contained in SAMC Chapter 33, Article VII would not apply to the Project. Thus, the Project would not conflict with the City's tree ordinance and impacts would be less than significant. In addition, as stated in the GPU PEIR, the City is not within an NCCP/HCP area. Therefore, the proposed Project would not conflict with an NCCP/HCP or other approved local, regional, or state habitat conservation plan and no impacts would occur. Based on the above, the Project would not result in new or substantially more severe impacts compared to the determination in the GPU PEIR, which concluded that impacts related to riparian habitat, sensitive natural communities, wetlands and jurisdictional waterways, and adopted NCCP/HCP would be less than significant and that impacts to candidate, sensitive, or special status species; wildlife movement; nesting sites; and migratory birds would be less than significant with mitigation. As such, no new project -specific mitigation measures are required. 4.4.3 Conclusion The Project is consistent with the General Plan Update. With compliance with RR B-2 identified in the GPU PEIR, the proposed Project would not have any specific effects which are peculiar to the Project or the Project Site. There are no project -specific impacts or potentially significant off - site or cumulative impacts that the GPU PEIR did not analyze, and there are no new significant or substantially more severe biological resource impacts than anticipated by the GPU PEIR. 4.4.4 Applicable GPU PEIR Regulatory Requirements/Mitigation Measures: RR B-2 Regulatory requirement for potential direct/indirect impacts to common and sensitive bird and raptor species will require compliance with the California Fish and Game Code Section 3503. 15 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Critical Habitat for Threatened and Endangered Species Online Mapper, httDs://fws.maos.arcais.com/home/webmaD/viewer.html?webmaD=9d8de5e265ad4fe09893cf75b8dbfb77. accessed April 25, 2024. 's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. National Wetlands Inventory Wetlands Mapper. https://fwsprimarV.wim.usgs.gov /wetlands/apes/wetlands-mapper/, accessed April 25, 2024. July 2024 Page 36