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Mpnday; July 29, 2013 Daily Appall E. Roadway Mitigation (1) Record The plan is for aggregate mined in the Project to beremoVed from die site by trucks travelling on Kunzler Ranch Road to North State Street There appears to be no dispute that Kunzler Ranch Road is fire ,only point of ingress and egress to the Project site,' The Draft estimated that the mining could involve bp to 176 truck trips per day each hauling 25 ton loads. According to the Draft, "[11 ocal roadways, such as Kunzler dtanch Road and North State Street .. are generally not designed to accommodate heavy vehicles, and truck travel on these roads would have the potential to adversely affect the potholes that have file potentia conditions less safe. Roadu Impacted from project truck h to be upgraded to support ve to 25 tons. [9[] • • . [911 • .. [Tl have a significant impact on Ln. eed an was runaway commtions and a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate mid maintain the roadway over a 30 yearperiod. The report identified Kunzler Ranch Rond as being in serious condition and identifies various altemadves for addressing the condition of thercad. "" To mitigate this significant impact, the Draft' -"recommended that Kunzler "Ranch Road be improved as needed (e.g., overlays or reconstruction) per the April 28, 2009 Kunzler Ranch -Road study and die Calhuns Design Manual standards. The project applicant would Pay the full cost of road: improvements, including design and construction. [911 Prior to operations the responsibility to mahitehi the proposed haul roads," .(Italics emitted:) - When it commented on the Draft, the County Department of Transportafion (MDOT) clarified that "Kunzler Ranch Road is not 'a County maintained road and that MDOT has no involvement in its operation, maintenance, or upkeep.... [%] . • . [911 Therefore there is no need for the applicant to enter into a Road Maintenance Agreement with the County for arrangement is the responsibility of the applicant, the mad's owner(s) and those property owners having rights to its use. [11 . • . [9I1 ideally, all the users of Kunzler Ranch Road would voluntarily form: a Road Maintenance Organization for the improvement and. maintenance -of the road. [However,) no party can unilaterally matte this ate Report - 9793 happen...;° The MDOT proposed an alternative means to mitigate the significant impact to Kunzler Ranch Road, and it was adopted nearly verbatim in the EIR The EIR states: 'Traffic,related repairs on Kunzler Ranch Road shall be initiated when the owners of the road and users of the easement reach a decision that such repairs are necessary. Granite's fair share shall be calculated based on the proportion of applicant's heavvyy truck trips to the total nuriber'of heavy truck tri ps on the road dadyear, Consistent with Civil Code Section 845, In the absence of a road maintenance agreement, applicant shall be required to pay its fair share of the cost and expense incurred for trafficrelated repairs of Kunzler Ranch Road,"' - (2} Rdvfew for the Project's impact on 'Programs for cumulative 'traffic Of' - Masoulte's' arguments are hg• "IMleasums to mitigate or avoid effects on the environment (runst aforceable through permit conditions, to ul truck traftc. There la'no reason to ae County's commitment to enforce the m measures, Masonite makes a valid point when it will be made or what improvement fimded. The EIR states that the pal to be made when'the interested priv, decide they are necessary or, in `:tl: of an agreement, "[clomistent with section 845;" These provisions leave 75B -230 i