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06/07/2004 obtain a Streambed Alteration Agreement from the California Department of Fish and Game, and would be required to comply with all conditions of those permits /agreements. The conditions would include a Habitat Mitigation and Monitoring Plan approved by all necessary agencies, and the HMMP would include a plan to replace or otherwise mitigate the loss of saline emergent waters and, to the extent within the jurisdiction of the Corps of Engineers or Regional Water Quality Control Board, fresh emergent wetlands (Mitigations 8 -6 and 8 -7). Findings: Obtaining the specified permits and implementation of the HMMP and other permit requirements would reduce the potential impact of loss of saline emergent wetlands and potential loss of fresh emergent wetlands, otherwise potentially environmentally significant, to a level of insignificance. If such permits are not obtained and implementation measures identified, the Project would not go forward. G. Bird Collisions Potential Impact: Birds would collide with Project buildings, particularly tower structures, and particularly in window areas or when buildings are lit at night (Impact 8 -8). Mitigation: Bird collisions caused by night lighting could be reduced by minimizing night lighting, using low- intensity exterior lighting whenever consistent with security and other needs, using cutoff lights, shielding light to focus exterior light downward and automatic shut -off of perimeter lights (Mitigation 8 -8). Findings: Mitigation 8 -8 is feasible, and would substantially reduce the potentially significant environmental impact of bird collisions, but not to a less -than- significant level. Even as modified by the Precise Plan Project buildings would have potentially significant bird collision impacts. These impacts could be further reduced and made insignificant only by substantially reducing the number, height and size of residential buildings in the Project, which would render it infeasible because the remaining number of units would not be sufficient to recover the cost of infrastructure and other improvements necessary to develop any Project on this site and because the number of affordable and other new residential units would be substantially reduced, preventing realization of a primary goal of the Project. A project with substantially fewer units would also reduce or eliminate other benefits of the Project identified in the Statement of Overriding Considerations. The remaining bird collision impacts are therefore significant but unavoidable. H. Outdoor Lighting Effects on Wildlife Potential Impact: Project lighting could adversely affect nocturnal roosting and nesting birds and disrupt diurnal rhythms of a wide range of animals and plants (Impact 8 -9). Mitigation: Lighting effects could be reduced by minimizing night - lighting, using low- intensity exterior lighting whenever consistent with security and other needs, 1289 \02 \179278.2 23 Atty /Reso /Reso.1470 14590 060804 Muff # 304 Bin 26