Reso PC17-01 0002 PC Reso 910 Woodside

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and standards of the General Plan Public Safety Element — Noise determined necessary by the Director of Community Development. 61. Work Stoppage for Sensitive Cultural Resources — In the event sensitive cultural resources are identified, work shall stop. a. If deposits of prehistoric or historic archeological materials are encountered during project construction activities, all work within an appropriate buffer area around the discovery shall be stopped and a qualified archeologist meeting federal criteria under 36 CFR 61 shall be contacted to assess the deposit(s) and make recommendations. b. If deposits of prehistoric or historic archeological materials cannot be avoided by project activities, the City Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department shall confirm that the project applicant(s) have retained a qualified archaeologist to evaluate the potential historic significance of the resource(s). If the deposits are determined to be nonsignificant by a qualified archeologist, avoidance is not necessary. If the deposits are determined to be significant by the qualified archeologist, the resources shall be avoided if feasible. If avoidance is not feasible, project impacts shall be mitigated in accordance with the recommendations of the qualified archaeologist, in coordination with the City Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department and CEQA Guidelines Section15126.4 (b)(3)(C), which requires implementation of a data recovery plan. c. The data recovery plan shall include provisions for adequately recovering all scientifically consequential information from and about any discovered archeological materials and include recommendations for the treatment of these resources. In-place preservation of the archeological resource is the preferred manner of mitigating potential impacts, as it maintains the relationship between the resource and the archeological context. In place preservation also reduces the potential for conflicts with the religious or cultural values of groups associated with the resource. Other mitigation options include, but are not limited to, the full or partial removal and curation of the resource. d. The City Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department shall confirm that the project applicant(s) have retained a qualified archeologist for the preparation and implementation of the data recovery plan, which shall be conducted by prior to any additional earth -moving activities in the area of the resource. The recovery plan shall be submitted to the project applicant, the City Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department, and the NWIC. Once the recovery plan is reviewed and approved by the City Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department and any appropriate resource recovery completed, project construction activity within the area of the find may resume. A data recovery plan shall not be required for resources that have been deemed by the NWIC as adequately recorded and recovered by studies already completed. (General Plan Mitigation Measure 4.5-1 a) [SDR][PLANNING] ATTY/RESO.0002/PC RESO 910 WOODSIDE REV: 01-11-17 PR Page 17 of 20