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� �-v 3 <br /> ;�, obtain a Streambed Alteration Agreement from the Califomia Department of Fish and <br /> ^,;,�� Game, and would be required to compiy with all condidons of those <br /> permits/agreements. The conditions would inciude a Habitat Mitigation and Monitoring <br /> Plan approved by all necessary agencies, and the HMMP would indude a plan to <br /> replace or c,therwise mitigate the loss of saline emergent w•eters and, to the extent <br /> within the jur.sdiction of the Corps of Engineers or Regiona� Water Quality Control <br /> Board, fresh emergent wetlands (Mitigations 8-6 and 8-7). <br /> Findings: Obtaining the specified permits and implementation of the <br /> HMMP and other permit requirements would reduce the potential impact of loss of <br /> saline emergent wetlands and potential loss of fresh emergent wetlands, othervvise <br /> potentially environmentally significant, to a level of insignificance. If such permits are <br /> not obtained and implementation measures identified, the Project would not go forward. <br /> G. Bird Collisions <br /> Potential Impact: Birds would collide with Project buildings, particularly <br /> tower structures, and particularly in window areas or when buildings are lit at night <br /> (Impact 8-8). <br /> Mitigation: Bird collisions caused by night lighting could be reduced by <br /> minimizing night lighting, using low-intensity exterior lighting whenever consistent with <br /> security and other needs, using cutoff lights, shielding light to focus eMerior light <br /> downward and automatic shut-off of perimeter lights (Mitigation 8-8). <br /> � Findings: Mitigation 8-8 is feasible, and would substantially reduce the <br /> potentially significant environmental impact of bird collisions, but not to a less-than- <br /> significant level. Even as modified by the Precise Pian Project buildings would have <br /> potentialiy significant bird collision impacts. These impacts could be further reduced <br /> and made insignificant only by substantially reducing the number, height and size of <br /> residential buildings in the Project, which would render it infeasible because the <br /> remaining number of units would not be su�cient to recover the cost of infrastructure <br /> and other improvements necessary to develop any Project on this site a�d because the <br /> number of affordable and other new residential units would be substantially reduced, <br /> preventing realization of a primary goal of the Project. A project with substantialiy fewer <br /> units would aiso reduce or eliminate other benefits of the Project identified in the <br /> Statement of Overriding Considerations. The remaining bird collision impacts are <br /> therefore significant but unavoidable. <br /> H. Outdoor Liqhtinq Effects on Wildlife <br /> Potential Impact: Project lighting could adversely affect noctumal <br /> roosting and nesting birds and disrupt diurnal rhythms of a wide rar�ge of animals and <br /> plants (Impact 8-9). <br /> Mitigation: Lighting effects could be reduced by minimizing night-lighting, <br /> using low-intensity exterior lighting whenever consistent with security and other needs, <br /> 1289�0211792782 23 <br /> Atty/Reso/Reso.1470 <br /> 052004 <br />