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8.A. - Page 18 <br />The City considered the revisions to the project and prepared a Revised Final EIR to aid the <br />Planning Commission and the public in understanding the changes and the effects of the changes <br />to the project. <br />New Application <br />The applicant withdrew the original application and submitted a new Planned Development <br />Permit application on September 9, 2011. The new application is for a project that is smaller in <br />scope and scale than the original application, covering less land area, and resulting in two fewer <br />residences. The new project would therefore result in overall reduced environmental impacts <br />when compared with the impacts of the original project. <br />A brief comparison (by environmental topic) between the original application and the new <br />reduced -scope application is provided below: <br />• Aesthetics: The reduced number of proposed residences would reduce the change to the <br />landscape and views. The amount of proposed open space would stay the same as in the <br />Draft EIR. <br />• Air Quality: The revised project would result in less soil disturbance with the elimination <br />of two of the proposed residences, which would reduce the amount of dust generated <br />during construction activities. Construction of fewer residences would also reduce the <br />amount of criteria pollutants produced from construction vehicles and construction <br />activities. Fewer residences would mean fewer criteria pollutants from vehicles over <br />time. <br />• Biological Resources: The revised project would have less effect on vegetation and <br />wildlife due to the reduced area of disturbance. <br />• Cultural Resources: The revised project would have a reduced potential to affect <br />previously undiscovered cultural resources due to the reduced area of disturbance. <br />• Geology, Soils, and Seismicity: The revised project would reduce the effects on geology, <br />geologic hazards, soils, and seismicity due to the reduced area of ground disturbance. <br />• Hazards and Hazardous Materials: The revised project would reduce the effects related to <br />hazards and hazardous materials by reducing the volume of hazardous materials that <br />would be used during residential construction. <br />• Hydrology and Water Quality: The revised project would have a reduced area of <br />disturbance, and would therefore have a reduced effect on surface water, groundwater, <br />drainage, and erosion. <br />• Land Use, Planning, Recreation, and Agriculture: The revised project would have no <br />change in impacts to land use, planning, recreation, and agriculture. <br />• Mineral Resources: The effects to mineral resources would be the same as the original <br />project. <br />2 <br />