Ferrini Ranch Subdivision
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Ferrini Ranch is a proposed development project on 870 acres made up of 9 individual parcels to be subdivided into 212 residential units. The EIR is included as part of a conditional use permit which requests a general plan amendment to support a rezone and subdivision of the property.[1]
Potentially Significant Impacts addressed in EIR
- Visual impacts and critical viewshed obstruction
- Air quality
- Biological resources (special status plant and animal species)
- Filling of perennial waters (stream alteration)
- Oak woodlands
- Nesting raptors and migratory birds
- Wildlife road crossings
- Cultural resources
- Soil Erosion
- Groundwater resources
- Storm water runoff
- Hazardous materials
- Land use / population impacts
- Construction noise
- Transportation
- Greenhouse gas and climate change
Project Alternatives
- Alternative 1: No project/no development
- site used for grazing
- Alternative 2: "Flatland" subdivision design
- no development on hilly portions of site
- Alternative 3: "Reduced impact" subdivision design
- a reconfigured site plan with the same number of housing units as originally proposed
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Ferrini Ranch Alternative 3 West parcel
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Ferrini Ranch Alternative 3 East parcel
- Alternative 4: Compact footprint subdivision design
- uses clustering to reduce scenic impacts; eliminates many lots along Hwy 68, shortened Ferrini Ranch Road, new Hwy 68 interchange would be required
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