Difference between revisions of "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

• 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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