Airport Clapper Rail • SR Airport Yardbirds • REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION for January 24th MEETING • REPORT TO PLANNING COMMISSION for November 15th MEETING
See Report to Planning Commission on Issues Raised November 15th
Final Environmental Impact Report & Revisions
– comments to
Kraig.Tambornini@cityofsanrafael.org
-- next Meeting Jan 24th 2012
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REVISION’S doc. - (in MS Word -- with words like "Clapper Rail", "light",
"noise", "mitigate" .... highlighted to search, copy and paste from )
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Some gems
from the
Revisions doc:
Page 91(87)
could build
a noise wall
instead of closing
the outdoor fields at 9
p.m.
Page 90(86) and
page 11
a noise wall
along the
southern boundary of the
parking lot and
soccer warm up
areas.
Page 86(83)
In order to provide for one foot of freeboard elevation above the base 1
00 year flood elevation
of
.L6.0 NGVD,
the
portions of the building below +7.0 NGVD
shall be
flood proofed.
Page 80(78)
Outdoor parking lot lights and outdoor
soccer field
lights, in particular,
should be
shielded so
that they
do not
aim above
the horizon. Additionally,
outdoor lights should
be flight
checked at
night to
ensure that they do not create
glare during
landings and
takeoffs.
Page 78(77)
, elements
of the Project have
heights that
would extend into the
navigable air-space
above the
San Rafael Airport
Limit height of proposed structures to assure
clearance of the 7:1
Transitional Surface
" Design the
row of
parking stalls
nearest to airfield for
compact vehicles and/or add signs
along
the fence-line notifying drivers
not to
back-in their
vehicles
people may
find it
difficult to move out of harm's way if an aircraft accident should
occur.
Add obstruction lights to the following features to make them more
conspicuous to pilots:
The highest
estimated concentration of
people in
a single-acre
area on the Project site would be 216,
which slightly exceeds the
single-acre criterion of
200 people
Page 63(63)
,
four-foot black mesh exclusion fencing shall be installed along the outside edge
of the
creek buffer zone
(100
feet from the North
Fork of
Gallinas Creek)
to prevent sensitive species,
such as Clapper rails and black
rails,
from entering
the work
areas.
:
Nocturnal Lighting. Lighting of the
outdoor soccer
field at the proposed
recreational facility
at night for evening
games could
result in potentially
significant impacts
to wildlife species and
habitat in
the North
Fork of Gallinas
Creek
Page 58
Impact Bio-2: California Clapper Rail and
California Black Rail.
The proposed Project will
not impact
marsh habitats or adjacent
upland habitats along the North Fork
of Gallinas
Creek;
therefore, there
will be no direct impacts to the California Clapper rail
or the
California black rail
Page 58 and page
17 and page 3
Security level
lighting shall
be set
to turn off in parking areas
and pedestrian walkways
one-half hour
after close
of the facility, e.g.
by 12:30
a.m.
Page 47
restrictive
covenants
were recorded
for the
airport site
in December
1983
,
the proposed
Project is
not consistent with
the current
Planned Development
District and Master
Use Permit
established for the
airport site.
As
part of
the submitted
application for
development, the Project
Applicant has included
an
application for an
amendment to the
PD District and
Master Use
Permit
Page 46
"The existing
Declaration of
Restrictions allow
for "private
and public
recreational uses-;" but
not a
recreational facility."
"This
alternative assumes that the outdoor soccer field and warm-up area that are
currently proposed
would conform
to the existing
PD District
and Master
Use Permit, however,
the
indoor
soccer/dance/gymnastics facility
would not."
Page 42
Therefore, for
For the reasons
discussed above,
there are
no significant
cumulative impacts as
a result
of this
Project."
"The Project
conforms to the
airport's Master
Use Permit
and underlying
restrictive covenants
Page 41
Thus, the Project would not contribute to
any significant
cumulative noise
impacts.
The Project
would not
make a cumulatively
considerable contribution to a significant cumulative impact related to hazards
Page 40
Thus, the Project would not make a cumulatively considerable contribution to any significant cumulative
biological impacts.
Page 14
Clapper Rail sightings aerial
photo
Page 12
As part of
the Master
Use Permit,
the applicant has
requested the
flexibility to replace
soccer, dance and
gymnastics
with
other recreational
uses over
time.
Page 1
"The fence
will be
a minimum
of ten-feet
tall (which
may consist
of a
standard 6-foot
tall
cyclone fence with a
4-foot netting
extension) for the
purpose of preventing balls
from the soccer
fields from
entering the
marsh."
They are
anticipating considerable noise - which could be compared with Sat+Sun mornings at McInnes
Park right now.
It is likely that the noise is going to exceed the decibel threshold that
requires a SOUND WALL.
Perhaps a decibel measurement of today's soccer activity might be a good
indicator.
They reckon a 10ft fence will stop balls from entering the marsh (REVISIONS
page 1).
That fence and a long sound wall are what we will be looking at -- as well as
the building.
