Plant and animal life in the study area has not yet been adequately surveyed, a serious deficiency. Any survey conducted in October and November is necessarily limited. That the area was not resurveyed in the spring is inexcusable. A flood plain is by nature an ecologically rich habitat. To conclude that there is little or no value there flies in the face of probability and raises the suspicion of deliberate mischaracterization.
Conclusions based on faulty information are worthless.
The City should insist on a careful and objective survey of the plant and animal life in the study area before attempting an overall site plan. Analysis of Visual Impacts. The projected impact of development alternatives on key views assumes various mitigating factors that are either likely not to occur or that are even in direct conflict with the rest of the dGEIS and the draft design guidelines. These assumptions are all unrealistic. The Final GEIS should include view simulations which do not incorporate these assumptions.