Muniz Ranches Shaded Fuel Break
Summary
SCH Number
2022080168
Public Agency
Sonoma County
Document Title
Muniz Ranches Shaded Fuel Break
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
8/9/2022
Document Description
The County of Sonoma proposes to fund vegetation management work in the Muniz Ranches Property Owners Association in western Sonoma County. Work will occur along Muniz Ranches Road, maintaining and adding to existing fuel break already created since 2017. Fuel reduction work will encompass the removal of dead trees and hazardous brush in the understory. The project entails understory fuel reduction that will occur to reduce the volume of flammable vegetation in the project area. Vegetation and trees to be removed will be cut at grade, with stumps remaining in place. Vegetation removal will occur using mechanical methods, via heavy equipment and handcrews with chainsaws. Heavy equipment will remain along the road prism or already disturbed areas and no ground disturbing activities will occur. Slash and debris will be disposed of onsite via mulching or lop and scatter. Work will not occur in areas of special status species, critical habitat, wetlands, riparian corridors, sensitive natural communities or other sensitive resources.
Contact Information
Name
Robert Aguero
Agency Name
Permit Sonoma
Job Title
Senior Environmental Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Jenner
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
Northern California
Cross Streets
Muniz Ranch Road
Zip
95450
State Highways
SR 1
Township
08N
Range
12W
Section
36
Base
MDM
Other Location Info
Present Land Use/Zoning/General Plan Designation: Resource and Rural Development (RRD)
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15304(i) Minor Alterations to Land
Reasons for Exemption
The project is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines Sections, Section 15304 (i) Minor Alteration to Land - Fuel management activities within 30 to 100 feet of structures to reduce the volume of flammable vegetation, provided that the activities will not result in the taking of endangered, rare, or threatened plant or animal species or significant erosion and sedimentation of surface waters. The understory fuel reduction is a minor alteration to land that involves fuel management activities within 30 to 100 feet of structures.
County Clerk
Sonoma
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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