Bennett Ridge Infrastructure Protection – Bennett Ridge Road
Summary
SCH Number
2022100153
Public Agency
Sonoma County
Document Title
Bennett Ridge Infrastructure Protection – Bennett Ridge Road
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
10/7/2022
Document Description
The County of Sonoma proposes to fund a vegetation management project in the Bennett Ridge neighborhood. Project consists of vegetation management to reduce fire hazard within the approximately 200-acre Bennett Ridge neighborhood. The project will remove seventeen 90'-tall eucalyptus trees growing around the cul-de-sac at the western end of upper Bennett Ridge Road. Other trees in project area will be limbed to reduce ladder fuels. Special status plant species in the area will be flagged and avoided during project operation.
Contact Information
Name
Robert Aguero
Agency Name
Permit Sonoma
Job Title
Senior Environmental Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Coordinates
Cities
Santa Rosa
Counties
Sonoma
Regions
Northern California
Cross Streets
Bennett Ridge Road
Zip
95404
Waterways
Matanzas Creek, Yulupa Creek
Township
07N
Range
07W
Section
35
Base
MDM
Other Location Info
Present Land Use/Zoning/General Plan Designation: Rural Residential (RR)
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 15301 (c) Maintenance of existing highways and streets and 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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