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From the Xerces Society -Reknowned Conservation Group who agrees that the 1982/1989 EIR is out of date:
"Dear Mayor Conway and Members of the Brisbane City Council:
The Xerces Society is a nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through
the conservation of invertebrates and their habitat. We are writing to ask that
the Council vote ‘No’ to proceed with the pending Brookfield Home’s
development because of its impact on two endangered species of butterfly, the
Mission blue and the Callippe silverspot.
We are writing to ask that the Council vote ‘No’ to proceed with the pending Brookfield Home’s development because of its impact on two endangered species of butterfly, the Mission blue and the Callippe silverspot.
Both of these butterflies are highly endangered and occur only in the San Francisco Bay area. These species have not yet gone extinct, in part, because of the undisturbed grassland habitat that remains on San Bruno Mountain. The proposed Brookfield Home housing development is slated to occur within the habitat of both the Callippe silverspot and the Mission blue, and, if allowed to proceed, could easily drive these vulnerable species to extinction.
The Environmental Impact Report upon which this action is based is out of
date and should not be approved. We suggest that any development that is
allowed should not occur on the habitat of any endangered butterfly.”
-Sarina Jepsen, Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation:Letter to Brisbane City Council, January 10, 2010
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From the Sierra Club, Loma Prieta Chapter, representing thousands of members:
“Whereas the Callipe silverspot and Mission blue butterflies are federally listed
endangered species; and
Whereas 98% of the Callippe’s habitat around the bay has already been built
on; and
Whereas the Callippe silverspot grassland habitat will be diminished and
fragmented and isolated by Brookfield Home’s proposed development on the
NER; and
Whereas the San Bruno Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan has not, in 26
years, delivered on its promise of habitat conservation; and
Whereas the proposed mitigation measures for the development are not
tested and proven on San Bruno Mountain; and
Whereas, the Sierra Club supports the preservation of species and open
space habitat and denser residential development to conserve opens pace
lands,
[Be] it Resolved, that the Loma Prieta Chapter of the Sierra Club supports
protection of the habitat of the Callipe silverspot and Mission blue butterflies on
the Northeast Ridge of San Bruno Mountain as open space to be managed for
the butterfly and other compatible open space uses, at least until such time as
the status of the butterfly shows empirically based improvement and a new plan
assures the well-being of the butterfly colony.”
-Loma Prieta Chapter, Sierra Club: Resolution to oppose development on the Northeast Ridge
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