Biological Technical Report and MSHCP Consistency Analysis - Revised Latitude Business Park Development (75 acres) Riverside County, California APNs 279-121-004, -005, -006; 279-122-001, -002, -003, -004; 279-123-001, -002, -003; 279-125-003, -004; 279-134-001, -002, -003, -004; 279-140-001, -007; and 279-231-044 Prepared for: Latitude Business Park, LLC 1285 Corona Pointe Court Corona, California 92879 Prepared By: ECORP Consulting, Inc. 215 North 5th Street Redlands, California 92374 March 3, 2020 Biological Technical Report and MSHCP Consistency Analysis - Revised CONTENTS 1.0 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1 1.1 Project Location ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.2 Project Description ................................................................................................................................................................................... 2 1.3 Previous Agency Coordination ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 2.0 SPECIAL-STATUS SPECIES REGULATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1 Federal Regulations .................................................................................................................................................................................. 7 2.1.1 The Federal Endangered Species Act.............................................................................................................................. 7 2.1.2 Migratory Bird Treaty Act ................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.1.3 Federal Clean Water Act ..................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 State and Local Regulations .................................................................................................................................................................. 8 2.2.1 California Endangered Species Act .................................................................................................................................. 8 2.2.2 Fully Protected Species ....................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2.3 Native Plant Protection Act ................................................................................................................................................ 9 2.2.4 California Fish and Game Code ........................................................................................................................................ 9 2.2.5 Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan .......................................................... 10 2.2.6 CEQA Significance Criteria .............................................................................................................................................. 10 3.0 METHODS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.1 Literature Review .................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 3.2 Western Riverside County MSHCP Consistency Analysis .......................................................................................................... 12 3.3 Field Survey .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13 3.3.1 Biological Reconnaissance Survey ................................................................................................................................ 13 3.3.2 Aquatic Resources Delineation ...................................................................................................................................... 13 3.4 Burrowing Owl Habitat Assessment and Focused Surveys ....................................................................................................... 14 4.0 RESULTS ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 14 4.1 Literature Review .................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 4.1.1 Special-Status Plants and Wildlife ................................................................................................................................ 14 4.1.2 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Designated Critical Habitat .................................................................................... 14 4.1.3 Jurisdictional Drainages ................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.2 Biological Reconnaissance Survey and Aquatic Resources Delineation ............................................................................... 15 4.2.1 Property Characteristics ................................................................................................................................................... 15 4.2.2 Vegetation Communities ................................................................................................................................................. 15 4.2.3 Plants ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.4 Wildlife ................................................................................................................................................................................... 18 4.2.5 Potential for Special-Status Plant and Wildlife Species to Occur on the Project Site .................................. 18 4.2.6 Potentially Jurisdictional Drainages.............................................................................................................................. 19 4.3 Burrowing Owl Habitat Assessment ................................................................................................................................................. 19 4.4 Raptors and Migratory Birds .............................................................................................................................................................. 21 4.5 Wildlife Movement Corridors, Linkages, and Significant Ecological Areas ......................................................................... 21 5.0 Western Riverside County MSHCP Consistency Analysis .............................................................................................................................. 21 5.1 Riparian/Riverine, Vernal Pool, and Fairy Shrimp Habitat Assessment (MSHCP Section 6.1.2) .................................... 23 ECORP Consulting, Inc. 2019-124 Latitude Business Park i Biological Technical Report and MSHCP Consistency Analysis - Revised 5.1.1 Riparian/Riverine Areas .................................................................................................................................................... 23 5.1.2 Vernal Pools and Fairy Shrimp ....................................................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Narrow Endemic Plant Species .......................................................................................................................................................... 25 5.3 Burrowing Owl Habitat Assessment (MSHCP Section 6.3.2) .................................................................................................... 25 5.4 Urban/Wildlands Interface Guidelines (MSHCP Section 6.1.4) ................................................................................................ 25 5.5 Additional Surveys (MSHCP Section 6.3.2)..................................................................................................................................... 26 6.0 IMPACT ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26 6.1 Special-Status Species .......................................................................................................................................................................... 26 6.1.1 Burrowing Owl ...................................................................................................................................................................