Horse Equipment Bamboo equine horse stable stall plank front panels

Horse Equipment Bamboo equine horse stable stall plank front panels

For all action alternatives, specified major maintenance and capital improvements would include actions designed to protect or enhance cultural resources in accordance with the NPS guidelines. The intent under all alternatives is to preserve the historic landscape and historic core areas to the greatest extent possible while protecting water quality by removing all non historic facilities from the stream buffer zones. Certain non-historic features in the historic core areas would also be removed unless they are needed for stables operations (e.g., paddocks or turn-outs). Those modern equestrian facilities that must remain in the historic core area would be designed to blend appropriately with historic features. Archeology. Common to all alternatives would be the requirement that project level research and documentation and Section 106 compliance and consultation with the California State Historic Preservation Officer prior to the commencement of specific project constructions and development. There is additional identification of resources and research required. Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department. All three action alternatives provide for the Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department to continue to maintain facilities at Golden Gate Dairy under an appropriate business agreement and in a manner consistent with the protection of park resources at the site.

In all action alternatives, major new buildings such as residences are designed to reach three sustainability benchmarks: A minimum silver or higher Leadership in Environmentally Efficient Design (LEED) rating (achievable rating may vary by alternative). Section 9.1.1.6 of the NPS Management Policies (2006) states that ―All projects that include visitor centers or major visitor services facilities must incorporate LEED standards to achieve a silver rating". The Plan likely fits under LEED NC (for New Construction and major rehabilitation). Executive Order 13514 (signed in Oct 2009) directs Federal agencies to "implement high performance sustainable Federal building design, construction, operation and management, maintenance, and deconstruction including by ... (ii) ensuring that all new construction, major renovation, or repair and alteration of Federal buildings complies with the Guiding Principles for Federal Leadership in High Performance and Sustainable Buildings such as:

1. Minimal increase in electricity usage, natural gas use, water usage, and sewage output.

2. Reduced potentially polluted storm water runoff from the site(s).

Alternative B includes two options; Option B1 would result in permanent stables at four sites. Option B2, the Preferred Alternative, would be the same as Option B1 except it would result in permanent stables at three locations. The following sections describe these options in more detail. The following description under Option B2 describes only the differences between options B1 and B2.

Alternatives that increase the number of horses or add residential use would likely increase water use demands.

Construction of certain new stable buildings and other facilities would require vegetation removal, and heavy equipment and construction crews may trample adjacent vegetation. In addition, as noted above, destruction of vegetation would likely occur where new horse turnout areas or new stables sites are added. Substantial increases in uses of adjacent trails could indirectly affect vegetation through the introduction of invasive species, soil erosion and loss in frequently used areas.

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