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water pumping capacity improvements to help serve the wider community and Mirador Avenue extension to improve traffic circulation in the neighborhood. 4. Preservation of open space is not an explicit General Plan objective for the project site, as the project site is currently designated for residential use, and such residential use may be more compatible with the future residential development on surrounding properties than would be a continuation of current horse grazing; and 5. The social, economic, and environmental benefits to be derived from the project, as discussed in the Statement of Overriding Considerations (Section V, hereinafter), would not be obtained. B. Reduced Development Alternative The purpose of this alternative would be to substantially reduce most site-related impacts by eliminating development in most areas of environmental constraints. This alternative would also feature more emphasis on custom homes in appropriate parts of the site. Facts: 1. Number of lots: approximately 86 lots or less (a minimum of 63 less than the proposed project); 2. Gross density: 0.8 du/acre or less (compared with the proposed project density of 1.5 du/acre); and 3. Custom homes proposed on 22 or more lots. 4. in comparison with the 149 unit development plan, as initially proposed, impacts would be moderately to substantially reduced in the following categories: traffic, visual, vegetation and wildlife, public services and facilities, geotechnical and noise. 5. The Reduced Development Alternative includes the possible extension of a collector street across the site for an improved circulation system in the southeast Pleasanton area. As stated in the Final EIR (page 11-5), extending this collector street through the Bonds property would have a major effect on the environment, including alteration of traffic patterns, visual impacts of massive "cut" slopes through Bonde ridge, impacts to vegetation and wildlife, and increased grading, geotechnical, - 26 -