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measures. However, this alternative would also not distribute future development as well as the proposed General Plan. Environmentally Superior Alternative Section 15126(e)(2) of the CEQA Guidelines states that an EIR must identify the environmentally superior alternative other than the No Project Alternative. Although the No Project Alternative would have the lowest population, it would potentially have the most impacts of all of the alternatives, including the proposed General Plan, because it would not contain all of the new programs to reduce impacts and to ensure sustainability in the Planning Area, particularly in relation to energy use, water conservation, and water quality. The inclusion of new energy conservation programs in the Energy Element, water conservation and stormwater quality programs contained in the Water Element, and additional programs related to reducing greenhouse gases and the link between land use and transportation in the Air Quality and Climate Change Element of the proposed General Plan indicate that the proposed General Plan would be environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative, as these programs are not part of the existing General Plan. The proposed General Plan and all of the alternatives (including the No Project Alternative) would result in a significant and unavoidable impact related to inconsistencies with growth assumptions underlying the Bay Area Air Quality Management District Ozone Strategy. There are few differences of impacts among the alternatives except that there would be fewer development impacts related to the proposed General Plan as it would result in less development. Except for future development effects, buildout of the proposed General Plan, the Dispersed Growth Alternative, and Concentrated Residential /Mixed Use Alternative would either cause or be subject to essentially the same environmental effects. Thus based on the above, the proposed General Plan would be the Environmentally Superior Alternative. FINDINGS FOR SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IDENTIFIED IN THE EIR This section presents the approved project's significant environmental impacts and feasible mitigation measures. Section 15091 of the State CEQA Guidelines (14 California Code of Regulations [CCR]) and Section 21081 of the Public Resources Code require a lead agency to adopt findings for each significant environmental impact disclosed in an EIR. These requirements are set forth on page 1 of this document. Below are the findings for the significant impacts identified in the EIR for the proposed project. Descriptions of all impacts and mitigation measures are not repeated below because: (1) the City will adopt all of the mitigation measures identified in the EIR for each significant environmental impact; (2) the EIR concludes that these mitigation measures will avoid or substantially lessen each of the identified significant impacts, with the exception of transportation and air quality the significant and unavoidable impacts of Exhibit D 7