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whether the City Council felt such striping was then currently warranted. The preferred project, by contrast, allows the City Council to gauge changing traffic conditions, the efforts of the City's regional partners to support funding and construction timing of regional improvements that benefit Pleasanton, and community concerns. The preferred project therefore allows the City Council to make a determination to restripe the Stoneridge Drive bridges to two lanes in each direction even if all the regional improvements have not been completed, thereby vesting the City Council with the freedom to exercise its discretion about how best to manage Pleasanton's roadways. All impacts of the preferred project have been analyzed in the EIR /SEIR. The Four Lane Concurrent Extension Alternative analyzes all impacts associated with Stoneridge Drive (including the Stoneridge Drive bridges) being striped with two lanes in each direction. Although the SEIR also analyzes the Two -Lane Constrained Extension Alternative (which, as a practical matter, the preferred project will mirror for some period of time), the CEQA Findings, the Statement of Overriding Considerations and the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan track the Four -Lane Concurrent Extension Alternative because the preferred alternative anticipates the restriping of Stoneridge Drive bridges to two lanes in each direction at some point in the future and therefore the impacts and related mitigation associated with the Four -Lane Concurrent Extension Alternative, rather than the Two -Lane Constrained Extension Alternative, reflect the greatest impacts that will result from the preferred project (see SEIR at 123). PUBLIC REVIEW PROCESS The City distributed an initial Notice of Preparation (NOP) for the EIR on June 13, 2006, for agency and public review. The purpose of the NOP was to announce the City's intention to prepare and distribute a Draft EIR on the proposed project and to solicit comments on the scope and issues that should be considered in preparing the EIR. The initial NOP comment period closed on August 7, 2006. The NOP was subsequently updated and redistributed on March 26, 2007. The updated NOP comment period closed on April 30, 2007. A public scoping meeting was also held by the City on April 11, 2007. The scoping meeting provided the public with an opportunity to orally present their concerns about the proposed project. Comments were received through the combined NOP and public scoping process. Based partially on the NOP and public scoping process, the City prepared a Draft EIR (DEIR) that was published on April 16, 2008. The CEQA- mandated 45 -day public review period began on April 16, 2008 and ended on June 4, 2008. In addition to the comments received at a public hearing conducted by the City Planning Commission on May 14, 2008, comment letters were submitted by various public agencies and organizations. Responses to all comments received were prepared and included in the Final EIR (Responses to Comments document), published in August, 2008, which was prepared in accordance with CEQA and the guidelines for implementation of CEQA. 5 Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations