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These impacts would remain significant and unavoidable if the Existing Specific Plan Alternative were adopted by the City. Finding: Infeasible The Existing Specific Plan Alternative is infeasible because it is inconsistent with the project objectives to provide a site (a) for a senior continuing care community that will help meet the City's and the surrounding community's expanding need for senior housing and care opportunities, (b) to retain existing auto sales within the City by providing for an auto mall site, and (c) to provide for a joint neighborhood park/storm water detention facility. The Existing Specific Plan Alternative is also inconsistent with the objective of the preferred project to acknowledge substantial changes in land use conditions and the introduction of new infrastructure improvements and agreements that were unknown at the time the 1989 Specific Plan was adopted. Specifically, this alternative would not: Reflect changes in surrounding land uses not contemplated in 1989, including cessation of the Kaiser /Hanson quarry operations, establishment of the Livermore Airport Protection Area, and adoption /implementation of the Eastern Dublin Specific Plan to the north and Livermore's El Charro Specific Plan to the east. Reflect changes to the timing, funding, and specific design of major infrastructure improvements since the adoption of the 1989 Specific Plan, including completion of the Arroyo Mocho improvements in 2004, the El Charro Road Pre Development and Cooperation and the Cost Sharing Agreements of 2007, and the City of Dublin's 1 -580 interchange improvements which began in 2008. Be consistent with the City's planning policies embodied in the El Charro Road Pre Development and Cooperation Agreement (2007) and the Cost Sharing Agreement (2007). Specifically, the El Charro Road improvements agreed upon in the Pre Development and Cooperation Agreement are very different from those envisioned in the 1989 Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan, which called for separate quarry-truck tunnels in both directions under the proposed Jack London /Stoneridge Drive /EI Charro Road intersection. The tunnel plan has since been deemed infeasible, both from an engineering and financial standpoint. The Pre Development and Cooperation Agreement replaces the tunnel plan with a new improvement plan which minimizes the need for quarry trucks to change lanes between the Jack London Boulevard /EI Charro Road intersection and 1 -580. The Existing Specific Plan Alternative is also infeasible because it is inconsistent with the City's goals and policies regarding the Community Park. On June 10, 2008, the City Council approved a conceptual Staples Ranch Park Master Plan for the Community 9 Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations