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each direction, the preferred project would exceed the Alameda County's Congestion Management Agency's standards for several arterial roadway segments, although it would also improve four arterial roadway segments that currently are failing. Required Statement of Overriding Considerations The City will mitigate the impacts described above to the extent feasible (see previous section). However, these measures will not reduce the above impacts to less -than significant levels. The City has examined reasonable project alternatives, including the proposed project. The City has found that the proposed project, the Existing Specific Plan Alternative, the No Project Alternative and the Open Space Alternative would not achieve the core project objectives and /or would not significantly reduce the significant and unavoidable impacts identified for the preferred project and /or be consistent with City planning policies and goals. Each alternative has been discussed above. The City has determined to approve the preferred project. In preparing this statement of overriding considerations, the City has balanced the benefits of the preferred project against its unavoidable environmental impacts. Although implementation of the preferred project would result in significant and unavoidable impacts related to the loss of the rural character of the project, air emissions above the thresholds used by the BAAQMD, climate change, noise, and increased traffic congestion at intersections outside Pleasanton, the City finds that the benefits of the project to the community are overriding considerations when weighed against the environmental impacts listed above. Adoption of the preferred project will allow the following community goals to be achieved, and, thus, the City finds that the potential benefits outweigh the environmental risks of the preferred project: 1. Retain existing auto sales businesses within the City of Pleasanton by providing a large, convenient and highly visible site for an auto mall that will facilitate newer and larger facilities necessary to meet automobile franchise requirements. 2. Provide a site for a senior continuing care community that will help meet Pleasanton's and the surrounding community's expanding need for senior housing and living opportunities, while providing a buffer between the adjacent existing residential neighborhoods to the west and the planned auto mall to the east. 3. Provide a convenient, flexible, and efficient location for additional commercial development that can take advantage of excellent freeway access and the developing El Charro Road commercial corridor. 4. Provide a 17 -acre community park site with an ice center to the City that may be used for a variety of active and /or passive recreational uses, may offer multiple potential access points, and takes advantage of the adjacent Arroyo Mocho, 39 Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations