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4.Written Comments on the Draft EIR and Responses to Comments Several commenters also expressed concern that the City may provide incentives through which developer contributions to funding infrastructure improvements would be reduced, requiring more of the cost of these improvements to be funded by the City via the General Fund. Several comments requested that the infrastructure improvements be provided at no cost to the City. While no direct developer incentives or subsidies are proposed as part of the EDZ, a portion of the new City revenues projected to be generated by new business activities within the EDZ may contribute to funding traffic improvements along Johnson Drive, Stoneridge Drive, and 1-680, and the projected amount of these contributions may be factored into individual Development Agreements and the respective calculation of traffic impact fees. The City Council will ultimately determine the proportions of infrastructure funding to be borne and provided by individual developers, State or federal transportation funds,traffic impact fees, and the City's General Fund. Master Response to Comments about Draft SEIR Traffic Impact Analysis Many comments on the Draft SEIR addressed traffic impacts that would result from the development of the uses within the proposed EDZ. For a discussion of potential impacts to traffic from implementation of the EDZ, refer to Section 4.D, Transportation and Traffic, of the Draft SEIR. The following master response summarizes the conclusions in that section of the Draft SEIR, and provides clarification in response to comments. As noted in Section 4.D of the Draft SEIR, all traffic impacts identified in the Draft EIR would be mitigated to a less-than-significant level through implementation of identified mitigation measures. This includes impacts that would occur under existing conditions, in the near term, and in the future(2040 conditions), and includes impacts to the following: • The intersection at Commerce Drive and Johnson Drive; • The intersection at Johnson Drive and Owens Drive(North); • The intersection at Johnson Drive and Stoneridge Drive; • Queue spillback along Stoneridge Drives; • Levels of service for freeway ramps at merge/diverge areas within 1-680; and • Safety of vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians on public roadways. 5 -Spillback-refers to traffic backup that extends beyond the available traffic"storage"(capacity)for the road segment in question.Spillback effects occur when backed-up traffic queues run the risk of blocking traffic from streets and driveways accessing the road,or blocking intersections along the road. 6 "I xvel of Service"is defined as a grading system that measures the operation of a local roadway network (intersections and roadway segments).The LOS grading system qualitatively characterizes traffic conditions associated with varying levels of vehicle traffic,ranging from LOS A(indicating free-flow traffic conditions with little or no delay experienced by motorists)to LOS F(indicating congested conditions where traffic flows exceed design capacity and result in long delays).The City of Pleasanton has established the maintenance of LOS D or better as the generally acceptable service level standard for peak hour intersection operations for most intersections in the city.LOS standards are exempt for gateway intersections. Johnson Drive Economic Development Zone 4-8 ESA/140421 Supplemental EIR Response to Comments March 2016