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25 feet to 35 feet). Therefore, staff believes the increased height is acceptable. Staff also believes the design of the revised garage references the architecture, colors, and materials of the office building, resulting in an architecturally-integrated project. The removal of the southern parking garage is also a significant visual improvement over the approved project. Circulation (Public & Private) Vehicular access to the site would be provided from the five existing driveways (one on Stoneridge Mall Road and four on Embarcadero Court) and one new driveway on Stoneridge Mall Road that would be shared with the BART garage. Vehicular access into the BART garage would be relocated to the east side of the structure and a new building opening would be established. The existing BART driveway on Stoneridge Mall Road would be narrowed and converted into an emergency vehicle access drive. The existing Stoneridge Mall Road driveway would be widened from 25 feet to 50 feet to accommodate a landscaped median and two exit lanes out of the driveway. This driveway would lead to a below grade tunnel providing access to the basement garage. Employees could also drive through the tunnel to access the surface parking spaces on the north and east sides of the Stoneridge Corporate Plaza site. A small drop-off only parking area would be added in front (south) of the new office building. Both of the Stoneridge Mall Road driveways would be signalized. To accommodate the signalization of the driveways, six of the Stoneridge Mall Road driveways along Stoneridge Mall's frontage would need to be closed off with associated changes to the Mall's parking lot. Nordstrom (the owner of the affected parcel) and Stoneridge Mall have indicated that these changes are acceptable. Additionally, a traffic study was prepared in 2014 to analyze the traffic and circulation for the original project. As a result of this analysis, Workday was required to construct the following traffic mitigation measures: • Foothill Road at Canyon Way Intersection: Install a third southbound left-turn lane at Foothill Road with an additional eastbound lane on Canyon Way to accommodate the new southbound left-turn traffic. • Stoneridge Mall Road at Stoneridge Drive Intersection: Increase the southbound left-turn vehicle storage on Stoneridge Mall Road by either modifying the roadway median or by widening the west side of Stoneridge Mall Road and realigning the roadway. • Stoneridge Mall Road at the New Shared BART/Workdav Driveway: Signalize this intersection (including the necessary modifications to the Stoneridge Mall parking lot on the opposite side of Stoneridge Mall Road to accommodate the new signal). Because the modified project included the elimination of the southern parking garage, an increase in size of the northern parking garage, a new basement garage, and related on-site circulation changes, an updated traffic study was conducted to determine whether the revised project's on-site circulation was acceptably designed and whether the revised project would change the off-site traffic mitigation required with the approved project. The updated traffic study determined that the project's on-site circulation was acceptably designed to handle the expected traffic volumes and that the mitigation measures identified in the 2014 traffic study would continue to adequately mitigate the traffic generated from the modified project. The updated traffic study indicates that the vehicle storage capacity of the southbound left-turn lane at the new shared BART/Workday driveway could be exceeded one or two times during the morning peak hour. The traffic study indicates that vehicle queues could be managed through PUD-104-1 M/PUD-81-22-15M, 6110/6120-6160 Stoneridge Mall Road Planning Commission Page 10 of 17