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Ponderosa Homes at 6900 Valley Trails Drive Initial Study and Negative Declaration 3. Project generates 10 or more vehicle trips through an existing LOS E or F intersection. 4. Project that changes existing land use in general or master plan. Based on the 9th Generation of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Trip Generation Handbook, the proposed 36 single-family lot development would generate approximately 27 and 36 trips during the A.M. and P.M. peak hours, respectively. Therefore item 1 does not apply. The Valley Trails Drive and Hopyard Road intersection is currently operating at a Level of Service of C; therefore items 2 and 3 are not applicable. With respect to item 4, the project would require a General Plan land use change; however, the proposed use would generate fewer trips with the General Plan land use change than the existing Public and Institutional uses (hospitals, public schools, etc.) allowed under the existing land use designation. As result, the City's Traffic Engineer has determined that the project would result in an incremental increase in traffic, and that a Traffic Impact Assessment (TIA) is not required. The project would have a beneficial impact on pedestrian and bicycle circulation, by providing new trail connections to the Valley Trails Park and the existing trail system that extends east toward Hopyard Road. As a result, the project would not conflict with an applicable plan, ordinance, or policy establishing measures of effectiveness for the performance of the circulation system and the potential impact would be less than significant. There are no significant traffic impacts associated with the project; therefore, no mitigation is warranted. However, the applicant will be responsible for funding a traffic study and implementing any associated calming programs, if deemed warranted by the City's Traffic Engineer, once 18 of the homes (50% of the development) receive final inspections from the City's Building and Safety Division. The traffic calming program would further reduce the already less-than-significant impacts of the project on the traffic circulation system. The project would be conditioned such that the applicant would be responsible for retaining a traffic consultant/firm to assess the need for traffic mitigation measures within the Valley Trails neighborhood. The City's Traffic Engineer would review these findings and require the applicant to implement any changes deemed appropriate to promote traffic calming. b) The project would not create 100 or more new peak hour trips, and the project would not exceed, either individually or cumulatively, a level of service standard established by the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency for designated roads or highways. As a result, Alameda County Congestion Management Agency's Congestion Management Program 42