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this alternative would further degrade operations of freeway ramps at merge/diverge areas that are already operating at unacceptable levels, and this alternative would likely result in impacts related to spillback. Other environmental resources would experience less than significant impacts, similar to the proposed Zone. Finding: The City Council finds that, while the Partial Buildout Alternative would reduce all impacts to air quality that would be significant and unavoidable under the proposed Zone to a less -than -significant level, other impacts to transportation and traffic would remain significant and unavoidable with this alternative. The City further finds that, while it provides an advantage from an environmental standpoint over the proposed Zone, the Partial Buildout Alternative is infeasible in that it would not accomplish the City's basic objectives for the proposed Zone to a satisfactory extent: the substantial benefits articulated by the City in its objectives would not be likely to be provided under this alternative, as discussed below. 1. City Objective 1: Provide a consistent framework for the City's review and approval of new uses and projects in the area of the proposed Zone, encouraging investment in and adding value to these properties. Like the Reduced Retail Alternative, the Partial Buildout Alternative would include the adoption of a version of the proposed Zone and would therefore provide a framework for the City's review and approval of new uses and projects. In addition, the Partial Buildout Alternative would include the club retail use and therefore a large retail anchor, unlike the Reduced Retail Alternative. However, like the Reduced Retail Alternative, the Partial Buildout Alternative would limit the total area of uses developed within the area of the Zone to approximately 259,500 square feet; investment in properties within the area of the Zone would therefore occur to a lesser extent than would occur under development of the Zone, which would work against City Objective 1. 2. City Objective 2: Maximize the benefits of the location of the area of the proposed Zone as an infill site located along transportation corridors and near transit by encouraging the development of both locally and regionally accessible uses in the area of the proposed Zone. Although it would include a club retail use suited to the location of the area of the Zone near both the I- 680 and the 1-580, the Partial Buildout Alternative would include a much lower total area of general retail use, and a lower area of total new gross building space; therefore, the mix and amount of uses that would be provided under the Partial Buildout Alternative would, like the Reduced Retail Alternative, not serve to "maximize" the unique benefits of the location of the area of the Zone as stated in City Objective 2, especially in comparison to the proposed Zone. 3. City Objective 3: Encourage the development of a diverse mix of uses in the City that would promote long-term economic growth by generating substantial new revenues for the City. A comparison of the fiscal benefits of a development program largely similar to the proposed Zone with an alternate development program with the same characteristics as the Partial Buildout Alternative was prepared for the area of the proposed Zone in 2015 (see Appendix C of the Draft SEIR, Johnson Drive EDZ Land Use Study 58