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potential growth could significantly affect the environment in some other way. Chapter 6, Section A of the Draft SEIR provides an analysis of growth -inducing effects of the proposed Zone, as required by CEQA Guidelines § 15126.2(d). With the exception of the potential development of a minor amount of senior housing, the proposed Zone would not directly induce substantial population growth. As discussed in the SEIR, population growth that could be induced as a consequence of new employees working with the area of the Zone moving to the City would not be substantial; therefore, the proposed Zone is not likely to induce substantial indirect population growth. In addition, the area of the proposed Zone is currently served by water, sanitary sewer, stormwater, and other roadway and utility infrastructure, and any needed upgrades to these systems would not be likely to be of a scale that would induce substantial population growth. Improvements to local roadways and I-680 would be undertaken to accommodate the proposed Zone, and would likewise not be likely to stimulate substantial further growth in the area. Accordingly, the City Council finds that the proposed Zone effects related to indirectly facilitating population growth would be minor, and that the Project's benefits substantially outweigh the eight significant and unavoidable impacts as demonstrated below in the Statement of Overriding Considerations. II. STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS Pursuant to Public Resources Code §21081 and CEQA Guidelines § 15093, the City Council has balanced the economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the proposed Zone against the Zone's eight significant and unavoidable impacts and has adopted all feasible mitigation measures. The City Council has also examined three potentially feasible alternatives to the proposed Zone, neither of which are feasible in that they 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 the alternatives). The City has adopted mitigation measures that reduce, to the extent feasible, the significant environmental effects of the Project. The City Council hereby adopts and makes the following Statement of Overriding Considerations regarding the significant and unavoidable impacts of the proposed Zone and the anticipated economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the Zone. A. Significant and Unavoidable Impacts Based on information contained in the record and in the SEIR, the City Council has determined that the proposed Zone would result in significant and unavoidable impacts to: (1) air quality due to emissions of NOx and PM 10 that would results from operation of uses that would be developed within the area of the proposed Zone, and that would exceed BAAQMD significance thresholds; and (2) traffic and transportation due to the possibility of substantial increases in traffic to local study intersections under Existing plus Project conditions, Near-term plus Project conditions, and Far -term (Cumulative) plus Project conditions; and to freeway ramps at merge/diverge areas under Existing plus Project conditions and Far -term (Cumulative) plus Project conditions. Table 2 presented under I.K.2, above, illustrates the impacts to Transportation and 60