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Traffic that would be significant and unavoidable; which physical locations (e.g., specific intersections or freeway on -ramps) would be affected; to what extent mitigation measures would reduce the level of impact; which impacts would remain significant and unavoidable after mitigation; and which impacts would be significant and unavoidable due to substantial uncertainty regarding Caltrans' discretionary review of the improvements contained in the measure. As discussed previously, Mitigation Measure 4.D-ld is infeasible due to substantial uncertainty regarding Caltrans' review and approval of the improvement described in the measure, and Mitigation Measures 4.D -la, 4.D -lb, 4.D -lc, and 4.D -1d are interdependent (i.e., all of these measures must be implemented to reduce the impact to Stoneridge Drive [queue spillback] to less than significant). (Draft SEIR, pp. 4.B-18 to 4.B-21, 4.B-21 to 4.B-23, 4.B-24 to 4.B-25; 4.D-20 to 4.D-38, 4.D-38 to 4.D-44, 4.D-44 to 4.D-50, 4.D-52 to 4.D-53, 4.D-55 to 4.D-56.) B. Finding The City Council has considered all potentially feasible mitigation measures to substantially lessen or avoid the proposed Zone's significant and unavoidable impacts. Where feasible, mitigation measures have been adopted as part of the proposed Zone. The imposition of these measures will reduce the identified impacts, but not in all cases to a less -than -significant level. The City Council finds that it is not feasible to fully mitigate these impacts. The City Council has also considered all potentially feasible alternatives to the proposed Zone. The City Council finds that there are no feasible alternatives that would reduce all of the above significant and unavoidable impacts to a less -than -significant level. The impacts of the proposed Zone discussed above therefore remain significant and unavoidable. C. Overriding Considerations After review of the entire administrative record, including, but not limited to, the Final SEIR, the staff report, and the oral and written testimony and evidence presented at public hearings, the City Council finds that specific economic, legal, social, technological and other anticipated benefits of the proposed Zone outweigh the significant and unavoidable impacts, and therefore justify the approval of the proposed Zone notwithstanding the identified significant and unavoidable impacts. (Pub. Res. Code, §21081; CEQA Guidelines §15093.) The benefits are addressed in detail in Section II.D below. The City Council specifically adopts and makes this Statement of Overriding Considerations that the proposed Zone has eliminated or substantially lessened all significant effects on the environment where feasible (including the incorporation of feasible mitigation measures), and finds that the remaining significant unavoidable impacts of the Zone, which are described above in Section II.A, are acceptable because the benefits of the proposed Zone set forth below in Section II.D outweigh them. The City Council finds that each of the overriding considerations expressed as benefits and set forth below in Section II.D constitutes a separate and independent grounds for such a finding. Any one of the reasons for approval cited below is sufficient to justify approval of the proposed Zone. Thus, even if a court were to conclude that not every reason is supported by substantial evidence, the City Council will stand by its determination 61