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• Response: The commenter may refer to the Master Response to Comments About the Timing and Funding of Traffic Mitigation Measures,which addresses how traffic mitigations will be paid for, apportioned,and timed. 3. What is the future impact of the proposed WB 1-580 to SB I-680 flyover to Mitigation Measure 4.D- Id? Will the mitigations preclude or make more costly the flyover based on the newly constructed bridges? Response: Implementation of the mitigation addressing the 1-680 northbound ramps will be developed in consultation with Caltrans such that the final design does not adversely affect other freeway improvements along the corridor. 4. Mitigation Measure 4.D-2: What is the status and timing of these regional improvements?If the regional improvements are not made in the near future after the project is constructed, the impacts will not be mitigated and the community will suffer the traffic impacts until there are. Response: The commenter may refer to the Master Response to Comments About the Timing and Funding of Traffic Mitigation Measures, which addresses how traffic mitigations will be paid for, apportioned, and timed. 4. MS Comment The Pleasanton General Plan Vision Statement stipulates that "Pleasanton is committed to sustainable community principles and will meet the needs of the current generation without compromising the ability offuture generations to meet their needs." The General Plan goes on to say "A sustainable city draws from the environment only those resources that are necessary and that can be used or recycled perpetually, or returned to the environment in a form that nature can use to generate more resources. Sustainability includes long-term fiscal health for the City as well as conserving natural resources, reducing energy usage, and emitting fewer air pollutants." The General Plan contains many Goals and Programs related to sustainability, including a sampling below: Land Use Element, Goal 1: Create a land use pattern that promotes resource sustainability and environmental quality. Circulation Element, Policy 15:Reduce the total number of average daily traffic trips throughout the city. Air Quality Element, Goal 2:Promote sustainable development and planning to minimize additional air emissions. Air Quality Element, Program 2.1:Implement programs from the Land Use Element to provide mixed-use developments, locate high-density uses near transit facilities, and provide neighborhood-serving retail uses convenient to residential neighborhoods. These programs would reduce vehicle trips and vehicle miles traveled, thus reducing air pollutant emissions. The DSEIR Impact 4.B-3 indicates that the operation of new uses within the proposed EDZ area would conflict, even after mitigation, with or obstruct implementation of the Bay Area 2010 Clean Air Plan, and this impact would be significant and unavoidable.