PC-2010-11, ALAMEDA COUNTY SURPLUS PROPERTY AUTHORITY

1) STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS _ The City has determined to approve the preferred project, a hybrid of the Four -Lane Concurrent Extension Alternative and the Two -Lane Constrained Extension Alternative, because it provides greater social and economic benefits than the proposed project without creating significantly greater environmental impacts. This statement of overriding considerations presents the City's determination that the preferred project's broader public and environmental objectives outweigh the anticipated significant and unavoidable environmental impacts of the project, as identified in the CEQA Findings, the SEIR and the EIR. Significant and Unavoidable Environmental Impacts of the Preferred Project The CEQA Findings, the SEIR and EIR identify the following significant and unavoidable impacts of the preferred project: • Aesthetics and Visual Quality - as a result of conversion of the Staples Ranch site from undeveloped to developed land and the loss of the rural character of the Project Area. • Air Quality - as a result of emissions of ozone precursors (reactive organic gases and oxides of nitrogen) and particulate matter .from mobile and stationary sources, above thresholds used by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). • Climate Change - the preferred project would result in a cumulatively considerable and unavoidable contribution to the significant cumulative impact of climate change. • Noise - under the noise significance threshold of the Pleasanton General Plan 2005-2025, this impact remains a significant and unavoidable impact under project conditions and a considerable and unavoidable impact under cumulative conditions. • Traffic as a result of increased project trips at two study area intersections outside the jurisdiction of Pleasanton under project conditions, and two intersections outside the jurisdiction of Pleasanton . under cumulative conditions, this impact remains significant if the other jurisdictions decide not to implement the proposed mitigation measures. In addition, under cumulative conditions, there is a significant impact at the intersection of Dublin Boulevard at Dougherty Road (#D1), also outside the jurisdiction of the City of Pleasanton; the City of Dublin has stated, however, that the mitigation for this intersection is infeasible. Also, under project conditions, during the time Stoneridge Drive is striped one lane, in each direction, the preferred project will not exceed any Alameda County Congestion Management Agency's standards for arterial roadway segments. Once, however, Stoneridge Drive is striped for two lanes in 38 Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations