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increase in population and housing development than the Plan and would include all Plan policies and mitigation measures. This Alternative would generate a slightly lower level of criteria air pollutants than the Plan,but this reduction would not be sufficient to achieve BAAQMD thresholds for emissions of ROG, PM2.5, and PMIo and would therefore still result in a significant and unavoidable impact. With reduced overall development but planned High Density Residential development near multiple stationary sources, the impact of this Alternative on the health of sensitive receptors would be less than significant with mitigation. • Energy,Climate Change,and GHG Emissions:The Reduced Development Alternative would have similar significant impacts to the Plan in the area of energy, climate change, and GHG emissions. The Reduced Development Alternative would result in a smaller increase in population and housing development,and therefore VMT, than the Plan and would include all Plan policies and mitigation measures.This Alternative would generate a lower level of GHG emissions than the Plan but the reduction in growth would not be sufficient to achieve the efficiency metric which constitutes "sufficient progress" towards the goals established under SB 32 and EO S-3-05,given that the per capita emissions under the Plan significantly exceed the efficiency metric of 1.7 MTCO2e. Therefore, the Reduced Development Alternative would still have a significant and unavoidable impact on the environment due to GHG emissions and would conflict with plans aimed at reducing GHGs.Given the reduced residential development,energy consumption under the Reduced Development Alternative would be slightly lower than the Plan. Both the Reduced Development Alternative and the Plan would have a less than significant impact on energy consumption. • Traffic and Transportation: The Reduced Development Alternative would slightly reduce significant impacts in the area of traffic and transportation.The Reduced Development Alternative is expected to reduce the severity of the significant queue impacts identified at intersections 6, 11, 16, 17, and 21 under the Plan. This Alternative is expected to result in significant level of service impacts at intersections 1,7,and 17 that could be reduced to less than significant with mitigation following implementation of the mitigation measures identified for the Plan.As with the Plan,the bicycle facilities proposed under this Alternative would not be consistent with those contemplated for the City's Bicycle and Pedestrian Master Plan, and a plan amendment would be required to make this impact less than significant with mitigation. Finding: The City Council finds that this alternative is infeasible in that it would not achieve the Plan objectives and further that it would provide no significant advantage from an environmental standpoint over the Plan.This alternative would not lead to the same level of housing development as the Plan,and as a result would not contribute toward achieving the City's Regional Housing Needs Allocation responsibilities.Additionally,as this alternative restricts future residential development in the new Mixed Use—Downtown area,it may reduce the potential economic and community vitality improvements of the Plan by increasing the distance between residences and commercial resources. While the Reduced Development Alternative would satisfy most but not all of Plan objectives,impacts to air quality and climate change would remain significant and unavoidable under this alternative, and impacts to air quality and traffic and transportation would remain less than significant with mitigation proposed by the Plan. Other environmental resources would result in less than significant impacts,similar to the Plan. Environmentally Superior Alternative Alternative 2, the Reduced Development Alternative, would be the environmentally superior alternative given its reduced residential development potential and associated environmental effects (as compared to the Plan). The Reduced Development Alternative would reduce significant traffic impacts at multiple intersections in downtown Pleasanton and would generate a slightly lower level of criteria air pollutants 23