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The City received nearly 300 public comments during the period the RDSEIR was recirculated,
<br /> though only 14 letters raised substantive comments on the adequacy of the RDSEIR, and most
<br /> expressed support for or opposition to the project (with approximately 85 percent in favor and
<br /> 14 percent in opposition). The City prepared responses to those comments in October and
<br /> November 2019. Those responses, together with the DSEIR and the FSEIR (including all
<br /> previous responses to comments prepared prior to the original approval of the JDEDZ),
<br /> comprise the new Revised FSEIR ("RFSEIR") for the proposed project.
<br /> The JDEDZ and the RFSEIR is now before the Planning Commission for review and
<br /> recommendation to the City Council for final consideration and action.
<br /> Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (DSEIR) Conclusions
<br /> Analysis of the impacts of the proposed JDEDZ indicated potentially significant and unavoidable
<br /> impacts on air quality and transportation and traffic. The DSEIR found seven significant and
<br /> unavoidable impacts (i.e., impacts that cannot be reduced to a less-than-significant level with
<br /> mitigation). The DSEIR found three significant and unavoidable impacts related to air quality:
<br /> • Impact 4.B-2: The JDEDZ would generate a considerable net increase of criteria
<br /> pollutants and precursors for which the air basin is already in nonattainment status
<br /> under the existing ambient air quality standards. Mitigation Measure 4.B-3 would slightly
<br /> reduce total criteria pollutants but not reduce emissions to less-than-significant levels.
<br /> • Impact 4.B-3: Due to an increase of criteria pollutants and precursors, operation of
<br /> uses within the proposed JDEDZ area would conflict with or obstruct implementation of
<br /> the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAAQMD) 2010 Clean Air Plan, and
<br /> this impact would be significant and unavoidable.
<br /> • Impact 4.B-6: The JDEDZ would generate operational emissions that would result in
<br /> cumulative criteria air pollutant air quality impacts, when combined with past, present
<br /> and other reasonably foreseeable development in the vicinity.
<br /> As explained in the following section ("Partial Recirculated Draft Supplemental Environmental
<br /> Impact Report Conclusions"), the RDSEIR later found the above significant and unavoidable air
<br /> quality impacts identified in the DSEIR are either less than significant or less than significant
<br /> with mitigation.
<br /> The DSEIR also found four significant and unavoidable impacts related to transportation and
<br /> traffic. To summarize, the DSEIR found the JDEDZ will generate increased traffic, affecting the
<br /> levels of service for freeway ramps along 1-680 and surface streets in and around the project
<br /> area. It should be noted that proposed transportation mitigation improvements in the DSEIR
<br /> would result in acceptable levels of service (i.e., duration of delay in traveling through an
<br /> intersection), acceptable vehicle queue spillback (i.e., backed-up traffic potentially affecting
<br /> operation of an upstream intersection), and acceptable freeway ramp operations. However,
<br /> traffic impacts are characterized as significant and unavoidable because some of the needed
<br /> improvements require approval by Caltrans and thus are outside the immediate control of the
<br /> City. The graphics below (Figures 2 and 3) are intended to provide an overview of the required
<br /> transportation mitigation improvements resulting from the implementation of the JDEDZ. For
<br /> more detailed information, please refer to Chapter 4.D of the DSEIR (Exhibit D).
<br /> The DSEIR concluded that other impacts from the JDEDZ on aesthetics, air quality, biological
<br /> resources, cultural resources, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and
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