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The City received nearly 300 public comments during the period the RDSEIR was recirculated, though only 14 letters raised substantive comments on the adequacy of the RDSEIR, and most expressed support for or opposition to the project (with approximately 85 percent in favor and 14 percent in opposition). The City prepared responses to those comments in October and November 2019. Those responses, together with the DSEIR and the FSEIR (including all previous responses to comments prepared prior to the original approval of the JDEDZ), comprise the new Revised FSEIR ("RFSEIR") for the proposed project. The JDEDZ and the RFSEIR is now before the City Council for review and final consideration and action. Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (DSEIR) Conclusions Analysis of the impacts of the proposed JDEDZ indicated potentially significant and unavoidable impacts on air quality and transportation and traffic. The DSEIR found seven significant and unavoidable impacts (i.e., impacts that cannot be reduced to a less-than-significant level with mitigation). Air Quality The DSEIR found three significant and unavoidable impacts related to air quality: • Impact 4.B-2: The JDEDZ would generate a considerable net increase of criteria pollutants and precursors for which the air basin is already in nonattainment status under the existing ambient air quality standards. Mitigation Measure 4.B-3 would slightly reduce total criteria pollutants but not reduce emissions to less-than- significant levels. • Impact 4.B-3: Due to an increase of criteria pollutants and precursors, operation of uses within the proposed JDEDZ area would conflict with or obstruct implementation of the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's (BAAQMD) 2010 Clean Air Plan, and this impact would be significant and unavoidable. • Impact 4.B-6: The JDEDZ would generate operational emissions that would result in cumulative criteria air pollutant air quality impacts, when combined with past, present and other reasonably foreseeable development in the vicinity. As explained on page 14 of this report in the section entitled ("Partial Recirculated Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Conclusions"), the RDSEIR later found the above significant and unavoidable air quality impacts identified in the DSEIR are less than significant. Transportation and Traffic The DSEIR also found five significant and unavoidable impacts related to transportation and traffic. To summarize, the DSEIR found the JDEDZ will generate increased traffic, affecting the levels of service for freeway ramps along 1-680 and surface streets in and around the project area. It should be noted that proposed transportation mitigation improvements in the DSEIR would result in acceptable levels of service (i.e., duration of delay in traveling through an intersection), acceptable vehicle queue spillback (i.e., Page 11 of 23