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Draft Housing Element December 14, 2022 11 of 21 that any sites should be considered more or less favorable based on the analysis of those impact areas. The DEIR identifies significant and unavoidable impacts in both Transportation and Utilities and Service Systems. In terms of Utilities and Service Systems, the significant and unavoidable impact relates to projected water supply, due to the recently-identified PFAS issues that have caused City wells to be taken off-line, and fact the City is yet to determine the most appropriate way to secure replacement water supply. The water supply is not site specific, as the RHNA unit requirements does not change regardless of which sites are included (i.e., the impact is driven by the number of units the City is required to zone for, to meet the RHNA). However, regarding Transportation, the significant and unavoidable impact relates to VMTs. Many of the potential sites for rezoning are located in areas which are expected to generate a home-based VMT per resident above the relevant threshold of significance. While almost all sites are above the level of significance (for both project- level and cumulative), some sites have relatively better VMT per capita than others. For example, Area 2 (Stoneridge Mall), and several of the sites i n Hacienda have VMT per capita only marginally above the threshold, whereas others are much more significantly above. Since this impact would be significant and unavoidable, sites which have relatively lower VMTs are considered to be more favorable. Site by site projected VMT impacts are noted below in Table 1.