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The DER 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 concerns that have caused City wells to be taken offline, as the City has yet to determine the most appropriate way to secure replacement water supply. It is important to note that this is a conservative conclusion, and the City is confident that the current supply issues will ultimately be able to be addressed, whether through working with Zone 7, conservation approaches, or other strategies under review. New development also provides the opportunity to integrate more efficient fixtures, water efficient landscaping and other strategies required by the most recently adopted building codes, thereby lessening overall new water demand. The water supply is not site specific, as the RHNA unit requirement 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 in Hacienda have VMT per capita only marginally above the threshold, whereas others are much more significantly above the threshold. 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. Page 11 of 21