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Page 2 kimley-horn.com 4637 Chabot Drive, Suite 300, Pleasanton, CA 94588 925.398.4840 156380685.4 The 360 residential units will be located within a five-story building, with a small surface parking lot and motor-court, and wrapping around a resident only parking garage. The surface parking lot would be located just north of the parking garage with primary access through Drive Aisle A. The parking garage will be located within the core of the residential building and “wrapped” by the residential structure (not visible to the adjacent public roadways). The Project also reflects a 40-foot setback along the east side, based upon the City’s guidance for future widening of Stoneridge Mall Road. The Project is proposing to close seven (7) and redesign two (2) existing driveways accessing the existing retail surface parking lot along Stoneridge Mall Road, adjacent to the east and south sides of the Project site. The existing main east-west drive aisle just south of the Sears parking garage would remain and is shown as Drive Aisle A in the Project site plan. The primary garage access would be accessed from Drive Aisle A and is located approximately 100 feet to the west of the intersection of Stoneridge Mall Road and Drive Aisle A. The proposed layout would include a new north-south drive aisle (Drive Aisle B) that would connect to Drive Aisle A just south of the existing Sears parking garage and to the east-west portion of Stoneridge Mall Road. An additional driveway is proposed to the east of Drive Aisle B that provides direct access to the parking garage. To navigate through congestion in the area, the Project incorporates a roadway “Keep Clear” pavement legend in the southbound direction along Stoneridge Mall Road adjacent to the east driveway. This would allow vehicles to enter the intersection when the southbound queue on Stoneridge Mall Road extends beyond the east driveway. Although there is known congestion along southbound Stoneridge Mall Road in the PM peak as a result of employees leaving the nearby office uses to access I-680, the Project is expected to contribute traffic mainly in the opposing direction as most residents are entering the Project site during the PM peak. Similarly, to the north of the Project site, along Stoneridge Mall Road near the West Dublin/Pleasanton BART Station, there is congestion along westbound Stoneridge Mall Road in the PM peak as a result of office employees and BART riders leaving the study area to access I-580. The Project is expected to contribute traffic mainly in the opposing direction as most residents are entering the Project site during the PM peak. C.PREVIOUS STUDIES The City approved an expansion of 558,000 square feet of retail uses at Stoneridge Mall when it approved the First Amendment to the Stoneridge Mall Development Agreement in 1997. As of 2012, some of the approved expansion had been built, and approximately 353,500 square feet currently remained to be built. The City conduced traffic studies in connection with its 2012 Housing Element that addressed the impact of residential development at the housing opportunity sites its identified, plus full buildout of the remaining 353,000 square feet of commercial uses at Stoneridge Mall. The City has conducted other traffic studies since then, which also studied impacts of full buildout of commercial uses at Stoneridge Shopping Center. This section discusses those previous traffic studies.1 1 Though road capacity is no longer relevant to CEQA impacts or mitigation measures, this report references the CEQA “impacts” and “mitigation measures” identified by prior studies because those studies were undertaken before CEQA was amended to prohibit reliance on road capacity as a measure of significance.