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8. (continued) <br />Finding: Project can be phased and/or total project approval <br />can be reserved pending assessment of market factors yielding <br />increased requirements for alternate uses of land. <br />Facts: Project can proceed on logical basis fulfilling <br />existing and foreseeable market demand. Options will be <br />left open for future changes in land use. <br />9. Significant Effect: Increase in traffic volume beyond the <br />existing circulation system capacity. <br />Finding: Formation and implementation of assessment districts <br />to provide for system improvements will mitigate impacts. <br />Fact: Assessment district improvements will provide for <br />freeway interchange improvements, freeway and local street <br />widening, traffic control signals, and similar improvements <br />to accommodate increased traffic levels in the North Pleasanton <br />area. <br />Finding: Transit and transportation systems management programs <br />will reduce the .traffic levels during commute hours. <br />Fact: Certain companies within the project will be required <br />_ to participate in a program of vanpooling, carpooling, and <br />alternative work-hours in order to reduce the dependence on <br />the single-occupancy vehicle and the traffic congestion. <br />Finding: Phasing of project buildout in conjunction with <br />necessary improvements will reduce the impacts of increased <br />traffic levels. <br />Facts: The phasing of construction and corresponding traffic- <br />related improvements will provide for gradual accommodation <br />of capacity needs and prevent congestion beyond acceptable <br />service levels. <br />Finding: Economic, social, and environmental considerations <br />make further reductions in the scale of the project infeasible. <br />Facts: The scale of the project is necessary in maintaining <br />the marketability of the site in order to provide increased <br />employment opportunities to the local community and to <br />increase the tax base of the City. <br />10. Significant Effect: Increase in traffic levels will create <br />unacceptable noise levels affecting existing residential <br />areas. <br />Finding: The use of construction techniques, insulation <br />materials, and soundwalls will reduce noise to acceptable <br />levels. <br />Facts: The project developers will be required to conduct <br />accoustical analyses in the residential areas to determine and <br />fund necessary noise mitigation measures. <br />