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larger grading footprint. The impact of grading of the overall Environmentally Superior Alternative, however, is reduced due to the reduction of total lots than the Original Project. • Biological Resources -Alternative 4 improves on the Original Project by greatly reducing the amount of fill placed in drainages and reducing impacts on wetlands and ephemeral streams. • Geology, Soils, and Seismicity -Some construction in landslide /geologically unstable areas would be reduced by the removal of homesites. • Traffic -Reducing the number of lots from 98 to 51 units would reduce the number of average daily traffic trips from 938 to 488 or by approximately 48%. The result of these reductions would be to reduce the impacts at the Angela/Bernal intersection from an unacceptable LOS "E" to an acceptable LOS "D" and at the Hearst Drive/Bernal Avenue intersection from LOS F to LOS E. • Police and Fire Services -The Original Project proposed two EVAs to serve 98 homes while Alternative 4 proposes one fire road and one all surface road (in addition to Hearst Drive itself) to serve 51 homes. With the reduction in number of units the Fire Department finds these provisions to be acceptable. No adverse impacts were found for Alternative 4 that were not also found for the Original Project. Alternative 4 would provide mitigation of impacts superior to the mitigation provided by the Original Project in the area of Biological Resources because the amount of fill placed in drainages is reduced and thus impacts on wetlands and ephemeral streams are also reduced. Accordingly, it is found to be the Environmentally Superior Alternative. The No Project Alternative Description An EIR is required to consider a "No Project" alternative. to the case of the Oak Grove Planned Unit Development, the no project scenario takes as its starting point the existing planning designation applicable to the site. As described in the DEIR, the 562- acre site carries two designations: On the 489 acres within the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB), the designation is Rural Density Residential (RDR), which allows no more than one dwelling unit per five gross acres, or 98 dwelling units. On the 73 acres outside the UGB, the designation is Public Health and Safety, which allows no development other than asingle-family dwelling unit on existing private lots of record. (There is no existing lot of record for this area.) The Oak Grove Planned Unit Development is consistent with the level of development the General Plan contemplates as the Original Project proposes exactly the maximum number of residential units that the General Plan allows. The No Project Alternative would be a project similarly consistent with the General Plan (i.e., a residential project of 98 units) but possibly configured in a different manner from the Original Project. Page 8 of 43