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arrangement of uses, location of roads and limit of disturbed areas would be the same <br />as in Alternative 1. <br />This alternative locates 80 homes on a smaller development footprint than proposed by <br />the Original Project. In doing so it is generally identical to Alternative 1. <br />Finding: Feasible <br />The DEIR identified the same differences in the environmental effects of Alternative 2 <br />as compared with the Original Project with the exception that, as a result of the <br />reduction in number of homesites, peak-hour trips would be approximately 16 percent to <br />18 percent less than the Original Project. This reduction would, however, generate the <br />same general impacts and would require the same mitigation measures as the Original <br />Project. <br />Alternative 3 -Transportation Alternative <br />Description <br />Alternative 3 would provide a second public road access in addition to that provided by <br />Hearst Drive into the site. The route would be toward the north through the Berlogar <br />property to a connection with New Vineyard Avenue. The rationale for this alternate <br />access road is that it could reduce project traffic on Bernal Avenue. <br />This alternative is identical to the Original Project in that it would situate 98 homes on <br />the 562-acre site. It differs from the Original Project only in the provision of this <br />supplemental access route. <br />Finding: Infeasible <br />The traffic analysis evaluating this second-road-access alternative concluded that the <br />alternative would not be successful in diverting enough project traffic to have a <br />substantial effect in reducing future congestion in Pleasanton's road network. Thus, <br />because Alternative 3 would not effectively serve the principal purpose for which it was <br />formulated, it was not subjected to an environmental analysis at the same level of detail <br />as the site plan alternatives. If it had been, it is reasonable to believe that it would be <br />found to have a number of environmental impacts -including impacts on biological <br />resources, hydrology and drainage, geology -the stability of the alternate access route <br />in an area of mapped landslides, and noise that are greater in geographic extent or <br />magnitude than the impacts of the Original Project and the other land use alternatives. <br />Page 6 of 45 <br />