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EXHIBIT A c c m c 0 u c 0 m t: 0 a N C c m m x d 2 Hexagon Traffic & Transportation Engineering Services Transportation ImpactAnalvsis and EIRS Hexagon staff has prepared well over 500 Transportation Impact Analysis (TIA) reports and Circulation sections of EIRS for all types of new development in numerous jurisdictions. The projects have ranged from as small as one gas station or five houses to as large as 10 million square feet of research and development space (Edenvale area of San Jose) or 3,000 homes (Evergreen Specific Plan). The most common types of new development that we analyze are residential subdivisions, apartment buildings, hotels, offices, and shopping centers. Shopping centers range from small neighborhood centers with grocery store anchors up to super regional malls with four department stores and over one million square feet. Other developments Hexagon staff has studied include theaters (live and cinema), health clubs, parks, golf courses, day care centers, restaurants, warehouses, gas stations, churches, hospitals, medical buildings, a city hall, a fire station, and even a sanitary landfill. Transportation impact studies include extensive intersection and roadway traffic counts, the development of traffic count databases, and intersection level of service analysis which always plays a large part. Hexagon staff is fully familiar with all types of Level of Service software and is experienced with databases ranging from 1-140 intersections. All traffic impact studies also include an analysis of pedestrian, bicycle, and transit issues and recommendations for improvements if necessary. Many traffic impact studies also include an evaluation of roadway safety. These typically include accident diagnosis, computation of accidental rates and recommendations for potential improvements. Transportation impact analyses are almost always prepared at the direction of city or county staff. We have worked with city and county staff in every county and almost every city in the San Francisco Bay Area. We also have worked extensively in Monterey, Carmel, Watsonville, Hollister, Salinas, Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. All TIAs involve traffic data collection and analysis using the techniques that are accepted in the county and city where the project is located. Hexagon staff is sensitive to local traffic issues and local preferences. tt is our policy to always research local standards and practices prior to initiating a study. We balance the needs of the developer and of the city when we identify impacts, and we recommend only practical mitigation measures. While in many ways EIRS resemble traffic impact analyses, there are additional considerations taken with EIRS. EIRS are subject to a great deal more public scrutiny, and therefore, they often include extensive analysis of potential neighborhood cut-through traffic, parking spillover, or other impacts. Also, they require formal responses to comments with extensive documentation of conclusions. In addition, EIRS typically include much more detailed mitigation plans and programs because all transportation impacts must be mitigated or subject to overriding considerations. Often EIRS are done at the program level, rather than project level, and then they resemble long-range areawide plans. The project definition becomes a significant issue because exact land use proposals are not usually known. Hexagon staff has extensive experience with program-level EIRS and is capable of handling very general project descriptions. Hexagon staff is also very familiar with the various steps in the planning process that are subject to EIRS: general plan amendments, re-zonings, and specific project development permits. Hexagon's capabilities include all the transportation analysis techniques that are necessary for various types of EIRS that include travel demand forecasting, traffic engineering, traffic operations analysis, and parking demand analysis. A partial list of transportation impact analyses and EIRS completed by Hexagon are shown in the following table.