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( ~ ., approved a conceptual Staples Ranch Park Master plan for the Community Park. The master plan represented the results of an extensive community planning process begun in October 2006. On September 2, 2008, the City adopted core objectives concerning the proposed uses of the Community Park. The master plan and the core objectives contemplate active recreational uses of the Community Park, including sports fields, tennis courts, and an ice skating facility. The Open Space Alternative is infeasible because it conflicts with the active recreation goals and policies of the City by limiting the Community Park to passive uses that do not include sports fields, tennis courts or an ice skating facility. Alternative Project Site An alternative location was not assessed because such an analysis is not warranted for a specific plan project, and, as stated in the EIR, the Project Sponsor does not own other properties within the City of Pleasanton's sphere of influence. Environmentally Superior Alternative Section 15126(e)(2) of the State CEQA Guidelines requires identification of the environmentally superior alternative. Generally, impacts identified for the Existing Specific Plan and the Ice Center Alternatives would be similar, but slightly greater than those of the proposed project. These slightly greater impacts include contribution to an existing or projected air quality violation, potential construction and post-construction impacts on water quality, contribution to a jobs/housing imbalance, and impacts to the water supply and water treatment and distribution systems. Because the Existing Specific Plan Alternative would not include development of residential uses on the Staples Ranch site, the Existing Specific Plan Alternative would reduce, as compared to the proposed project, potential impacts for residential uses, such as exposure to sensitive receptors to TACs, and exposure of persons to, or generation of, noise levels in excess of standards. However, the Existing Specific Plan Alternative would also result in a new significant and unavoidable impact to ambient noise levels in the project area due to the increase in vehicle traffic as a result of development under this alternative. The impacts of the Open Space Alternative would be similar to those of the proposed project but slightly less than those of the proposed project. The Open Space Alternative would have slightly fewer water supply, water quality, visual, noise, air quality, and traffic impacts, and would likely create more opportunities for wildlife habitat than the proposed project. The No Project (No Build) Alternative is considered a no project, and CEQA requires the ident~cetion of an alternative other than the No Project Alternative as the environmentally superior alternative (see CEQA Guidelines, Section 15126.6(e)(2)). Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project Environmental Impact Report Findings and Statement of Overtiding Considerations Page 12 of 30