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The Open Space Alternative would result in slightly fewer impacts than the proposed project. Therefore, the Open Space Alternative would be considered environmentally superior to the proposed project and to the other alternatives. FINDINGS FOR SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS IDENTIFIED IN THE EIR This section presents the project's significant environmental impacts and feasible mitigation measures. Section 15091 of the State CEQA Guidelines (14 California Code of Regulations [CCR]) and Section 21081 of the Public Resources Code require a lead agency to adopt findings for each significant environmental impact disclosed in an EIR. These requirements are set forth on page 1 of this document. Below are the findings for the significant impacts identified in the EIR for the proposed project. Because the City adopts all of the mitigation measures recommended in the EIR for each significant environmental impact and the EIR concludes that they will avoid or substantially lessen each of the identified significant impacts, with the exception of aesthetic and visual resources, air quality and traffic impacts, the significant and unavoidable impacts of which are also discussed in the EIR, thorough descriptions of each impact and each associated mitigation measure can be obtained from the EIR and, therefore, are not repeated below. Aesthetic and Visual Resources 1. Effect on scenic resources and visual character of the site Finding. Development of the proposed land uses within the Project Area would have a significant and unavoidable impact on the existing visual character by changing the site from rural open space to urban development. There are no measures available to mitigate the loss of the rural character of the Project Area, short of leaving large portions of the area undeveloped, which would be incompatible with the project objectives. A statement of overriding considerations for this impact is made in the following section. DEIR, p. 3.1-11 2. Light and/or glare effects Finding. The City finds that the following mitigation measures are feasible and have been incorporated into the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan (MMRP), thereby mitigating the impact to aless-than-significant level: • Refer a conceptual lighting plan to the Alameda County ALUC for its review prior to consideration of all PUD development plans, per MM VQ- 3.1. Refer a conceptual lighting plan to the FAA, if requested by the FAA, prior to consideration of all PUD development plans, per MM VQ-3.1. Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project Environmental Impact Report Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations Page 13 of 30