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tLnbient transportation noise levels may be higher wi[h the Concurrent Extension due m additional through-traffic along Stoneridge Drive under project conditions. The Draft EIR analyzed these impacts at the cumulative level along with the impacts of additional traffic caused by cumulative projects. The Draft EIR determined that the cumulative ambient transportation noise impacts of the Project would be less than significant through implementation of mitigation measures identified at the project level. As such, while the Concurrent Extension could introduce additional ambient transportation noise impacts at an earlier date than the Deferred Extension, the Draft EIR has already analyzed such impacts at the cumulative Icvel and has deemed them to be less [han significant after mitigation. All other potenial noise impacts of the Concurrent Extension are the same as the Deferred Extension because the proposed uses of the project site with either scenario remain die same. The Concurren[ Extension therefore poses no new significant noise impacts or substantial increases in the severity of such impacts beyond those identified in the Draft EIR. 3.8 Population Em l~oyment and Housin¢ The potential population, employmen[ and housing impacts of the Concurren Extension are the same as the Deferred Extension because the Concurren[ Extension will not change the uses of the project site. Indirect population growth, if any, as a result of construe[ion of Sroneridge Drive could be induced at an earlier date as a result of the Concurren Extension, but the total amount of induced growth would be the same with the Concurrent Extension as wick the Deferred F.xrension. As stated in the Draft EIR, the growth-inducing impacts of the Project and the Ice Cener have been anticipated by the more intensive uses of the project site contemplated by the 1989 Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan (which assumes the Concurrent Extension), and are therefore less than significant. The Concurrent Extension therefore poses no new significant impacts to population, employment or housing, or substantial increases in the severity of such impacts beyond those identified in the Draft EIR. 3.9 Tragsportation Revising the Project to include the Concurrent Extension would not require recirculation hecause this revision would not result in new significant transportation impacts or incensify the severity of transportation impacts beyond chose already disclosed and assessed in the Draft EIR. As a threshold maaer, many of the project-level impacts analyzed in the transportation analysis of the Draft EIR are independent of the Deferred Extension, and are therefore the same whether the Extension is Deferred or Concurrent. These impacts include Impact TR-4 (air traffic patterns, Draft DEIR, page 3.9-40), Impact TR-> (BART expansion, Drak EIR, page 3.9-40), Impact TR-6 (design feature and incompatible use hazards, Draft EIR, page 3.9-41), Impact TR-7 (emergenry access, Draft EIR, page 3.9-42), Impact TR-8 (parking capacity, Draft EIR, page 43); Impact TR-9 (alternative transportation, Draft EIR, page 43); Impact TR-10 (freight SN45 i'; j~)S ire