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generates significantly more traffic than the Ice Center Alternative at roughly 1.3 times more traffic during the AM and PM peak hours and 1.5 times as many total daily trips. (Id.) If the freeway and arterial impacts of the Existing Specific Plan Alternative are less than significant and the Existing Specific Plan Alternative assumes the Concurrent Extension and generates significanty more traffic than the Project and the Ice Center Alternative, it follows that the freeway and arterial impacts of the Project and the Ice Center Alremative with the Concurrent Extension will also be less than significant because they generate significantly less traffic. As such, while the Concurrent Exrension will result in an unacceptable level of service at the Stoneridge Drive East of Santa Rita Road segment, this impact has already been assumed in the Draft EIR's analysis of the freeway and arterial impacts of the Existiug Specific Plan Alternative, which concluded that such changes in levels of service are less than significant because they have already been anticipated in the planning documents of the Alameda County Congestion Management Authority. The above demonstrates chat revising the Project to include the Concurrent Extension would not require recirculation because this revision would not result in new significant transportation impacts or intensify the severity of transportation impacts beyond [hose disclosed and assessed in the Draft EIR. D. .Signalization. The Draft EIR and Final EIR state tha[ certain opera ion and safety improvements will be necessary to accommodace full extension of Stoneridge Drive, although the Final EIR indicates that they are independent of the project. These improvements include Signalization of several intersections along Stoneridge Drive. (Draft EIR, page 3.9-1; Final EIR, page 3-24.) CEQA allows the addition of such mitigation measures without requiring recirculation, provided they do not result in new significant effects and are not rejected by the Ciry upon certification. (CEQA Guidelines g 15088.5(a)(1), (3).) For [he reasons stated above, the Concurrent Extension under the Project or the Ice Center Alternative therefore poses no new significant transportation impacts or substantial increases in the severity of such impacts beyond those identified in the Draft EIR. 3.10 Water Suvvly The Project will generate the same water demand with the Concurrent Extension as with the Deferred Extension because the Project's uses are the same under either scenario. The Concurrent Extension therefore will not pose any new significant water supply impacts or substantially increase the severity of a water supply impact beyond what is idemified in the Draft EIR. ~sasi~ia~ost~=