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DEIR, p. 3.9-43 6. Potential to result in an increase in construction traffic that could impact existing Pleasanton neighborhoods Finding. The City finds that the following mitigation measure is feasible and has been incorporated into the MMRP, thereby mitigating the impact to a less-than- significant level: Develop a construction access plan to be reviewed and approved by the City's Engineering Department, per MM TR-12.1. DEIR, p. 3.9-46 Findings Demonstrating No Need for Recirculation 1. Effect of Concurrent Extension on Transportation and Traffic 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 those already disclosed and assessed in the Draft EIR. As a threshold matter, 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-5 (BART expansion, Draft EIR, page 3.9-40), Impact TR-6 (design feature and incompatible use hazards, Draft EIR, page 3.9-41), Impact TR-7 (emergency 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 and truck traffic, Draft EIR, page 45); TR-11 (neighborhood residential streets, Draft EIR, page 46); and Impact TR-12 (construction traffic, Draft EIR, page 46). Certain other project-level transportation impacts may differ in the event the Project is revised to include the Concurrent Extension. As indicated below, the identification of these five Concurrent Extension Impacts do not constitute "new significant information" requiring recirculation of the EIR because the Draft EIR's cumulative analysis and Existing Specific Plan Alternative analysis already identify and assess them. Further, the EIR's supporting traffic study verifies the conclusion that the EIR already analyzes the effects of the Concurrent Extension. While the Draft EIR transportation analysis assumes, and therefore focuses on, the Deferred Extension, it explains that the Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment -Staples Ranch Technical Memorandum for Traffic and Circulation, December 7, 2007, revised March 20, 2008 (the "Staples Stoneridgc Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project linvironmental Impact Report Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations Page 33 of 47