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and the Ice Center Alternative. (See, Table 35 and 37 of the Staples Ranch Traffic Report.) This analysis is included in the Draft EIR because the Draft EIR incorporates the Staples Ranch Traffic Report by reference and specifically refers readers to the Staples Ranch Traffic Report for more detail regarding the potential impacts of the Concurrent Extension under both the Project and the Ice Center Alternative. (ii) Concurrent Extension Impact Number 2 In the second instance, and again with regard to both the Project and the Ice Center Alternative, the Concurrent Extension would generate traffic which would contribute to an unacceptable level of service at an intersection that would have an acceptable level of service under the Deferred Extension (Intersection No. 32 (Santa Rita Road at Stoneridge Drive) in the AM and PM peak hour). The Draft EIR identifies this impact as a significant impact of the Concurrent Extension under the Existing Specific Plan Alternative (which, like the approved project, assumes the Concurrent Extension), and states that the Staples Ranch Traffic Report identifies mitigation measures that would render the impact less than significant. (See, Draft EIR, pp. 5-17 to 5-20, referencing the Staples Ranch Traffic Report for the mitigation measures required to reduce the impact to a less than significant level, which are specified in Tables 35 and 37 of the Staples Ranch Traffic Report.) This impact therefore does not constitute a "new significant impact" because the impact and its requisite mitigation measure have already been identified in the Draft EIR. The Project Sponsor consequently shall finance the improvement of Santa Rita Road at Stoneridge Drive (#32), as referred in the Draft EIR and further specified in the Staples Ranch Traffic Report, including widening the northbound approach to provide a separate right-turn lane, restriping one eastbound right lane to a shared eastbound through lane, except that restriping of an eastbound right turn lane to a free right turn lane shall occur instead of reducing pedestrian clearance to 21 seconds. The timing of these improvements is identified in the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Plan. The City shall change cycle length to 130 and 120 seconds for AM and PM, respectively. The Draft EIR and Final EIR also state that full extension of Stoneridge Drive may result in a need for off-site safety improvements, such as potential signalization, to minor intersections along Stoneridge Drive east of the Santa Rita Road intersection. (Draft EIR, page 3.9-1; 4-18, 4-19; Final EIR, page 3- 24.) This does not constitute a significant impact because such intersections are minor intersections; the LOS D standard of significance for the City applies only to major intersections, such as Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project Environmental impact Report Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations Page 35 of 47