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Existing Specific Plan Alternative because the Existing Specific Plan Alternative assumes the Concurrent Extension and generates approximately 1.5 times more traffic than the Project during the AM and PM peak hours, and nearly twice as many total daily trips. (Draft EIR, pages 5-16, 5-22.) The Existing Specific Plan Alternative also 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 significantly 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 Alternative with the Concurrent Extension will also be less than significant because they generate significantly less traffic. As such, while the Concurrent Extension 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 Existing 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 that 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 disclosed and assessed in the Draft EIR. For the 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. Water Supply Findings Regarding Significant Impacts 1. Potentially significant impact on the proposed project's demand for water 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: Verify water supply prior to tentative map approval. The water supply verification must include documentation of historical water deliveries for the previous 20 years, as well as a description of reasonably foreseeable impacts of the proposed project on the availability of water resources in the region, per MM WS-1.1. Stoneridge Drive Specific Plan Amendment and Staples Ranch Project Environmental Impact Report Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations Page 39 of 47