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approximately 1,970 weekday daily trips) and a lower number of traffic trips than the Project(a difference of approximately 5,370 weekday daily trips, or 44 percent). Other significant and unavoidable traffic and transportation impacts that would occur with implementation of the Project would remain under this alternative. The Reduced Retail Alternative also meets most of the basic objectives of the Project given that it would result in the adoption of a consistent framework for the City's review and approval of new uses in the area of the Project, and would promote the development of locally and regionally accessible uses. VIII. GROWTH-INDUCING EFFECTS A project may be growth-inducing if it directly or indirectly fosters economic or• population growth or additional housing, removes obstacles to growth, taxes community service facilities, or encourages or facilitates other activities that cause significant environmental effects. (CEQA Guidelines § 1 5126[g].) Under CEQA, induced growth is considered a significant impact only if it directly or indirectly affects the ability of agencies to provide needed public services, or if it can be demonstrated that the potential growth could significantly affect the environment in some other way. Chapter 6, Section A of the Draft SEIR provides an analysis of growth-inducing effects of the Project, as required by CEQA Guidelines section 15126.2(d). With the exception of the P development develo ment of a minor amount of senior housing,the Project would not directly induce substantial population growth. As discussed in the Draft SEIR, population growth that could be induced as a consequence of new employees working with the area of the Project moving to the City would not be substantial; therefore, the Project is not likely to induce substantial indirect population growth. In addition,the area of the Project is currently served by water, sanitary sewer, stormwater, and other roadway and utility infrastructure, and any needed upgrades to these systems would not be likely to be of a scale that would induce substantial population growth. Improvements to local roadways and I-680 would be undertaken to accommodate the Project, and also would not be likely to stimulate substantial further growth in the area. Accordingly,the City Council finds that the Project's effects related to indirect population growth would be minor, and that the Project's benefits substantially outweigh the five significant and unavoidable transportation and traffic impacts as demonstrated below in the Statement of Overriding Considerations. IX. STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS Pursuant to Public Resources Code §21081 and CEQA Guidelines §15093, the City Council has balanced the economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the Project against the Project's five significant and unavoidable transportation and traffic impacts and has adopted all feasible mitigation measures. The City Council has also examined three potentially feasible alternatives to the proposed Zone, none of which are feasible in that they would not accomplish the City's basic objectives for the proposed Zone to a satisfactory extent(the substantial benefits articulated by the City in its objectives would not likely be provided under 54