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the alternatives). The City has adopted mitigation measures that reduce, to the extent feasible, the significant environmental effects of the Project. The City Council hereby adopts and makes the following Statement of Overriding Considerations regarding the significant and unavoidable impacts of the Project and the anticipated economic, legal, social, technological, and other benefits of the Project. a. Significant and Unavoidable Impacts Based on information contained in the record and in the SEIR, the City Council has determined that the Project would result in significant and unavoidable impacts to transportation and traffic due to the possibility of substantial increases in traffic to local study intersections under Existing plus Project conditions,Near-term plus Project conditions, and Far-term (Cumulative)plus Project conditions; and to freeway ramps at merge/diverge areas under Existing plus Project conditions and Far-term(Cumulative) plus Project conditions. Table 1 presented above illustrates the following: the impacts to transportation and traffic that would be significant and unavoidable, which physical locations (e.g., specific intersections or freeway on-ramps) would be affected,to what extent mitigation measures would reduce the level of impact,which impacts would remain significant and unavoidable after mitigation, and which impacts would be significant and unavoidable due to uncertainty regarding Caltrans' discretionary review of the improvements contained in the mitigation measure. As discussed previously, Mitigation Measure 4.d-ld is infeasible due to uncertainty regarding Caltrans' review and approval of the improvement described in that mitigation measure, and Mitigation Measures M-TR-1, 4.D-la, 4.D-lb, 4.D-lc, and 4.D-ld are all required to be completed in order to fully mitigate associated impacts (i.e., all of these measures must be implemented to reduce the impact to Stoneridge Drive [queue spillback] to less than significant). (Draft SEIR,pp. 4.B-18 to 4.B-21,4.B-21 to 4.B-23, 4.B-24 to 4.B-25; 4.D-20 to 4.D-38, 4.D-38 to 4.D-44, 4.D-44 to 4.D-50, 4.D-52 to 4.D-53, 4.D-55 to 4.D-56.) Finding The City Council has considered all potentially feasible mitigation measures to substantially lessen or avoid the Project's significant and unavoidable impacts. Where feasible, mitigation measures have been adopted as part of the Project. The imposition of these measures will reduce the identified impacts, but not in all cases to a less than significant level. The City Council finds that it is not feasible to fully mitigate these impacts. The City Council has also considered all potentially feasible alternatives to the Project. The City Council finds that there are no feasible alternatives that would reduce all of the significant and unavoidable impacts to a less than significant level. The impacts of the Project therefore remain significant and unavoidable. 55