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of CEQA topics. Subsequent action on the project limited the areas of the site proposed for private development, reserving substantial acreage for community and public uses. Environmental Review of a Community College Campus ~ preparation of an expanded negative declaration, environmental impact report, and mitigation monitoring plan for the proposed permanent home of Vista College in downtown Berkeley. M&A worked with the Peralta Community College District - helping the District undertake its first-ever CEQA review - on a project proposed to consolidate college operations located in three rented downtown locations into a single- building campus. Key issues were parking and visual impacts. The evaluation of alternatives to the proposed project considered strategies to address these key issues, including an alternative site at which surface parking could be provided and a smaller building on the selected site. Environmental Review of a Change in the Urban Limit Line } environmental impact report on a change in the ULL proposed by Contra Costa County in 2000, a modification of the County General Plan that had been adopted by voters in 1990. The focus of this analysis was on the potential for the proposed changes to constrict the supply of land potentially available for development to such a degree that it would be insufficient to accommodate residential growth projected through the General Plan time horizon, leading to displacement of housing development and, concomitantly, higher housing prices, longer commutes, and other adverse environmental consequences. EIR Consulting on Commercial Redevelopment Plan > provision of conceptual assistance to the City of Emeryville in organizing the environmental review of a major redevelopment on the south Bayfi:ont. As this project moved into site design and preparation of a full EIR, M&A was retained to guide the formulation of alternatives and to organize a multi-city, multi- mode transportation analysis. M&A also prepared the sections of the EIR addressing employment, population, and housing; public services; hazardous and toxic substances; and soils and geology. In all these subject areas, one of M&A's principal contributions was to prepare narrative analyses that are clear and understandable to the lay reader. This project has been constructed. Environmental Assessment and Negative Decla~ation for BART Parking Garage } preparation of CEQA documentation for a negative declaration on a 1,200- space parking garage proposed by BART for its El Cerrito del Norte Station. Technical analyses of traffic and circulation, visual impacts, air quality and noise were coordinated by Mundie & Associates and were compiled to form a technical addendum to the CEQA document. Critical issues included revising station-area circulation, impacts on l~eeway on-ramp traffic volumes and visual effects of the 45-foot high structure on nearby hillside residences. Parking Structures at Two BART Stations > full EIRs on projects proposed by BART (as part of its Access Improvement Program) consisting of parking structures, improvements to bus transfer facilities, and circulation alterations to accommodate increased BART use by both bus and auto patrons. At both stations, visual impacts were an issue. In addition, the Concord work focused on local traffic and circulation impacts while the Union City work considered the planning context of the proposal in light of the municipality's planning and redevelopment efforts both east and west of the BART station. Revision of an EIR >~ For the City of Emeryville, Mundie & Associates was engaged to prepare the transportation section of the EIR on the Sybase project. The ADEIR, prepared by another Be~nal F~oper~ Proposal Pha~e il Specid~c Plan ELR Pa~[e~/~ ~J~ Jgllz~d. ie & ~soc~iates