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Potentially Potentially Significant unless Less than Significant Mitigation Significant No Impact Incorporated Impact Impact XIII. PUBLIC SERVICES a) Would the project result in substantial adverse physical impacts associated with the provision of new or physically altered governmental facilities, need for new or physically altered governmental facilities, the construction of which could cause significant environmental impacts, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios, response times or other performance objectives for any of the public services: Fire protection? 0 0 0 [gI Police protection? 0 0 0 [gI Schools? 0 0 0 [gI Parks? 0 0 0 [gI Other public facilities? 0 0 0 [gI DISCUSSION: The project site receives fIre protection services from the city of San Leandro Fire Department, which was consolidated with the Alameda County Fire Department in July 1995. The County Department maintains offices at City Hall in the East 14th Street Civic Center complex and staffs fIve fire stations in San Leandro. The Department is responsible for fire suppression and prevention, emergency medical response, hazardous materials and disaster response, rescue, and community education and training. Response time to calls is typically under fIve minutes and there are few fire fighting constraints. Construction and operation of the new bridge and trail connection could result in more hikers and bicyclists on the project site, which could potentially result in more service calls to the fire department. However, until the Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline park is developed and additional trail parking is provided, the East Bay Regional District staff does not expect use ofthe bridge and the area to increase significantly (Wiese, 2005). Police protection for the site is provided by the San Leandro Police Department. The Department's headquarters are located at 901 East 14th Street in the Civic Center complex. As noted above, operation of the new bridge and trail could result in more service calls to the police department, but a signifIcant increase in park and trail users is not expected until the Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline park is developed. The project would not result in any additional need for schools in the area, since no new housing, residents, or school age children would be generated by the project. The proposed bridge and trail would affect the existing undeveloped Oyster Bay Regional Shoreline park. The bridge and trail would allow hikers and bicyclists to access the area. However, use of the Y4204IS.00693.doc - 4/5/07 -36-