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AC Transit East Bay Bus Rapid Transit DEIS/EIR Comments 6/29/2007 3 While significant impacts to the intersection ofE. 14th Street and 150th Avenue, as well as E. 14th Street and Hesperian are identified as significant in the DEIS/EIR, no mitigation is proposed, yet the impact is identified as "less than significant" on Page 6-8. Impacts on Traffic Loading. The City is concerned that bus stops that keep buses in the travel lane for loading has significant impacts on traffic that may not have been included in the traffic / circulation analysis. Impacts to Pedestrians. While more pedestrian safety features would be provided with Alternatives 1 and 3, the City expects that there will be longer walking distances at several locations where crosswalks would be closed, and that fewer gaps in traffic would be available for pedestrians to cross a busy single mixed-flow travel lane. Thus, continued pedestrian enjoyment and safety would become more challenging, especially to those who have mobility limitations. Parking Impacts The City has concerns that the DEIS/EIR has underestimated potential parking impacts within the City of San Leandro, as follows: . By comparing parking impacts between the Alternatives, San Leandro realizes a significant parking impact by losing from 14 to 17 parking spaces (Alternatives 2 and 4) up to 175 to 200 parking spaces (Alternatives 1 and 3). Although the parking reduction is relatively small compared to other cities, those on-street parking spaces are vital to San Leandro merchants. The lack of parking mitigation being proposed for the loss of up to 31 percent of the City's parking supply within the study area, is considered a significant impact by the City of San Leandro. . Removal of on-street parking in the south area of East 14th Street will hinder the City's redevelopment efforts to attract in-fill development. Developers seeking parking reductions rely on some form of on-street parking to mitigate the lower supply of parking provided within their projects. . The proposed mitigation for North Area of East 14th Street at Dutton Avenue has previously been rejected by residents and local businesses who thought the loss of parking was more detrimental to the community than the current travel delays.