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AC Transit East Bay Bus Rapid Transit DEIS/EIR Comments 6/29/2007 4 Land Use Impacts The City has concerns about land use impacts within the study corridor through San Leandro. Major infrastructural improvements were implemented as a result of the MTC-funded and award-winning East 14th Street South Area Development Strategy, would be substantially affected by the installation of dedicated bus lanes from Blossom Way to the Bay Fair BART station. Additionally, there are six City of San Leandro official planning areas, as described in the San Leandro General Plan, including one not mentioned in the DEIS/EIR, the E. 14th Street Commercial Corridor, that are located along or intersected by the study corridor and that will therefore be impacted by construction of the BRT project. Merchants and business owners within the transit corridor will be adversely impacted during the construction phase of the project, as well as after project implementation. The DEIS/EIR does not identify any mitigation regarding potential impacts to business owners along this important commercial corridor. Additionally, impacts on Bancroft Avenue land uses due to diversion of vehicular traffic from E. 14th Street onto Bancroft Avenue have not been evaluated. Environmental Justice Impacts The DEIS/DEIR describes traffic disruption to local business "during construction" and that the "major adverse effects ofthe project are temporary." However, minority or low-income populations are clustered along the study corridor and will be adversely impacted, as described above, after project implementation, and not just during the construction phase of the project. Noise Impacts Noise impacts to land uses, where dedicated lanes would displace vehicular traffic to other streets parallel to the alignment have not been included in the noise analysis.