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This letter provides comments on the proposed build alternatives, as well as five principle impact areas: Traffic/Circulation, Parking, Land Use, Environmental Justice, Noise, and other impacts. Amore detailed letter with additional staff comments on the DEIS/EIR will be forthcoming. Traffic/Circulation Impacts Overall, the City has concerns that the DEIS/EIR has underestimated potential traffic and circulation impacts within the City of San Leandro, as follows: Impacts to Side Streets. Impacts to those side streets, especially in the North Area are potentially significant. Only qualitative discussions of the impacts, such as cross street through-movement restrictions and delays on cross streets have been provided in the DEIS/EIR. Impacts to Intersections. Although the DEIS/EIR states on Page 3-39 under "City of San Leandro" that no intersections analyzed operate worse than LOS D (i.e., LOS E and F are unacceptable), the City believes that traffic congestion at the East 14`h Street/Dutton Avenue intersection is underestimated. Especially long vehicular queues on northbound East 14`h Street, south of Dutton Avenue, and on westbound Dutton Avenue east of East 14th Street constantly occur in the afternoon peak hours. If either Alternatives 1 or 3, which feature dedicated bus lanes on the East 14th North Area are implemented, the traffic queues and congestion on the mixed-flow single northbound lane would be exacerbated. It should also be recognized that although some intersections may perform better than LOS E, the general reduction in the performance of so many intersections makes for a poorer quality of life, an impact that is not readily measurable. Impacts to Street Improvement Proiects. Altematives 1 and 3 call for dedicated bus lanes that would be in conflict with two on-going major street improvement projects along East 14th Street, as follows: East 14`h North Area Improvement Project: Based on the East 14`h Street North Area Study, the City Council in May 2006 approved a modified street improvement plan that calls for two northbound lanes and one southbound lane on East 14th Street between Davis Street and Georgia Way, coupled with small median islands in several crosswalks to ensure safe pedestrian crossing.