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Land Use Impacts The City has concerns about land use impacts within the study comdor through San Leandro. Major infrastructural improvements that were implemented as a result of the MTC-funded and award-winning 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 East 14`h 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 East 14`" Street onto Bancroft Avenue have not been evaluated. Environmental Justice Impacts The DEIS/EIR describes traffic disruption to local business "during construction" and that the "major adverse effects of the 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. The City of San Leandro does not support Alternatives 1 and 3 for the following primary reasons: • By comparing intersection LOS analyses in 2025 between Alternatives 2 and 4 (without dedicated bus lanes in San Leandro) and Alternatives 1 and 3 (with dedicated bus lanes in San Leandro), we note that the average vehicular delays would be increased almost three times at troubled intersections, although the LOS may remain the same. These substantial delay times ,and the reduction of intersection and roadway capacity are two of our top concerns for Alternatives 1 and 3.