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Task 4.9 Public Services and Utilities. The project site is already occupied and therefore imposes a small demand on the local providers of fire, police, EMS, water, wastewater, storm drains, solid waste and streets and roadways. The net change in floor area and project site population will be estimated in Task 4.7, Housing/Population, and used to derive increased demand for these services and infrastructure. The number of retail customers, new residents, employees, and suppliers the proposed project will bring to the City will also be estimated. The direct, cumulative and qualitative changes in the project site population may create new demand for other services including library, recreation, parks, senior and youth programs, schools, street maintenance and repairs, redevelopment/revitalization and general city services. ElP will contact the various City departments and service providers to ensure that the demand estimates are reasonable and reflect per unit rate demand factors acceptable to the service providers. To the extent that the increased demand may warrant an expansion or increased capacity in public facilities and utilities, there may be a CEQA impact that will be reported in the ElR. Changes in demand, by themselves, are not significant under CEQA. Task 5. Project Alternatives and Required CEQA Considerations Purpose: To complete drafts of the remaining sections of the ErR for City staff review. City Involvement: Facilitate discussions and select appropriate alternatives for evaluation Deliverable: Draft text sections for review and comment. Discussion: This task involves preparation of other required sections exammmg particular aspects of the project's effects and the identification and comparison of project alternatives. Task 5.1 Other CEQA Considerations. This task involves documenting unavoidable adverse impacts, growth-inducing effects, cumulative effects, and effects found not to be significant. Each of these, except for the cumulative analysis, is relatively straightforward. Significant and unavoidable impacts and effects found not to be significant will be summarized based on the assessments performed during Task 4. Growth-inducing effects will be based on the ABAG regional input-output model that uses regional multipliers to estimate indirect and induced growth. The cumulative impacts will assess the effects of the proposed project in combination with other projects in the project vicinity. We will meet with City staff to determine whether a plan-based or project-based cumulative assessment makes sense for the ElR. The vicinity will vary depending on the particular issue. For traffic impacts, the vicinity will include major routes to and from the site; for visual impacts, the relevant geographic area is expected to be the area within a block or two of the project site. Task 5.2 Alternatives. A preliminary set of project alternatives should be discussed and framed at the outset of this process because of the concerns about how site re-development should occur. Based on the review of existing conditions and the input received from the City's Consulting Services Agreement between City of San Leandro and EIP Associates Page 35 of 43