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The City of San Leandro also finds that as to such significant effects identified above: Specific economic, legal, social, technological or other considerations, make infeasible project alternatives identified in the EIR. Basis for Findings: III. FEASIBILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF AL TERNA TIVES The CEQA Guidelines require the description and comparative analysis of a range of alternatives, including the No Project Alternative, to the proposed Strategy that could feasibly attain the objectives of the proposed strategy. The characteristics, impacts, and feasibility of each of the four alternatives to the proposed project that were evaluated in detail in the Final EIR are discussed below. The City of San Leandro considered four alternatives to the proposed project in the Final EIR. Alternatives to the proposed project evaluated in the Final EIR included: (1) No Project Alternative; (2) Mixed Use Land Use Concept 2 Alternative-Residential Emphasis with High Intensity Downtown Retail; (3) Mixed Use Land Use Concept 3 Mixed Office Residential with Modest Downtown Retail; and (4) a CMA Land Use Model for CMP Analysis Alternative. The project alternatives that were analyzed in the TOD Strategy EIR are as follows: A. Alternatives to the Proposed Project Alternative 1: No Project Alternative with the Existing General Plan Description of Alternative 1: Under this alternative, which is required under CEQA, the proposed project would not be constructed and the site would be redeveloped per the current General Plan and zoning code. The No Project Alternative for the purposes ofthis EIR assumes that development within the TOD Strategy Area, as well as throughout the remainder of the City would occur as currently allowed by the City's existing General Plan and zoning code. The extent of potential development that could occur within this regulatory framework is described below. There are currently 12 General Plan land use designations within the TOD Strategy Area, as shown in Table 4.7-1 of the Land Use Chapter. There are also 12 zoning designations overlapping with the Strategy Area, which are also specified in Chapter 4.7 and shown in Figure 4.7-2. As shown in Table 3-2 of the Project Description, it is estimated that buildout under the existing General Plan and zoning code through 2015 would include 590 dwelling units, 781,200 square feet of office, and 195,300 square feet of retail. This level of growth would result in 1,527 and 2,790 new people residing and working in the TOD Strategy Area, respectively. In order to effectively evaluate these growth projections in relation to the TOD Strategy, it was necessary to compare them to the growth projections for the TOD Strategy buildout year (2030). An alternative approach would have been to calculate reduced (30 percent) projections for 30