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improvement. (MM TR -13.2) Marina Mitigation of this cumulative traffic impact requires conversion Boulevard/ of the eastbound right -turn lane to a shared through -right lane. Teagarden Street The mitigation measure requires the project sponsors to contribute fair -share funds towards this improvement. (MM TR - 13.3) CMP -designated Mitigation of this traffic impact requires adding travel lanes to roadways roadway sections and improving traffic management system. The mitigation measure requires the project sponsors to contribute fair -share funds to the construction of additional travel lanes to each of the impacted roadway sections in the direction of travel impacted by the proposed project, and to contribute fair -share funds towards the overall improvement to the City's traffic management system including the installation of necessary equipment to implement a traffic adaptive signal control system along affected corridors. (MM TR -17.1) Alternatives acquired from Caltrans. Implementation of this mitigation measure would require the acquisition of new right-of-way on the east leg of the intersection, and the City cannot guarantee issuance of the Caltrans encroachment permit. This measure could be infeasible due to high cost and right-of-way constraints. The acquisition of right-of- way necessary to widen the CMP -designated roadways would likely result in the loss of businesses and residences. The EIR includes an analysis of four alternatives to the proposed project. The four alternatives analyzed in the DEIR include: 1) No Project/No Build Alternative; 2) No Project/Existing Zoning Alternative; 3) Reduced Project Alternative; and 4) Project with Additional Site Access from Merced Street. The No Project/No Build Alternative would avoid all potential impacts and would thus be the environmentally superior alternative. Where the environmentally superior alternative is a No Project Alternative, CEQA requires the identification of another environmentally superior alternative from among the other alternatives considered. The Reduced Project Alternative would result in a reduction in traffic as compared to the proposed project. This reduction in traffic would reduce air quality and climate change impacts, and would also reduce traffic impacts at study area intersections, to freeways and CMP roadways. Although these impacts would still remain significant and unavoidable under the Reduced Project Alternative, they would be less severe. Thus the Reduced Project Alternative would be considered the environmentally superior alternative. Key Issues Raised in Comments on the Draft EIR City staff received comments on the Draft EIR from numerous public agencies including the California Department of Transportation; the California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics; the Alameda County Transit (AC Transit) Agency; the Alameda County Congestion Management Agency (ACCMA); and the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD). Additionally, a number of private companies and individuals provided comments on the Draft EIR including Applied Fusion, Inc.; Bayfair Center; Reynolds & Brown; Rutan and Planning Commission Staff Report April 22, 2010 Kaiser Permanente San Leandro Medical Center and Mixed Use Retail Development Project Page 13 of 28