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ADMINISTRATIVE REVIEW DRAFT and extent of services that are required in the City. An evaluation of infrastructure remains an important step toward ensuring the adequacy of the City's housing sites. Roads. As a built out city in an urban setting, San Leandro experiences periodic traffic congestion on its major streets and highways. The City has adopted a peak hour level of service (LOS) standard of "D" for its signalized intersections. This standard ensures that future capital improvements will be directed to areas where congestion is currently a problem. It also ensures that new development contributes to the cost of improving roads and intersections if traffic studies show the potential for future congestion. Traffic studies are typically required for projects that would generate more than 100 peak hour trips, including most large multi -family housing or mixed use projects. If a traffic study finds that a project could cause an intersection to deteriorate below LOS D, then mitigation is required. This usually consists of improvements to adjacent roads and intersections, but may also include changes to the number of units in the project, or to site design and layout. The 2001 Environmental Impact Report for the General Plan indicated that three intersections were operating at unacceptable levels of service (e.g., LOS E or F) during the evening peak hour. It further found that at least 13 additional intersections could deteriorate to LOS E or F as a result of future residential, commercial, and industrial development in the City and a projected increase in general background traffic. In all but one instance, the EIR concluded that LOS E/F could be avoided by adding turning lanes at the impacted intersections, adjusting traffic signals, and making other improvements along key road segments. For the most part, the cost of these improvements will be passed along to developers through the City's DFSI (development fee for street improvements). At its current level of $900 per unit, the DFSI is not a serious constraint to development. However, fee increases could be necessary to cover the cost of the improvements identified in the traffic analysis, making this a greater constraint in the future. Depending on the scale and location of individual projects, contributions above and beyond the DFSI could be required to address traffic impacts. This could impact project costs. Traffic is of particular concern along the northern segment of East 14'h Street, which now operates at LOS E during the evening peak hour, and along Davis Street near the Downtown BART Station, where LOS E is projected. Approved projects in Oakland and San Leandro will add trips to these road segments and heighten the need for road improvements. During the 1990s, a lane reduction project on East 14'h Street north of Downtown narrowed the street from four to two lanes. While this created a more pedestrian -oriented street environment (and even spurred several new housing proposals), it raised neighborhood concerns about congestion in this area. The current proposal by AC Transit to develop a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line on this street segment could further impact traffic patterns and potentially displace vehicles onto nearby residential streets. Monitoring of traffic conditions in this area will be essential in the future. Improvements to the Dutton/East 14t' intersection have been recommended to address the most immediate concerns. Water. Although water supply will always be a development constraint in California because of the State's susceptibility to drought, there are no immediate or unique service constraints in San Leandro. The City's water delivery system is in good condition and the East Bay Municipal Utilities District HOUSING ELEMENT 5-19 SAN LEANDRO GENERA P AN