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FINDINGS: The project area has no special characteristics that make it more susceptible to impact than other similarly situated land in San Leandro. All construction will comply with the San Leandro Municipal Code which requires all new structures to be engineered and designed to resist the forces imposed by an earthquake. With these requirements in place, the potential impact associated with geologic hazards has been lessened to below a level of significance. STATEMENT OF FACTS: All construction will comply with the San Leandro Municipal Code. City review and inspection during the plan check, building permit, and building stage will ensure that potential impacts associated with geologic hazards will be lessened to below a level of significance. b. AIR QUALITY EFFECT: This proposal would result in approximately 303 p.m. peak hour trips and replaces a use, the Blue Dolphin restaurant and banquet facilities, that generated approximately 360 p.m. peak hour trips. This represents 57 less p.m. peak hour trips than was generated by the Blue Dolphin when it was in full operation. FINDINGS: The proposed use replaces a previous business (the Blue Dolphin restaurant and banquet facilities) that generated 57 more p.m. peak hour trips. Therefore, there would be no increase in air emissions or deterioration of ambient air quality over what was experienced with the operation of the Blue Dolphin. STATEMENT OF FACTS: The proposal would replace the recently closed Blue Dolphin restaurant and banquet facilities. The restaurant and banquet facility was approximately 25,000 square feet and generated 360 p.m. peak hour trips. Quality restaurants have trip generation rates ranging from 3 to 16 trips per 1,000 square feet. The estimate for the Blue Dolphin assumes that a quality restaurant with banquet facilities tends toward the higher end of the range. The rate for the Blue Dolphin was increased by one standard deviation over the mean trip generation of 9.42 to account for the banquet facilities, for a rate of 14.42 per thousand. This could be considered a conservative assumption in that 33 percent of quality restaurants have a higher trip generation rate than used for this study. The reduced trip generation for this replacement use would not result in increased air emission or deterioration of ambient air quality over what was experienced with the operation of the Blue Dolphin. C. NOISE EFFECT: The proposal could result in increases of existing noise levels. FINDINGS: An evaluation of the noise impacts was performed by Environmental Science Associates, Inc. (ESA), a Bay Area firm providing environmental consulting services. ESA performed a series of noise measurements at the rear (western) property line of the residence at 13155