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One Broadway Plaza Findings and Facts in Support ofFindings <br />Environmental Impact Report <br />Therefore, the No Project Alternative is the Environmentally Superior Alternative although it would <br />not meet project objectives as discussed earlier in the analysis of project alternative. Section <br />15126.6(e)(2) of the CEQA Guidelines requires the identification of an additional feasible <br />environmentally superior alternative when the No Project Alternative is selected as the <br />Environmentally Superior Alternative. <br />TABLE 8.4-1 <br />COMPARISON OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF THE PROJECT <br />ALTERNATIVES FOR THE ONE BROADWAY PLAZA PROJECT <br />Environmental Effect <br />Proposed <br />Project <br />No Project <br />Alternative <br />Mid -Range <br />Project Alternative <br />Low -Range <br />Project Alternative <br />Land Use <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />Topography, Geology and Soils <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Hydrology and Water Quality <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Air Quality <br />3 <br />2 <br />3 <br />3 <br />Transportation <br />3 <br />3 <br />3 <br />3 <br />Hazards and Hazardous <br />Materials <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Noise <br />2 <br />1 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Population and Housing <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br />Public Services <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Utilities and Service Systems <br />3 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Aesthetics <br />3 <br />2 <br />2 <br />2 <br />Cultural Resources <br />3 <br />2 <br />3 <br />3 <br />Legend <br />1. No impact or below a level of significance without mitigation. <br />2. Impact that can be mitigated to below a level of significance. <br />3. Impact that cannot be mitigated to below a level of significance. <br />Source: P&D Consultants, Inc. (2002). <br />Many of the environmental impacts of the proposed project are directly related to the size or <br />intensity of the development and in general, projects with higher density will generally result in <br />more adverse impacts compared to alternatives with a lower density. However, for most of the <br />environmental categories, mitigation is anticipated to reduce the impacts of the Mid -Range Project <br />and Low -Range Project Alternatives to below a level of significance although the Mid -Range <br />Project and Low -Range Project Alternatives also do not meet all of the project objectives. The Mid - <br />Range Project and Low -Range Project Alternatives will result in similar impacts compared to the <br />proposed project after mitigation related to topography, geology and soils; hydrology and water <br />quality; hazards and hazardous materials; public services; utilities and service systems and <br />aesthetics. The Mid -Range Project and Low -Range Project Alternatives are anticipated to result in <br />greater impacts related to air quality, circulation, noise, population and housing and cultural <br />resources and aesthetics compared to the No Project Alternative. <br />7.0 STATEMENT OF OVERRIDING CONSIDERATIONS <br />The City has balanced the benefits of the One Broadway Plaza project against its unavoidable <br />adverse environmental impacts in determining that the specific economic, legal, social, <br />technological and/or other benefits outweigh the unavoidable significant adverse environmental <br />Ulvfregoso/wp5l/reports/One Broadway final findings Page 47 <br />June 28, 2004 <br />