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Chapter 4 Statement of Overriding Considerations 4.2.2 First and Cabrillo Towers Alternatives (Project-Level) Air Quality Impact 4.2-6 Construction activities associated with the proposed project would exceed South Coast Air Quality Management District Standards for VOC and NOx, and would result in a projected air quality violation. Impact 4.2-7 Construction of the proposed project could result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of criteria pollutants for which the proposed project region is in nonattainment under an applicable federal ox state ambient air quality standazd. Impact 4.2-8 Construction activities associated with the proposed project would generate emissions that would result in exceedance of localized significance thresholds established by the SCAQMD, and could therefore expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations. Cumulatively, the proposed project would also have significant and unavoidable impacts with regards to the above-mentioned impacts. ^ Short-Term Impacts Of the three significant unavoidable impacts directly attributable to the proposed project and associated cumulative impacts, as identified above, all would occur during construction activities and would be considered short-term. ^ Long Term Impacts Of the three significant unavoidable impacts dtrecdy attributable to the proposed project and associated cumulative impacts, as identified above, none of the aforementioned impacts axe considered long-term. 4.3 FINDINGS The Ciry has evaluated all feasible mitigation measures and project revisions with respect to these impacts (see Chapter 2, CEQA Findings). The City has also examined a reasonable range of altematives to the proposed project (see Chapter 3, Findings Regarding Project Alternatives). Based on this examination, the City has determined that, from a programmatic perspective, the No Project/Reasonably Foreseeable Development Alternative (Alternative 1) and, with respect to the First and Cabrillo Towers development, the Reduced Residential Component (Alternative 3) axe considered to be the environmentally superior alternatives fox their respective analyses, whether program- ox project-level. While each of the progxam- and project-level alternatives listed above would potentially result in less significant environmental impacts than the proposed project, the Ciry finds these alternatives infeasible and less desirable than the proposed project and has rejected these alternatives from further consideration because they would not achieve the environmental, economic, social, and other considerations outlined in Chapter 3 (Findings Regarding Project Alternatives). Metro East Mixed Use Overlay Zone EIR Findings of Fact/Statement of Overriding Considerations 43 75B-79