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75E
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2/5/2019
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EXHIBIT A <br />measures as the proposed Project. Therefore, although the Reduced Project Alternative would be lower in <br />height, scale, and mass, generate fewer greenhouse gas and air quality emissions, require fewer services, <br />result in less traffic trips, and create a large open space area on the eastern portion of the Project site, it <br />would not reduce the need for mitigation or the level of impact significance compared to the Project. <br />Furthermore, the Reduced Project Alternative would result in a reduced beneficial effect. Providing fewer <br />multi -family housing on the Project site would result in fewer opportunities to improve the City's 3.2 <br />percent vacancy rate, fewer residents traveling to local employment opportunities, a reduced improvement <br />to the jobs -housing balance and is not as reflective of the General Plan Major City Entry and Main Street <br />Concourse node designations as the Project. <br />Ability to Achieve Project Objectives: The Reduced Project Alternative would meet the Project <br />objectives, but not to the same extent as the Project. The site would be redeveloped for new high-quality <br />housing near existing employment centers, commercial areas, freeways, and transit; however, fewer <br />residential units would be provided and a reduced improvement to the jobs -housing balance would occur. <br />Additionally, fewer residents would be accommodated by the safe, high-quality, modern residential <br />community with open space and various recreation amenities on the Project site. Overall, this alternative <br />would meet the objectives of the Project, but not to the same extent as the Project. (DEIR, pp. 6-17 through <br />6-18.) <br />Finding: The Reduced Project Alternative would reduce impacts in comparison to the proposed Project; <br />however, the alternative would not reduce significant unavoidable aesthetic impacts to a less than <br />significant level and would continue to require the same mitigation measures that would be implemented <br />for the Project. In addition, the Reduced Project Alternative result in a reduced beneficial effect by <br />providing fewer units to meet the City's housing need and jobs -housing balance. Further, this alternative <br />would not meet the Project objectives to the same extent as the proposed Project. Therefore, the City <br />hereby rejects the Reduced Project Alternative. (DEIR, p. 6-18.) <br />Alternative 3: Build Out of the Existing Zoning Alternative <br />Description: Under this alternative described in further detail in the DEIR (DEIR, pp. 6-18 through 6- <br />24), the Project site would be redeveloped for new professional office uses as allowed by the City's Zoning <br />Code Sections 41-312 through 41-323. The Project site has a Zoning designation of P (Professional), <br />which allows buildings up to 3 -stories or 35 -feet in height. The building setbacks required in the P zone <br />include a 15 -foot setback from the front and side property lines, and a 50 -foot rear setback when the site <br />backs to residential areas. The maximum office building structure that could be developed under the <br />existing zoning code requirements would be 3 -stories high and 387,465 square feet (floor area ratio of <br />1.5), which would require 1,161 parking spaces (per the P zone requirement of 3 spaces per 1,000 square <br />feet). The office building would be surrounded by drought tolerant ornamental landscaping. <br />Under this alternative, the existing onsite development would be demolished, removed, and replaced to <br />provide a new building structure that would be developed pursuant to current building requirements, such <br />as energy efficient power systems, drought tolerant landscaping, storm water filtration, and other Low <br />hnpact Development (LID) requirements. This alternative would be consistent with the existing land use <br />designation, which is PAO (Professional and Administrative Office) and P zoning designation. (DEIR, p. <br />6-18.) <br />Environmental Effects: The Build Out of the Existing Zoning Alternative would result in a lower <br />building height than the Project, and a 10 -foot larger setback from the eastern boundary of the site; but <br />Resolution No. <br />Certification of the Magnolia at the Park EIR <br />75E-103 <br />Page 65 of 71 <br />
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