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O84 Rationale The development and installation of a consistent theme of landscaping and street improvements, within the center median and within the parkways along both sides of the street, will provide a more unified and attractive image for this corridor than presently exists. Use of xeriscape landscape techniques and' materials will reduce the costs of maintaining this landscaping, a fiscal benefit to the City and its taxpayers. Assemblage of adjoining remnant parcels into larger developable sites will facilitate the redevelopment of these vacant or underutilized sites with high quality, aesthetically integrated uses, which can meet or exceed the City's development standards and design objectives for the City's Bristol Street Corridor Redevelopment Plan. Sale of remnant parcels to adjoining land owners will allow those property owners to expand their existing uses and will return that land to private use, freeing the City from maintenance responsibility and restoring the land to the assessable property tax rolls. Landscaping of these remnant parcels will increase the amount of landscaping in the proposed parkways along both sides of the new street right- of-way; a significant visual benefit which will also provide increased opportunity for pedestrian amenities such as walkways and seating areas. Such added landscaping would also provide a deeper and more pleasant buffer to adjoining residential properties along the right-of-way. Seismic Hazards Significant Effects The project area is located in a seismically sensitive region, with potentially significant earthquake-induced ground shaking along the street, and potentially significant subsidence within the Santiago Creek. A major earthquake event could, therefore, result in the collapse of numerous unstable ground surface-level structures and could loosen the structural support for the Santiago Creek bridge. Finding The following measures have been incorporated into the project which, if properly implemented, would avoid or substantially lessen the potential for damage due to a major earthquake event, to a level of insignificance. As part of the engineering and preparation of design plans, structural and soils engineers will be retained to determine the structural stability of the Santiago Creek Bridge, with regard to a potential subsidence event. These assessments will include recommendations, if needed, to provide adequate structural support for the bridge.