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EIR No. 2007-02; ZOA No. 2008-04; DA No. 2004-04; CUP No. 2008-34; VTTM No. 2008-04; and SPR No. 2008-05 January 12, 2009 Page 5 The City has evaluated the comments on environmental issues received from persons or agencies. In accordance with CEQA, each of the public agencies and interested parties that comment on the draft EIR will be provided a response to their comments. Within the DEIR is the Mitigation Monitoring Program for the project. In addition, the Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations have been included (Exhibit 4). The DEIR has determined that implementation of the project would result in unavoidable adverse impacts to aesthetics, air quality and traffic. All other potential impacts associated with the project were determined to be less than significant or were provided with mitigation to reduce impacts to a level considered less than significant. Aesthetic impacts are a result of shade patterns cast by the height of the proposed tower and parking structure. Shade would be cast on Town and Country Manor Retirement Center east of the project and on residential uses west, northeast, south and southeast of the project site as well as park uses which are not shaded by existing site features. These areas would receive one-half hour more of shade at various times of the year. Air quality impacts are a result of construction and during the operation of the completed .project. During construction .and the application of architectural coatings, thresholds established by the Southern California Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) will be exceeded and result in a significant adverse short-term regional air quality impact. Additionally, after project completion and operation begins, emissions of reactive organic gases (ROG) produced by vehicle and stationary sources will result in exceedance of operational thresholds established by SCAQMD. These ROG emissions are based on the volume of project related trips attributable to the proposed project. As a result, the ROG emissions cannot be mitigated to below a level of significance and would constitute an unavoidable significant adverse impact related to air quality. Implementation of the proposed tower would result in temporary cumulative traffic impacts. The 2010 traffic conditions between La Veta Avenue and Town and Country Road cannot be mitigated to below a level of significance without amending the Master Plan of Arterial Highway (MPAH) road classification from a Major Arterial to a Principal Arterial. This road reclassification would provide one additional lane in each direction. In the year 2030, this road segment will operate at an 75A-7