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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Executive Summary <br />■ Air Quality The No Project Alternative would not require any construction and would not result <br />in any short term construction air quality impacts. <br />■ Noise: The No Project Alternative would not require any construction and would not result in <br />any short term construction noise. impacts. <br />Alternative 1 is environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative and/or Alternative 2, as <br />noted, related to the following parameters: <br />■ Air Quality: The improved traffic operating conditions under Alternative 1 would result in slight <br />long term air quality benefits compared to the No Project Alternative, similar to the benefits that <br />would occur under Alternative 2. <br />■ Land Use: Alternative 1 is environmentally superior to Alternative 2 because it would result in <br />less property acquisition than Alternative 2. <br />■ Population and Housing: Alternative 1 is environmentally superior to Alternative 2 because it <br />would result in fewer displacements than Alternative 2. <br />■ Noise: Alternative 1 is environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative related to long <br />term traffic noise because Alternative 1 includes mitigation of traffic related noise which would <br />not be mitigated under the No Project Alternative. <br />■ Traffic: Alternative 1 is environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative because it <br />improves the project segment of Grand Avenue consistent with the General Plan and Master <br />Plan of Arterial Highways (MPAH) designation for this road segment and with existing and <br />forecasted demand. <br />■ Aesthetics: Alternative 1 is environmental superior.to the No Project Alternative related to <br />aesthetics because it includes implementation of landscaped medians on the project segment <br />of Grand Avenue. <br />Alternative 2 is environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative and Alternative 1, as noted, <br />related to the following parameters: <br />■ Land Use: Alternative 2 is the only alternative that is consistent with the City's Bikeway Master <br />Plan of the Circulation Element. <br />■ Air Quality The improved traffic operating conditions under Alternative 2 would result in slight <br />long term air quality benefits compared to the No Project Alternative, similar to the benefits that <br />would occur under Alternative 1. <br />■ Aesthetics: Alternative 2 is environmentally superior to the No Project Alternative related to <br />aesthetics because it includes implementation of landscaped medians on the project segment <br />of Grand Avenue, similar to the benefits that would occur under Alternative 1. <br />F: IPROJ-ENVIGrand eirWew Text - GrandMecutive Summary-new.doc Page ES -16 <br />