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Grand Avenue Widening Project Environmental Impact Report Executive Summary <br />Improve the segment of Grand Avenue between Seventeenth Street on the north and First <br />Street on the south to the City of Santa Ana General Plan Circulation Element and the <br />Orange County Master Plan of Arterial Highways designations of Major Arterial for this <br />road segment. <br />2. Improve the flow of traffic on this segment of Grand Avenue in the City of Santa Ana, <br />consistent with existing and forecasted traffic demand. <br />3. Provide bike lanes on this segment of Grand Avenue, consistent with the adopted City of <br />Santa Ana Bikeway Master Plan and the Orange County Master Plan of Bikeways. <br />4. Provide a cross section on the project segment of Grand Avenue compatible with the <br />existing cross sections on Grand Avenue north and south of the project segment. <br />Provide a cross section on the project segment of Grand Avenue compatible with recent <br />improvements at local intersections with Grand Avenue and the recent improvements to I-5. <br />As described in Section 1.2 and as described in detail in Table 1-1, Alternative 2 meets all the <br />defined project objectives. Alternative I meets objectives numbers 1, 2, 4 and 5 but does not meet <br />objective number 3. The No Project Alternative meets only objectives 4 and 5. <br />ES.7 PREFERRED ALTERNATIVE <br />The City has identified Alternative 2 as the preferred alternative for the proposed widening of Grand <br />Avenue. Alternative 2 meets all five of the defined project objectives and the majority of the <br />significant adverse environmental impacts under this Alternative can be mitigated to below a level <br />of significance. <br />F: WROJ-ENMGrand eirlNew Text - GrandExecutive Summary-new.doc Page ES -18 <br />