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Executive Sum identified as the environmentally superior alternative (see Section 1.6.5 for a summary of the Environmentally Superior Alternative or Section 5.5 for the full discussion.) 1.6.3 ALTERNATIVE 2 - INTENSIFIED INSTITUTI®NAL USES Alternative 2 would provide development of institutional uses on the site; however, the intensity of the proposed uses would exceed the 436,000 sf of Institutional uses assumed in the 2003 OCGP Program EIR for the site. This alternative assumes approximately 2,085,000 square feet of institutional uses would be developed. Uses would include government offices, emergency shelters, equipment storage areas, law enforcement facilities, and maintenance areas. This Alternative is more fully discussed in Section 5.4.3. Compared to the Project, this Alternative would result in an incremental reduction of impacts and would avoid significant Population and Housing impacts; however, significant and unavoidable impacts of the proposed Project related to Air Quality, GHG Emissions, Land Use and Planning (interim), and Transportation/Traffic would not be avoided. Though this Alternative would result in incrementally less GHG Emissions, the GHG Emissions impacts for Alternative 2 would remain significant and unavoidable and greater than the Project's due to the lower GHG Emissions efficiency in the absence of mixed-use, high density land uses. Of the 11 Project objectives, this alternative is able to fully meet 3 of the Project objectives and partially meet 5 objectives. This Alternative would enhance the degraded physical condition of the Project site by providing new development (Objective 2). It would also use sustainable principals through measures that promote linkage to transportation and transit networks (i.e., development in proximity to the Irvine Station) (Objective 3); and it would promote re- purposing and adaptive reuse of existing materials (Objective 9). There are four objectives that would be partially met: (1) utilize this County real estate asset to generate new sources of revenue (Objective 1); (2) promote brown field development opportunities as a means of decreasing the region's dependency on the automobile by locating the mixed-use development on a previously developed site (Objective 5); (3) it would provide employment -generating uses near amenities (Objective 7); (4) revitalize the underutilized Project site through the implementation of an innovative development, near transit and compatible uses that will meet the regional demand (Objective 8); and (5) Promote use of alternative modes of travel such as biking trails and walkways that link residential, parks, retail, and commercial areas (Objective 10). This Alternative would not meet the remaining three objectives. Though this alternative would eliminate one of the significant impacts identified for the proposed Project and meet or partially meet the majority of the Project Objectives, it did not meet the Project Objectives as effectively as either the Proposed Project or Alternative 3. Therefore, this Alternative was not identified as the environmentally superior alternative. 1-6 EL TORO, 100 -ACRE PARCEL DEVELOPMENT PLAN PROGRAM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT REPORT