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<br />warehousing use; research, film, experimental or testing laboratories; and <br />parking lots and garages. Thes~ IIf,eS are permitted under the current Light <br />Industrial General Plan land use d&signation for this site. It is. anticipated that <br />this alternative would result in employment growth of just over 1,000 jobs. <br /> <br />Finding: This alternative is infeasible and is therefore rejected because it <br />would not meet any of the Project's objectives outlined in the EIR. <br />Furthermore, this alternative would forgo the environmental benefits and the <br />community, recreational and public benefits listed in section 2c of the <br />Resolution. In addition, this alternative would provide fewer economic <br />benefits to the City than those listed in section 2c of the Resolution because it <br />would provide for one-third fewer jobs than the Project and would not <br />accommodate the same uses as the Project. <br /> <br />B. <br /> <br />INDUSTRIAL PARK ZONING DISTRICT ALTERNATIVE <br /> <br />Description: This alternative includes the maximum amount of mixed <br />uses permitted in the IP Zoning District (administrative, business, and <br />professional offices, research, experimental, or testing laboratories; precision <br />instrument and device manufacturing; as well as warehousing uses) and <br />conforms to the IP Zoning District's building height limits (3 stories or 50 feet, <br />whichever is greater) and floor-area-ratio requirements (40 percent). This <br />alternative would construct a total of as much as 309,186 square feet within <br />four buildings over a period of 10 years. <br /> <br />Finding: While this alternative would result in fewer overall environmental <br />impacts due to less development intensity on the site, this alternative is <br />infeasible and is therefore rejected for the same reasons listed for rejecting <br />the Reasonably Foreseeable Development Alternative above except that this <br />alternative would result in even fewer jobs than that alternative, or two-thirds <br />fewer than the Project. <br /> <br />C. <br /> <br />REDUCED HEIGHT ALTERNATIVE <br /> <br />Description: This alternative would contain the same square footage and <br />mix of uses as the Project, which proposes approximately 541,000 square <br />feet of R&D, manufacturing, administrative, office and warehousing uses, in <br />buildings that would conform to the established height limits of the IR <br />(Industrial-Restricted) Zoning District, which limit building heights to a <br />maximum of 75 feet. <br /> <br />13 <br />U:\ProjectslAbbott Labs\Planning Commission - EIR and Entitiements\Statement of Overriding ConsiderationslAbbott - Statement of <br />Overriding Considertions.doc <br />