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~-zs Potentially Significant Unless Mitigation Inco oration and regional parks or other recreational facilities such that substantial physical deterioration of the facility would occur or be accelerated. b) Does the project include recreational facilities or require the construction or expansion of recreational facilities that might have an adverse physical effect on the environment? The project does not include recreational facilities or require the construction or expansion of recreational facilities. As a result, it is not foreseen that the project would have an adverse physical effect on the environment. x a) Cause an increase in traffic that is substantial in relation to the existing traffic load and capacity of the street system (i.e., result in a substantial increase in either the number of vehicle trips, the volume to capacity ratio on roads, or congestion at intersections)? Woodside Road, a major arterial street also designated as State Highway 84, provides local access to the site. The posted speed limit on Woodside Road is 35 miles per hour (mph). There is an existing sidewalk on the north and south sides of Woodside Road, and portions of the subject site abut the sidewalk on the north side of Woodside Road. Hess Road provides one (1) access point to the subject site. Hess Road is a two (2)-lane collector street that connects Poplar Avenue to Woodside Road. The speed limit is 25 miles per hour on Hess Road. Lucerne Avenue provides one (1) access point to the subject site. Lucerne Avenue is a two (2)-lane collector street that extends from Hess Road about a half block to the West and terminates into a residential property. A majority of Lucerne Avenue remains unimproved (the roadway is paved, but no curb or gutter system has been constructed). To describe the operation of a local roadway network, transportation engineers and planners commonly use a grading system called Level of Service (LOS). The LOS grading system qualitatively characterizes traffic conditions associated with varying levels of traffic. These levels range from LOS A, which indicates free-flow traffic conditions with little or no delay experienced by motorists, to LOS F, which describes congested conditions where traffic flows exceed design capacity, resulting in long queues and delays. The proposed re-zoning of the project site will not result in the generation of any new trips; therefore the existing Level of Service at the intersections surrounding the project site will not be impacted. Furthermore, the distribution and assignment of existing traffic will not be impacted as a result of the proposed re-zoning of the project site. As a result, the project would not cause an increase in traffic and no impacts would occur to the existing traffic load and capacity of the street system. x b) Exceed, either individually or cumulatively, a level of service standard established by the county congestion management agency for designated roads or highways? Since the project will not generate any additional traffic as a result of the re- zoning the proposed project will not exceed, either individually or cumulatively, levels of service standards established by the San Mateo County Con estion Mana ement and Trans ortation Plannin Unit and Ci fCoun x 16