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MONITORING VERIFICATION IDENTIFIED IMPACT RELATED MITIGATION MEASURE Implementation Monitoring and Timing Signature Date Enti Verification Entit Re uirements this intersection. This effect would represent approaches. These improvements would but not to aless-than- reduce this In?pact service reaches LOS E (average delay of greater than a signltcant impact. , significant level (i.e., would not fully mitigate 55 seconds). either the AM or PM peak hour irripacts). Therefore, this impact would be significant and unavoidable. or Mitigation 9-20(b). Add a second eastbound left-turn lane on Brewster Avenue. Implementation of this rneasure would Improve PM peak hour operations to LOS D, resulting in aless-than-~~ignificant impact. or Because: (a) Mitigation 9-20(a) would result in pedestrians on each side of Brewster receiving a walk signal fo cross Veterans Boulevard at separate times during the signal cycle, instead of the overlapping walk signal phases that now occur, thereby increasing delay for pedestrians and negatively impacting pedesUian convenience and safety; (b) Mitigation 8-20(b) would require the elimination of curbside-parking spaces and would precude future pedestrian enhancements such as corner bulb-outs that would reduce pedestrian exf~osure to traffic; and (c) these effects would be inconsistent with City policies giving priority to the Downtown pedestrian environment; the City may choose to avoid the two mitigation options identified above in the interest of protecting the pedestrian environment. This choice would result in a significant unavoidable impact under current CEG}A and Clty criteria for "Intersection Im acts." Impact 9-21: Project Contribution to Mitigation 9~-21. Right-of-way constraints due to the adjacent US 101 on- and off- infrastructure improvements City; C/CAC During project-specific environmental review Cumulative Impacts at the Veterans BoulevardtWoodside Road Intersection. in ramps preclude any feasible mitigation. considered not the PM peak hour, project traffic would Therefore, tl?e project contribution to this cumulative impact represents a significant feasible by City; however, increase average delay by five (5) seconds or which already would more at this intersection unavoidable impact. Woodside Road , be operating at LOS F. This effect would is part of CMP roadway represent a si nificanf im act r V~ Page 78 U;4My DacumentslDowntown Precise PIan;CC staff. repoRslCC 3. f 2.doc13.12.07 Exhit>its~A(tachment A mit.monitoring checklist 655.doe~ D