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6.1 E Page 16 PROPOSE'.Il VV<)RK PR06RAM, SCItEDULE AIVD BUUG£7' FOR THE; PIiESERVF. A7 R£llWOOD Si{ORtiS M:�RCH 2O07 TASK D. ALTFRi�'ATIVES ANALYSIS The I_SA team will evaluate up to four alten�atives to the proposed project, one of which will be the CEQA-requireti No.Project alternative.The City's February 8,2007 Rcquest for Proposals identifies the following tl�u-ee al�ernatives to be included in the EIR: • Developing the site under existing General Plan land use designations.In this alternative, approx- imateiy 490 honles, 154,000 sq. ft. of conunercia] space, and a marina would be constructed. No elementary school would be included. • Developing the site with the e1_ementary school located o£f-site at the schooI site alternatives.The school alternatives identiFed in the NSSAC report for evaluation in CEQA are: o Marlin Park playing fieIds,a 4.0 acre site located at Redwood Sh.ores Parkway and Cringle Street. o Renovation of Sandpiper Elementary at Egret and Redwood Shores Parkway. o An unc�c:vetoped parcel near Belmont Slough and behind Indian Creek. These alternative school sites will be reviewed and summarized in the alternatives analysis. • Reduced intenszty alternative: If sig�li�cant unavoidable irnpacts ar�identifed,a reduced intensity alternat�ive will be evaluated. The alternatives wili be refined in consultation with the City, and considering the input from the scoping sessian and responses to the NOP.The alternatives should also be based in part on any signif cant impacts of the�roject that is identified during the Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures phase of the Draft EIR process. According to the CEQA Guidelines,altematives can be evaluated in less detail than the project, and therefore we wouId propose that the analysis in the EIR be undertaken at a qualitative level. The aiternative school sites wi11 be incIuded in the Cultural Resources evaluation except that no field investigation will be done for the existing Sandpiper School site or Marlin Park.Whether and to what level gumititative traffic analysis wou3d need to be performed for the alternatives is a question that could be discussed in consultation with Fehr and Peers.Based on the traffic analysis, LSA could also provide quantitative air quality and noise analyses for alternatives as an optional(not yet budgeted) task. Alternatives can be a key issue of community concern.Therefore, the discussion will be of suff cient detail to evaluate the benefits and drawbacks of each alternative,and to provide some qualitative con- clusions regarding the alternatives. Based on this analysis,the Environmentally Supenor Alternative witl be identified(as required by CEQA). TASK E. CUMULATIVE A1V'D GROWTH-INDUCING IMPACTS Section 15l 30 of the CEQA Guidelines requires that an F,IR evaluate potential environmental impacts that are individually limited bu.t cumulatively si�,nlificant.These impacts can resutt from the proposed project alone or togetl�er with otl�er projects.Th�analysis of cun�ulative effects will address the potential irnpacts associated witll the proposed}�roject in conjunction with other off-site,permitted, C:`d]xavi�NZmidScltin8s�pus��isi\LOCa3SnCvigcCfnnpwarylntcmaFii��+10LK13lRcriscdSaipc�mAAiWgaasCunuac�,��«u:hmaiidoc � 13