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7A Page 72 Costro's Final ErR, page 3-3 of the Master Responses (answering trip generation responses): "Several comments expressed concern about how the gasoline sales volume relates to trip generation and the associated impacts of increased traffic congestion on the local roadway system... (factors using Transportation Engineer's Trip Generation Manual) estimates 168.56 daily vehicle trips and 13.86 p.m. peak hour trips per vehicle fueling position for "average" gas stations. . . (equaling) 2,695 daily trips and 220 p.m peak hour trips for the fueling station." The City's estimates were increased to 24.3 weekday p.m. peak hour tripsper'lUeling station equaling 390 peak hour vehicle trips for the fueling station". The City concludes this is 75% moretban the manual's furmula's outcome. Coincidently this 390 peak PM hour trip number equals the estimate in the DElR on page l 4.4-10 provided by Costco for the consultants. This number was reached with Costeo using the 148,663 sq ft warehouse and fuel station. It is the number that they stick by and the City concludes is correct even changing to the 160,392 sq ft warehouse and J increasing the estimated monthly gallons pumped from Costco's first figure of 540,000 gallons per month (6.5 million per year) to the new estimate of 750,000 gallons per ~~~~~~. 4 Costco'sDEIR, page 3-4 Operational Characteristics: "While an increase in sales volumes is expected with the proposed warehouse expansion, no substantial increase in customers is expected. The larger/improved warehouse would allow for more efficient merchandise . delivery systems to the sales floor, wider interior aisles, and better interior layouts which improve customer awareness of the range and availability of goods, and in turn, increased sales." Why would you go to the expense of building a new, bigger warehouse and not expect to attract new customers? Saying the existing customers would be fueling up dwing their shopping trip allows vehicle trips to be classified as internal, not new. The methodology of determining primary, internal and diverted linked tripsis questioned in Costco's FEIR by the Department of Transportation (page3-17). Numbers can dazzle and confuse. Costro's DEIR. page 9-8 states the Bayside Gardens EIR (Alternative Site) assumed - 1 development of a "big box" retaU stare 'Would generate 5,608 daily trips. ~ Stanford Draft Supplemental EIRpage 12-26 estimates 3,688 net new daily trips for their project. Page 12-27 determines (using zip codes of current patients) that 40010 of their trips would come from US 10 1 south of their site, 5% from the East Bay using the Dumbarton Bridge, 10% from Middlefield Road, 15% would use EI Camino south of the site, 22% from the north and the remaining trips from east ofthe nay Area. 5