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09/09/2013 Summary of Findings Regarding Alternatives. For all of the foregoing reasons, the City Council has determined to approve the Project instead of one of the alternatives to the Project. The City Council's Findings Regarding Suggestions for Modifying the Project, Variations on the Alternatives, and a Suggested Off-Site Alternative Various modifications to the Project and variations on the alternatives were proposed either in comments on the Draft EIR or in letters submitted to the City after the Final EIR was completed. These proposed variations include prohibiting vehicle traffic on street extensions through the Project and wrapping all parking structures in housing. The City Council finds that these proposals would not reduce any significant impacts of the Project and do not represent additional alternatives to the Project because they would alter components of the Project, but are not alternatives to the Project as a whole. In addition, as explained in the Responses to Comments section of the Final EIR, one of the Project's three street extensions (Hurlingame) may be implemented as a pedestrian paseo under the Precise Plan, and Alternative 18.5 analyzes the inclusion of housing on the development site. Another comment suggested an off-site alternative to the Project, which would place the uses described in the EIR on "the unused vacant land owned by Stanford near the University and Medical Center." As explained in Final EIR Response to Comment L 9.01, the suggested site is subject to General Plan, Development Agreement and Community Plan constraints that do not allow the types of intensity of uses that have been proposed for the Project site. In addition, development of urban uses on this undeveloped land could result in greater impacts to biological resources, creek habitat and water quality, potential archaeological resources, and aesthetic resources than redevelopment of the Project site for the same uses. For these reasons, the alternative location suggested by the commenter is not considered to be a potentially feasible alternative capable of substantially reducing the impacts of the Project. Findings Regarding Adequacy of Range of Alternatives. The City Council finds that the range of alternatives evaluated in the EIR reflects a reasonable attempt to identify and evaluate various types of alternatives that would potentially be capable of reducing the Project's environmental effects, while accomplishing most but not all of the project objectives. The City Council finds that the alternatives analysis is sufficient to inform the City Council and the public regarding the tradeoffs between the degree to which alternatives to the Project could reduce environmental impacts and the corresponding degree to which the alternatives would hinder the City's ability to achieve the project objectives. ATTY/RES0.2901/STANFORD EIR CERTIFICATION RESO.#15294 REV:09-10-13 VR MUFF#100 Page 52 of 55