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<br />and geology, public health and safety, noise, cultural resources, and air quality would be similar
<br />to those associated with the Initial Project and-with the exception of visual impacts, where
<br />Alternative 4 would have greater effects than the Project-similar to those of the Project. With
<br />respect to population, housing and employment, Alternative 4 would, if feasible, have housing
<br />benefits similar to those of both the Initial Project and the Project and, compared to the Initial
<br />Project, a similar but increased positive effect on the existing citywide imbalance between jobs
<br />and employed residents, reducing in-commuting. However, the reduction in marina fill under
<br />Alternative 4 also reduces the land area available for residential structures, making it very
<br />difficult to achieve fundamental project objectives, including meeting housing demand and
<br />providing affordable housing, and is, therefore, not be a feasible alternative to the Project.
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<br />E. Reduced Commercial. with Reduced Buildina Heiahts. Reduced Marina Fill.
<br />and Added Park (Alternative 5)
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<br />Description: Alternative 5 assumes development of the Project site along lines
<br />similar to those described for Alternative 4 but with the addition of a neighborhood park.
<br />Accordingly, Alternative 5 would include development of 1,930 condominium residential units for
<br />sale, 162,000 square feet of commercial floor area, including 150,000 square feet of office
<br />space and 12,000 square feet of convenience retail, and a three-acre neighborhood park.
<br />Alternative 5 would include approximately fifteen multi-story residential structures (two more
<br />than the Initial Project) and a reduction in maximum residential structure height from 260 feet to
<br />190 feet. It would involve more marina fill than the Project but less than the Initial Project
<br />(approximately 11 acres for Alternative 4 as opposed to approximately 11.54 acres for the Initial
<br />Project and 10 acres for the Project).
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<br />Findings: As compared to the Initial Project, Alternative 5-like the Project--
<br />would result in reduced, but still significant, impacts in the areas of visual factors, transportation
<br />and circulation, biological resources, and hydrology and water quality. Environmental impacts in
<br />the areas of land use, infrastructure and public services, soils and geology, public health and
<br />safety, noise, cultural resources, and air quality would be similar to those associated with the
<br />Initial Project and the Project. With respect to population, housing and employment, Alternative
<br />5, if feasible, would have housing benefits similar to those of both the Initial Project and the
<br />Project and, compared to the Initial Project, a similar but increased positive effect on the existing
<br />citywide imbalance between jobs and employed residents, reducing in-commuting. Alternative 5
<br />would also reduce the maximum height of residential structures to 190 feet. However, this
<br />height reduction, as well as incorporation of the three-acre neighborhood park, significantly
<br />reduces the land area available for construction of residential structures, making it very difficult
<br />to achieve fundamental project objectives, including meeting housing demand and providing
<br />affordable housing, and is, therefore, not be a feasible alternative to the Project.
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<br />F. Reduced Commercial. with Reduced Buildina Heiahts. Reduced Marina Fill.
<br />Added Hotel. Improved Desian. Increased Retail and Incorporation of
<br />Bavfront Study Transit and Transportation Demand Manaaement (TOM)
<br />Measures (Alternative 6)
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<br />Description: Alternative 6 assumes that the Project site would be developed as
<br />a mixed use residential-commercial complex similar to the Initial Project, with the same
<br />residential unit total, but with a redesign that would include modifications in building heights and
<br />building placement to substantially reduce visual impacts, an increase in the amount of
<br />commercial floor area devoted to local-serving convenience retail to "internalize" more vehicular
<br />trips and thereby reduce traffic impacts, the addition of a 200-room hotel, and the incorporation
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