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8.0 Exhi�� 94 � Impact 9-16: Cumulative Impact on Broadway/Walnut Street Intersection. Under Cumulative With Project Conditions during the PM peak hour, this intersection would continue to operate at an unacceptable LOS F. The additional project traffic would cause the critical delay to increase by more than five (5) seconds. a) Potential Impact. The impact identified above is described and discussed on pages 9-58 to 9-64 of the DEIR. b) Findings. Based on the FEIR and the entire record before the City, the City Council finds that: (i) Mitigation Mea.sures. This impact could be mitigated to a less than significant level with the adoption of Mitigation Measure 9- I 6(page 9-71 of the DEIR), which would require signalization of the intersection. However, the City's New General Plan adopted on October 11, 2010 includes PED policies intended to promote alternative modes of transportation in the DPP area, emphasizing pedestrian and bicycle travel and a reduction in the number of vehicle miles traveled within and by residents of the City. Mitigation Measure 9- 16 would conflict with these policies by impeding pedestrian mobility. In addition, as explained above, this potentially significant cumulative impact could be considered less than significant under the City's new LOS policies. Assuming, however, that this identified traffic increase represents a potentially significant cumulative impact, because implementing Mitigation Measure 9-16 would conflict with the City's PED policies, this measure is deemed infeasible and this potentially significant cumulative impact is deemed to be significant and unavoidable. (ii) Remaining Impacts. Because there are no feasible mitigation measures available to mitigate the significant impact identified above, this impact is considered significant and unavoidable. (iii) Overriding Considerations. The environmental, social, economic and other benefits of the DPP ovenide the significant adverse impacts of the DPP relating to the cumulative traffic impacts described above, as set forih in the Statement of Overriding Considerations below. Impact 9-17: Cumulative Impact on Broadway/Chestnut Street Intersection. Under Cumulative With Project Conditions during the PM peak hour, this intersection would continue to operate at unacceptable LOS F. The additional project traffic would .cause the critical delay to increase by more than five (_5) seconds. a) Potential Impact. The impact identified above is described and discussed on pages 9-5� to 9-64 of the DEIR. b) Findings. Based on the FEIR and the entire record before the Cit_y, the City Council finds that: S:UtESOLUTIONSUteso. 2092 CFQA Findings for DPP Exhibit B.doc 34 012011