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significant environmental effect would occur, and there is no substantial evidence in light of the whole record before the Redevelopment Agency Board that the Project, as revised, may have a significant environmental effect. Facts in Support of Finding The City has adopted Mitigation Measures 6-1 through 6-3 of the Franklin Street Area Plan EIR and New Mitigation Measures 4 and 5, identified on pages 3-21 through 3-22 of the Initial Study, to reduce potential hazards and hazardous materials impacts to a less-than-significant level: The effects of these mitigation measures will be to require site assessment and remediation of potential hazardous material sites prior to allowing construction to commence. Implementation of these measures will minimize any adverse hazards and hazardous material impacts that could occur with site redevelopment. Because adverse hazards and hazardous material impacts will be avoided with implementation of these mitigation measures, no significant impacts will occur with site redevelopment. NOISE (Section XI) SIGNIFICANT EFFECT Impact The Redevelopment EIR concluded that development within the Second Amendment area could adversely affect the noise environment along major access roads. The City considered the merits of the Redevelopment Plan in light of the significant noise impacts during the approval process for the Plan. The Franklin Street Area Plan EIR evaluated noise level increases associated with Project traffic at eight roadways within the Project area. The greatest increase (5 dB CNEL) was anticipated to occur on El Camino Real. The EIR concluded that this would not be considered a significant impact. The proposed Project will not include any changes in the previously evaluated redevelopment activities that will cause any new significant noise effects or substantial increases in the severity of previously identified noise effects. The construction activities identified in the Redevelopment EIR will not substantially differ with the proposed Project, and thus, no incremental increase in construction noise will occur. For operational emissions, the proposed Project will include fewer residential units (506 vs. 527) than identified in the Franklin Street Area Plan, therefore, vehicle traffic and associated noise levels would be less than anticipated in the Franklin Street Area Plan EIR. For this reason, the incremental noise impacts of the proposed Project are not considered significant. Findine The Redevelopment Agency Board finds that changes or alterations have been incorporated into the Project which mitigate or avoid the significant noise impacts to a point where clearly no significant environmental effect would occur, and there is no substantial evidence in light of the whole record before the Redevelopment Agency Board that the Project, as revised, may have a significant environmental effect. Facts in Support of Finding FRANKLIN STREET PROJECT -11- Findings RD99-21