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8. B. - Page 4 than normal in 2011. This is permitted under the CEQA regulations and applicable court decisions. b. Appellant claims that the EIR does not adequately analyze potential traffic impacts at the adjacent key signalized intersections of EI Camino at Center and Dumbarton streets because it does not use current traffic counts or quantitative level of service (LOS) calculations. City's response: With respect to the claim regarding the use of current traffic counts, see the preceding response. With respect to the use of quantitative LOS calculations, the EIR contains a LOS analysis performed by qualified traffic engineers, which determined that the Project would not result in unacceptable levels of service at the EI Camino Real/Dumbarton Avenue intersection, or at any other intersections affected by the Project. This analysis is substantial evidence to support the City's determination that intersection impacts will be less than significant, in compliance with CEQA requirements. c. Appellant claims that the EIR does not adequately analyze or mitigate potential, temporary traffic and parking impacts from construction activity. City's response: The EIR adequately addresses construction-related traffic and parking impacts. As explained there, EI Camino Real is a major regional roadway and designated truck route that possesses adequate capacity to accommodate Project operation and construction traffic. The EIR determined that construction traffic would be less than Project traffic, the impacts of which were determined to be less than significant. The Project would also be required to comply with standard City regulations regarding construction truck traffic as provided in Chapter 24 of the Municipal Code. In addition, the temporary construction parking is addressed in the EIR and the Project's parking plan meets the standards of the City's Parking Zoning Ordinance Article 30.4 B. d. Analyze impacts and mitigation for traffic queuing at adjacent key intersection (EI Camino at Center and Dumbarton streets) left turn pockets. City's response: The EIR contains a queuing analysis, prepared by qualified traffic engineers, who concluded that traffic queuing in the turn pocket would result in a less than significant impact. This analysis satisfies CEQA requirements and provides substantial evidence to support the City's determination that impacts relating to queuing at key intersections will be less than significant. 2. Air Quality: The October 26, 2011 and December 13, 2011 Adams Broadwell letters are both accompanied by letters from Clark & Associates, air quality toxicologists, which contain several comments on the air quality analysis in the EIR. Based on these comments, Appellant makes the following claims: