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09/09/2013 an appropriate location on the main Stanford campus is not available, feasible, or essential. Plan the campus with sufficient flexibility to allow office, research/development, and medical clinic uses by Stanford and/or other users. Redevelop the project development site to conserve natural resources through sustainable land use components and building features, including those affecting transportation, energy, water, and air quality. Redevelop the site so that it enhances the quality and value of the adjacent residential neighborhood. Redevelop the site in a manner which promotes and enhances a healthy and diverse economy in Redwood City. Transform the project site's existing campus design to allow development intensity in a manner which implements the City's New General Plan vision for land use, urban form and density, economic development, and circulation. Create a pattern of smaller City blocks integrated into the neighborhood-scale street grid. Provide a high-quality campus with substantial usable open space. Ensure that the forgoing objectives are achieved through preparation and approval of a comprehensive land use plan addressing such issues as development standards, design guidelines, and capital improvement plans and policies. Discussion and Findings Relating to the Altematives Evaluated in the Draft EIR Under CEQA, a "No-Project Alternative" compares the impacts of proceeding with a proposed project with the impacts of not proceeding with the proposed project. A No-Project Alternative describes the environmental conditions in existence at the time the Notice of Preparation was published, along with a discussion of what would be reasonably expected to occur at the site in the foreseeable future, based on current plans and consistent with available infrastructure and community services. Here, the EIR considers in detail two No-Project Alternatives, one of which assumes only that existing buildings on the Project site would be fully occupied and the other of which assumes that the Project site would be built out to its currently permitted 0.7 FAR. The EIR also considered in detail three Action Alternatives, and explained why an alternate project location was not considered in detail. No Project Full Occupancy of Existing Buildings Alternative (Alternative 18.1) ("Existing Buildings Alternative"). Under the Existing Buildings Alternative, existing buildings on the development site would be fully occupied with office and R&D uses. None of the adverse or beneficial environmental impacts of the Project would occur. ATTY/RES0.2901/STANFORD EIR CERTIFICATION RESO.#15294 REV:09-10-13 VR MUFF#100 Page 46 of 55