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Hacienda TOD Standards and Design Guidelines Initial Study c) Result in a change in air traffic patterns, including either an X increase in traffic levels or a change in location that results in substantial safety risks? d) Substantially increase hazards due to a design feature (e.g., X sharp curves or dangerous intersections) or incompatible uses (e.g., farm equipment)? e) Result in inadequate emergency access? X t) Result in inadequate parking capacii v? X g) Conflict with adopted policies, plans, or programs supporting X alternative transportation (e.g., bus turnouts, bicycle racks)? Environmental Setting The information in this section is based on the attached Hacienda Transit Oriented Development Traffic Analysis, dated January 25, 2011. 1580, an eight -lane interstate freeway, is the northern boundary, Tassajara Creek to the Iron Horse Trail right -of -way to Arroyo Mocho is the eastern boundary, Arroyo Mocho is the southern boundary, and Hopyard Road is the western boundary of Hacienda. (See Figure 1, above.) The three sites are surrounded by Owens Drive (a four -lane road), Hacienda Drive (a four -lane road), Stoneridge Drive (a four -lane road) and Willow Road (a four -lane road). Gibraltar Drive (a two -lane road), is the boundary between the BRE site (Hacienda Site 7E) and the Roche Molecular Systems site (Hacienda Site 6). The Pleasanton /Dubin BART station is less than '/z mile due north of the three project sites. Significance Criteria The impact questions above corstitute the significance criteria for this environmental topic. In addition, the project would result in a sigrificant effect if it would: • Result in a substantial increase in traffic that would cause the corridor or intersection level of service to drop during the peak hour below acceptable level of service (LOS) D, or contributes traffic to intersections where the levels of service are already below D. Discussion of Checklist Items Less - than - Significant Impact with Mitigation. The Project Development replaces land uses on the project sites from office and light - industrial land -uses to residential and neighborhood- serving retail land uses. The project density at 55 apartment units to the acre is a moderate density residential development that produces fewer total trips than the previously approved Office Development. This lower trip generation rat: is further reduced due to the project development's inclusion of residential retail development teat facilitates a Transit Oriented Design. The inclusion of retail and proximity to local and regional transit encourage alternate travel modes that further reduces the trip generation. A traffic study was completed for the proposed project on January 21, 2011 and the analysis showed that eight intersections operated below the level of service D standard, but could be mitigated to LOS D or better. The traffic study found that the identified improvements would be required with or without the project construction and improvements are already included in either the General Plan or the Traffic Development Fee Program. While the project's vehicle trips add to the traffic volume on the roadways, Draft, Subject to Revision 30 2/11/201i