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-5— ® (EIR 4.1-14.) As an attorney, I come to the opposite conclusion. If the decision to use the word "structure" in two ways — once unmodified and once modified by "residential or commercial"—implies anything, it implies the adoption of different meanings between the two uses. This is, in fact, a basic canon of statutory interpretation taught in law school, called the "meaningful variation" principle. This principle can be summarized as: when the drafters of a statute use a word or phrase differently in different places, they are assumed to have meant different things.' (In any event, one only resorts to these sorts of interpretive principles if a term is ambiguous in the first place. In light of the Municipal Code's explicit definition of "structure," that is not the case here.) Traffic I devoted my own testimony at the Workshop to this subject, and remain of the opinion that if one puts aside arguments concerning PP and the Ventana side letter, the traffic analysis pushes heavily toward routing through Lund Ranch Road instead of Sycamore. There were numerous witnesses who offered anecdotal accounts regarding traffic along Junipero. I think it is safe to say that residents of all the involved neighborhoods think we presently have too much traffic. So to divorce out one's own subjective impressions, I write to draw attention back to the only neutral, comprehensive evidence we have regarding traffic along the various routes: the City's own analysis as reported in the EIR. • Those figures report quite plainly that the busiest street in Ventana is Junipero, with ® an existing average weekday traffic figure of 2,880 trips. You can see this graphically in Figure 4.6-2. In the Environmentally Superior Scenario (No. 1), Junipero is predicted to go to 3,140 trips. • The busiest street in Sycamore, on the other hand, has an existing average weekday traffic figure of 3,440 trips. So, even with the increase in traffic under Scenario 1, it is beyond debate that Junipero still will have fewer daily trips than Sycamore has now. Under Scenario 6, Sycamore will increase to 4,130 trips • per day. I thought also that the Traffic Engineer's comments at the Workshop were particularly helpful to understanding the various arguments raised: • The Engineer testified that Hanifen, at 32 ft. wide, was not built to support significant two-way traffic. Contrary to its design, Hanifen would be called upon to bear a large (700%) increase two-way traffic in Scenario 6. This is likewise true of Sunset Creek Lane. By contrast, all streets involved in Scenario 1 are at least 37 ft. wide, some 40 ft. 5 Indeed, the case law applying the meaningful variation principle makes clear that it applies with particular force when the comparison of phrase usage is taking place within the same statute adopted at the same time authored by the same people (as is the case here), as opposed to when the comparison is taking place, for ® example, between one usage in one statute passed at one time and another related statute passed some time later.