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B. ALAMEDA COUNTY, CONGESTION MANAGEMENT AGENCY LETTER OF MARCH 22, 2006 B 1 Comment: This letter states that the DEI R project is exempt from the CMP's Land Use Analysis Program because it would not (based on information provided by the City to the CMA subsequent to the CMA comment letter) generate 100 or more PM peak hour trips over existing or baseline conditions, Response: This letter resolves the issues raised in the CMA's previous communications, B 2 Comment: The Land Use Analysis Program of the Congestion Management Program requires that "jurisdictions must address all potential impacts of the project on the Metropoli- tan Transportation System (MTS)," If an alternative model other than the Alameda Countywide Model is used for traffic impact analysis, it should: a, be conservative in terms of traffic volumes on the specified MTS roadways and b, the approach should be demonstrated as conservative and documented in the EI R, With respect to the traffic analysis for this project, Pleasanton's traffic model is reported to generate less traffic volume than the countywide model, which is not normally the case; typically the countrywide model tends to generate relatively less traffic volume than a city model, which is more detailed, The reasons why the countywide model is thought to be generating a higher trip volume than the city model should be discussed in the EIR, Response: The PM peak period impacts of the Bernal Phase II Specific Plan are considered to be lower than those incorporated into the Congestion Management Plan because the land use currently proposed differs from the land use designations in the 1996 Plea- santon General Plan, This change in land use designations is the outcome of subsequent planning actions taken by Pleasanton, Since 1996, Pleasanton has: . Divided the Bernal Property into two Specific plan areas: o phase I, a 19B-acre private development area, and o Phase II" a 31B-acre public use area; . Completed and certified an EI R (Bernal Property Phase I Specific Plan EI R) on the 19B-acre private use area; and . Published the current DEIR (Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan EIR) on the 31B- acre public use area, For the Bernal Property as a whole, the levels of residential and office/commercial development provided for under the Phase I Specific Plan are substantially less than those assumed in the 1996 General Plan: Residential, As noted in the General Plan EI R, Table, 2, the residential component of the Bernal Property site was assumed to be 2,257 units, The full residential 16