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<br />Meadowlark Development - Austin Property - Environmental Checklist <br /> <br />Issues <br /> <br />Potentially <br />Significant <br />Impact <br /> <br />Less Than <br />Significant <br />With Mitigation <br />Incorporated <br /> <br />Less Than <br />Significant <br />Impact <br /> <br />No <br />Impact <br /> <br />Recreation <br />Would the project: <br /> <br />a) Would the project increase the use of existing neigh- <br />borhood and regional parks or other recreational facili- <br />tics such that substantial physical deterioration of the <br />facility would occur or be accelcrated? <br /> <br />b) Does the project include rccreational facilities or re- <br />quire the construction or expansion of recreational fa- <br />cilities, which might have an advcrse physical effect <br />on the environment? <br /> <br />D <br /> <br />D <br /> <br />lliJ <br /> <br />D <br /> <br />[J <br /> <br />D <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />D <br /> <br />Discussion <br /> <br />a-b) The proposed devclopment will provide 22 acres of opcn space land to the City that will be used <br />to augment the Alviso Adobe park site. Staff, therefore, believes that the proposed development <br />will not accelerate thc deterioration of existing public park facilities near the subject site. Thcre- <br />forc, this would be a less-than-signijicant-impact <br /> <br />15. TRANSPORTATION AND TRAFFIC <br /> <br />Environmental Setting <br /> <br />The project's primary access roads include Foothill Road and Old Foothill Road. Foothill Road is a <br />two-lane, north/south arterial connecting Pleasanton to the Sunol area to the south and to the Stoneridge <br />Mall and the 1-580 freeway to the north, Old Foothill Road is a two-lane residential street without side- <br />walks providing access to the site and to the future Alviso Adobe Park. The project developer will con- <br />struct street improvements on Old Foothill Road as required by the City Engineer. At eight dwelling <br />units, generating a total of 80 trips during the 24-hour day and 8 trips during the a,m.lp,m. peak com- <br />mute hour, no traffic analysis was required for the proposal. <br /> <br />Standards of Significance <br /> <br />For purposes of this cnvironmental document, an impact is considered significant if the proposed project <br />would: <br /> <br />· Rcsult in reducing the Level of Service from "D" to "E" or worse, <br /> <br />PGP A-ll/PUD-58/PTR-7813 <br /> <br />Page 32 of 36 <br /> <br />July 19.2006 <br />