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' Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report Page IV.B-25 Forward Inc. Landfill 2018 Expansion Project ' Cumulative Impacts to Austin Road Mainline Segment The Norcal Logistics Center project is expected to add about 1,000 daily trips (5% of its total estimated site generated trips)to Austin Road according to its traffic study estimates.This makes a total of about 4,700 daily vehicle trips on Austin Road in the short-term scenario, well ' below the recommended design capacities for either collector streets or minor arterial streets. There are no available 2035 traffic forecasts for Austin Road. Because much of the land along the study segment near the Project site is agricultural land,no changes in land use are expected that would significantly change the current traffic patterns. Assuming an annual 1% growth rate for the next 15 years,the daily volumes would be about 5,500 vehicles per day and would be well within the LOS"C"standard as shown in the following San Joaquin County's General Plan Road Classifications and corresponding capacities. Therefore this impact would be less than significant. Impact B.9. Potential Cumulative Impacts at Main Access Driveway. (Revises 2013 EIR Impact B.9). ' As shown in Table IV.B-12,under cumulative conditions, the landfill driveway with the project would continue to operate at a satisfactory level of service. For these reasons, the Expansion ' Project would not affect queuing on Austin Road before the landfill is opened in the morning. This impact would be less than significant and no mitigation would be required. ' Impact B.10. Potential Cumulative Impacts on Bicycles. (Revises 2013 EIR Impact B.10) As described in Setting, Bicycles, above, French Camp Road is a proposed Class III bikeway. The 2013 EIR found that the previously proposed project would add a maximum of 19 truck trips in each direction in the AM Peak Hour to French Camp Road. The truck volume would be lower in other hours. This volume of trucks would not be a considerable contribution to ' cumulative impacts on bicycle usage and facilities;thus,the project's cumulative impact would be less than significant. The 2013 EIR also found that additional Forward Landfill truck traffic outside the study area may overlap with bikeways or bicycle usage,but that the added trips would disperse to many roadways outside the study area, and it is not expected that the landfill-related vehicles on any individual roadway would create a significant negative impact. Therefore,the previously proposed project would not make a considerable contribution to cumulative impacts on bicycle usage and facilities under both cumulative scenarios (near-term and year 2035). The 2018 update of the transportation study found that the analysis of cumulative impacts on bicycles under EPAP conditions the previously proposed project, above, also would apply to the 2018 Expansion Project.For these reasons,under Near-Term Cumulative Conditions and Year 2035 Cumulative Conditions,the impacts of the 2018 Expansion Project would be less than ' significant and no mitigation would be required. 1