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• To create a high-quality travel stop commercial development near Interstate 5, a major transportation corridor. • To develop a property of sufficient size to accommodate a truck and auto fuel dispensing area, emergency fire repair and replacement services, convenience store, and fast-food restaurant to create a regional travel stop. • To provide a travel stop facility that maximizes its proximity to Interstate 5 for all buildings and tenants. • To construct a facility near a major freeway interchange in order to minimize traffic generation on local streets. • To construct a facility with access to adequate existing or anticipated utility infrastructure to support planned operations. • To provide a travel stop facility of sufficient size to capture overflow overnight truck parking. (DEIR, pp. 3-1 through 3-2.) B. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT ALTERNATIVES The Draft EIR identified and compared environmental effects of the four alternatives listed below with environmental impacts resulting from the Project. The following alternatives to the Project were evaluated: Alternative I:No Project Alternative 1. Description The County did not assume that "No Project" for this site meant"no development." Rather, the County was cognizant of the requirement from CEQA Guidelines section 15126.6, subdivision (e)(2), that a No Project Alternative must consider"what would reasonably be expected to occur in the foreseeable future if the project were not approved, based on current plans and consistent with available infrastructure and community services." (See also CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.6, subd. (e)(3)(C).) Consistent with this obligation, "where failure to proceed with the project will not result in preservation of existing environmental conditions, the analysis should identify the practical result of the project's non-approval and not create and analyze a set of artificial assumptions that would be required to preserve the existing physical environment." (Id, subd. (e)(3)(B)) Under the No Project alternative, development of the proposed truck stop would not occur. In the short term, it is anticipated that the proposed Project site would remain vacant. In the long term, it is anticipated that the site would be developed for other uses permitted under the San Joaquin County Zoning Ordinance. For the purposes of this analysis, potential alternative uses are assumed to be those that could be developed under the existing County zoning designation by Love's Travel Stops Project 14 Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations