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Environmental Impact Report Alternatives Assessment for the proposed Lodi, California, Love's Travel Stops Project Memorandum January 28,2013 The proposed Project includes a fuel dispensing area with 24 fueling positions. Of these 24 fueling positions, 16 pumps would dispense gasoline and the remaining 8 would dispense diesel fuel. The proposed Project also includes a 7,700-square-foot convenience store, with an attached 3,000-square-foot fast-food restaurant and a 1,200-square-foot storage building, totaling 11,900 building square feet.2 Parking in the proposed Project includes 68 passenger vehicle stalls and 94 truck stalls that could accommodate overnight parking for heavy-duty trucks. The proposed structures and automobile fueling area are proposed to be located on the south portion of the site, with truck fueling in the middle portion of the site and truck parking along the northern and eastern perimeter of the site. Given the site configuration of the proposed Project, only a small portion of the proposed Project will contain vertical development (convenience store, fast-food restaurant, fueling structure, etc.). In short, the proposed Project is a particularly low- Intensity use with about 70 percent of the site (about 8 acres) planned to accommodate truck and passenger car parking. Project Feasibility Love's specifically chose the location of the proposed Project to provide needed corridor coverage to their trucking customer base. The proposed Project location Is strategic in filling a gap between their Santa Nella, CA and Corning, CA travel stop locations. Further,the success of the proposed Project is enhanced by their ability to serve the entire Interstate 5 (I-5) corridor. The proposed Project comports with Love's business model, which is to develop a travel stop that combines a fuel dispensing area, convenience store, and fast-food restaurant if the project is located outside of their home base geographic area.3 That is, Love's does not operate stand- alone restaurants or convenience stores with or without restaurants outside of their home base geographic area. There are two factors underlying this approach. First, high General and Administrative (G&A) costs associated with the management oversight of projects outside of their home base geographic area require the profit margins of all three uses combined (fuel dispensing area, convenience store, and fast-food restaurant) to achieve economic viability. Second, a project that excludes or reduces the amount of parking or fuel dispensing pumps would limit Love's ability to effectively use the Project in their market efforts to their trucking customer base. Based on Love's experience in developing similar truck stops, a large portion of the proposed Project is being developed to accommodate trucking customers. As such, the site has been sized and configured to allow trucks to safely maneuver around the Project and to park in order to adhere to"hours of service" regulations. Love's explored alternative configurations to use less acreage and determined there were no other feasible site configurations that would maintain required operational and safety considerations. 2 Ibid. 3 Love's home base geographic area Includes the states of: Oklahoma; Texas; Kansas; and Colorado. Economic&Planning Systems,Inc. 2 p:\Id1000[\Ill]Sllpv6Trvb5(vp\�S Cw/es\]yI51 ml Ol-SBd3.lx EXHIBIT I