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Environmental Impact Report Alternatives Assessment for the proposed Lodi, Calffbmia,Love's Trevel Stops Project Memorandum January 28,2013 Alternative 1: No Project Alternative Consistent with California Environmental Quallty Act (CEQA) guidelines, the DEIR includes a No Project alternative. Under this alternative, the Project would not proceed. In the short term, the Project site would remain vacant. In the long term, however, the DEIR anticipates the Project site would be developed with any land use permitted under the current zoning for the site (C-FS, Commercial-Freeway Services). Any other land uses would require a General Plan amendment or rezoning and are not considered reasonable, given the adjacent commercial land use designations. Alternative 1 Feasibility Assessment The No Project alternative does not meet any of the stated Project objectives, which are based on the construction and operation of a truck stop to serve existing travelers and truck traffic on SR 12 and 1-5. Alternative 2: Reduced Project Size The Reduced Project Size alternative is defined as development of a truck stop that is half the size of the proposed Project. Specifically, the Reduced Project Size alternative proposes 12 fuel dispensing pumps: 8 for passenger cars and 4 for trucks. In addition, this alternative proposes a convenience store that would be reduced to 3,850 square feet, a fast-food restaurant that would be reduced to 1,500 square feet, and a storage building that would be reduced to 600 square feet. Alternative 2 Feasibility Assessment The Reduced Project Size alternative conflicts with the Project objectives of developing a property of sufficient size to accommodate a truck and auto fuel dispensing area, emergency tire repair and replacement services, convenience store, and fast-food restaurant to create a regional traffic stop; providing a facility of sufficient size to capture overflow overnight truck parking; and providing a travel stop facility of sufficient size to capture overflow overnight truck parking. This alternative would use approximately half of the Project site, leaving the remaining acreage (approximately 5.8 acres) to be developed with additional conforming land uses (i.e., commercial-freeway services) that typically are high-intensity uses (e.g., hotels, gas stations, fast-food restaurants). Any future commercial development on the remaining half of the site likely will result in environmental impacts (e.g., traffic, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions) that are equal to or greater than the proposed Project, given the proposed Project's low-intensity usage of a majority of the site. As estimated in Omni-Means'trip generation analysis, traffic impacts under the Reduced Project Size alternative have the potential to be equal to the proposed Project (in the event another travel stop is developed on the remaining land) or greater than the proposed Project (in the event retail uses are developed on the remaining land), resulting in the same or significantly deteriorated level of service (LOS) conditions at evaluated intersections, respectively, relative to the LOS conditions of the proposed Project. Reducing the number of fuel dispensing pumps and the size of the convenience store and fast- food restaurant will have a small effect on the project footprint, which is primarily comprised of truck and passenger car parking. Economic&Planning Systems,Inc. 4 v:uaaoomunss:corcnwsmp�rss cw.d•wvsr m,mos-u.ee< EXHIBIT 1