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. i Environmental Impact Report Alternatives Assessment for the proposed Lodi, California, Love's Travel Stops Project Memorandum January 28, 2013 Further, 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 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. Alternative 3: Alternative Use—Combination Gasoline Station The Combination Gasoline Station alternative proposes a reduced, 12-pump fuel dispensing area in combination with a convenience market. The gasoline station would serve passenger cars and lighter trucks but would not serve heavy-duty trucks. Although the fuel dispensing area Is reduced from the proposed 24 fuel stations, this analysis presumes the convenience market would not be reduced in size relative to the 7,700-square-foot market in the proposed Project.6 This alternative omits the fast-food restaurant. Alternative 3 Feasibility Assessment The Combination Gasoline Station alternative conflicts with the Project objectives of constructing a Love's truck stop to serve existing travelers and truck traffic; developing a property of sufficient size to accommodate a truck and auto fuel dispensing area, emergency the 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. The Combination Gasoline Station alternative does not conform to Love's business model, which includes serving heavy-duty trucks and providing a fast-food restaurant. Specifically, Love's business model 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. There are two factors underlying this approach. First, high 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. This alternative would use less acreage than the proposed Project site, leaving the remaining acreage 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 remainder of the site likely will result in environmental impacts (e.g., traffic, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions) 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 Combination Gasoline Station alternative have the potential to be greater than the proposed Project(in the event a gas station or retail uses are developed on the remaining land), resulting in significantly 6 The September 2012 DEIR does not specify if the convenience market would be reduced under this alternative. Economic&Planning Systems,Inc. rot Ot4B-13.tlx EXHIBIT 1