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Environmental Impact Report Alternatives Assessment for the proposed Lodi, California, Love's Travel Stops Project Memorandum January 28,2013 deteriorated LOS conditions at evaluated intersections relative to the LOS conditions of the proposed Project. Alternative 4: Alternative Use—Retail with Fast-Food Restaurant Under the Retail with Fast-Food Restaurant alternative, the Project would contain a 7,700-square-foot convenience store and a 3,000-square-foot fast-food restaurant. All fuel dispensing services would be omitted under this alternative. Alternative 4 Feasibility Assessment The Retail with Fast-Food Restaurant 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 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. The Retail with Fast Food alternative does not.conform to 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. 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 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 Retail with Fast- Food Restaurant alternative have the potential to be greater than the proposed Project(in the event retail uses and a fast-food restaurant are developed on the remaining land), resulting in significantly deteriorated LOS conditions at evaluated intersections relative to the LOS conditions of the proposed Project. Economic and Revenue Impacts of Proposed Project This memorandum also includes these select economic and revenue Impacts generated by the proposed Project: One-time construction impacts. Economic&Planning Systems,Inc. 6 v;1122a W22151 ran�con V22M m 01-28-JX. EXHIBIT 1