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7 – Alternatives Draft Environmental Impact Report February 2021 14800 W. Schulte Road Logistics Center 7-4 As discussed in Section 4.1, Air Quality, operation-generated NOx emissions would exceed the SJVAPCD threshold of significance, even with incorporation of Mitigation Measure (MM-) AQ-1 through MM-AQ-3. These operation- generated NOx emissions are primarily from mobile sources associated with vehicle emissions from employees and truck trips. To fully avoid this operational air quality impact, the Project would require a substantial reduction in size to approximately 35% of the currently proposed Project square footage. Such a reduction in scale of the Project may meet most of the Project objectives, but to a substantially less degree than the Project. Additionally, this reduction would not maximize the use of the previously developed, underutilized Project site (Objective 3). Therefore, given this level of Project size reduction would fail to fully meet any of the Project objectives, and largely because a 65% reduction in the Project’s size would clearly make this alternative infeasible for the Project applicant, this alternative was rejected from further consideration. (Note that a Reduced Development Intensity Alternative, which assumes a more reasonable reduction in Project size, is considered in Section 7.3.3, below). 7.3 Project Alternatives Under Further Consideration The following provides analysis of the No Project/No Development Alternative (Alternative 1) and the two build alternatives: the No Project/Other Development Project Alternative (Alternative 2) and the Reduced Development Intensity Alternative (Alternative 3). The evaluation below provides a relative comparison between the Project and each of the three Project alternatives. The analysis considers the issue areas evaluated in Chapter 4, Environment Analysis, and Chapter 5, Effects Found Not To Be Significant, of this Draft EIR. In many cases, the Project and a Project alternative may share the same level of significance (i.e., both scenarios would result in a less-than-significant impact). However, although they might share the same level of significance under CEQA, the actual degree of impact may be slightly different for each scenario, and this relative difference is the basis for a conclusion of greater or lesser impacts compared to the Project. An environmentally superior alternative is identified among the a lternatives evaluated in this Draft EIR. An alternative would be environmentally superior to the Project if it would result in fewer or less significant environmental impacts while achieving most of the Project objectives. 7.3.1 No Project/No Development Alternative (Alternative 1) Description of Alternative 1 Under Alternative 1, construction of the Project would not occur. The Project site would remain unchanged, and development activities related to construction and operation of the proposed industrial/warehouse buildings, associated office spaces, surface parking and loading areas, and all other proposed on- and off-site improvements would not occur. This alternative assumes that the Project site would remain in its current vacant and undeveloped state for the foreseeable future. Alternative 1 Impact Analysis Under Alternative 1, the Project site would remain unchanged and would remain a vacant, undeveloped, yet disturbed property. On-site conditions would remain similar to existing conditions, and because development activities associated with the Project would not occur, all environmental impacts would be reduced or avoided compared to the Project.