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• To provide a travel stop facility of sufficient size to capture overflow overnight truck parking. (DEIR,pp. 3-1 through 3-2.) B. DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT ALTERNATIVES The Draft EIR identified and compared environmental effects of the four alternatives listed below with environmental impacts resulting from the Project. The following alternatives to the Project were evaluated: Alternative 1:No Project Alternative 1. Description The County did not assume that"No Project"for this site meant"no development" Rather, the County was cognizant of the requirement from CEQA Guidelines section 15126.6, subdivision (e)(2), that a No Project Alternative must consider"what would reasonably be expected to occur in the foreseeable future if the project were not approved,based on current plans and consistent with available infrastructure and community services." (See also CEQA Guidelines, § 15126.6, subd. (e)(3)(C).) Consistent with this obligation, "where failure to proceed with the project will not result in preservation of existing environmental conditions, the analysis should identify the practical result of the project's non-approval and not create and analyze a set of artificial assumptions that would be required to preserve the existing physical environment." (Id., subd. (e)(3)(E).) Under the No Project alternative, development of the proposed truck stop would not occur. In the short term, it is anticipated that the proposed Project site would remain vacant. In the long term, it is anticipated that the site would be developed for other uses permined under the San Joaquin County Zoning Ordinance could be developed on the site. For the purposes of this analysis, potential alternative uses are assumed to be those that could be developed under the existing County zoning designation by right, that is, uses that could be developed without a review process similar to that associated with the proposed Project. The Project site is zoned C- FS, Commercial-Freeway Services. The range of potential alternative uses that could be developed in the C-FS zone is defined by Table 9-405.2, contained in Title 9 of the San Joaquin County Code (Development Title). Some land uses are allowed "by right,"meaning no formal approvals are required. Other uses require special approval, such as a Site Approval, a Special Purpose Plan and a Use Permit. There are three land uses allowed by right in the C-FS zone: minor utility services,family day care home,and small group care. Minor Utility Services. Minor utility services,as defined by County Code Section 9-115.580,are utility services that are necessary support principal development involving only minor structures. Typical uses include electrical distribution lines, utility poles and pole transformers. Such structures would not be expected to generate impacts associated with more typical freeway commercial development, particularly traffic and attendant air quality impacts. Therefore, this land use was not analyzed further in the Draft EIR.(DEIR,p.7-7.) Love's Travel Stops Environmental Impact Report 14 Findings of Fact and Statement of Overriding Considerations