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The County should recirculate the DEIR. • He made a statement that in the spirit of regional coordina- tion we have an opportunity to avoid the need for future General Plan Amendments and EIRs, especially in the southwest- ern corner of San Joaquin County. Mountain House, Safeway, Gateway Business Park and Tracy Station need to be addressed. The City of Tracy has attended one workshop and one slide show on the Mountain House project and has read the book. This is an opportunity to coordinate, before certification (of the EIR) , and avoid the duplication of services. Mike McClusky, Director of the Department of Public Works for the City of Tracy, made the following points: • He commented on the transportation section of the DEIR. he said that funding for the "planned improvements" noted on Page 4 . 14-16, paragraph 1, is millions of dollars short. He asked which transportation projects would be deferred if the "fair share" funding, noted in the mitigation measures, is approved for Mountain House. He said the County Department of Public Works needs to thoroughly analyze the fair share measures. • The DEIR states that 70% of the traffic will be internal trips (page 4 . 14-19 , proposed project scenario only) . The Reston new town in Virginia has only 30% of all trips generated being internal trips. Something is wrong with the estimates or with the report of the Reston new town. • Figure 4 . 14-5 shows the project circulation map. He said the City has requested that Patterson Pass Road be the major connection to Byron Road. They want to de-emphasize Byron Road. The City is trying to plan for Mountain House by providing easy east-west traffic. They are trying to de- emphasize southwest-northeast traffic movement. The City is asking that major traffic on Byron Road be diverted to I-205 via Patterson pass Road. • Mitigation measure 4 . 14-1(e) states that bus service will be available with the first house built. Nowhere does th- DEIR address the problem of TDA funds that are earmarked for transit being instead used to build roads. The cost of initial transit service will be provided by the County, not the developer. Page 4 . 14-54, notes buses. The measure states that the cost would be split between the City and Mountain House. The City cannot afford it and would object to this measure. • Page 4 . 14-27, paragraph 2 notes the strong interaction between Mountain House and the City. Nowhere in the DEIR does it discuss the impacts to the street system of Tracy. The City has its own transportation model and they are available to run the traffic model, if the cost is paid by the developer, to determine local impacts. • Page 4 . 14-41 discusses Transportation Demand Management (TDM) assumes a high 5% TDM trip reduction. There would have to be higher land uses for this reduction. The EIR hopes for a 10 to 15 percent trip reduction. There is no documentation that PC MINUTES -7- JAN 16, 1992