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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project significance thresholds presented in the City guidelines will be used to determine whether the project is consistent or inconsistent with General Plan policies on LOS, and whether the magnitude of inconsistency should be considered significant or less than significant. Therefore, in this draft EIR LOS is not used to identify a significant impact under CEQA; LOS is used to identify consistency with General Plan policies. General Plan Policy Consistency Criteria As noted immediately above, in the Traffic Study prepared for the Project, the significance of the proposed Project's inconsistency with General Plan policies is based on a determination of whether resulting LOS is considered acceptable. A project's inconsistency with General Plan policies is considered significant if implementation of the project would result in LOS changing from levels considered acceptable to levels considered unacceptable, or if the project would substantially worsen already unacceptable LOS. The City of Stockton Transportation Impact Analysis Guidelines note that: "The City of Stockton's General Plan has a LOS 'D' standard for its roadway system. Intersections and roadway segments operating at LOS 'A', 'B', 'C', or'D' conditions are considered acceptable, while those operating at LOS 'E' or'F' conditions are considered unacceptable. "For a City intersection, a transportation impact for a project is considered significant if the addition of project traffic would cause an intersection that would function at LOS 'D' or better without the Project to function at LOS 'E' or'F'. "For City intersections with a LOS 'E' or'F' conditions without the project, a transportation impact for a project is considered significant if the addition of project traffic causes an increase of greater than 5 seconds in the average delay for the intersection." Portions of the City's guidelines do not specifically address criteria used to quantify changes in operating conditions on roadway segments or freeway rampjunctions. For this draft EIR, the City's significance thresholds described above are also applied to roadway segments and freeway rampjunctions. As shown in Tables 4.19-1, 4.19-2 and 4.19-3, LOS at intersections is measured in seconds of delay, LOS on roadway segments is measured in traffic volume, and LOS at rampjunctions is measured in vehicle density. Therefore, for roadway segments and ramp junctions already at LOS E or F, an increase of greater than five seconds of delay cannot be identified. Because roadway segment LOS is measured in traffic volumes, rather than seconds of delay, an increase in traffic volumes is used in this draft EIR, in lieu of the threshold of five seconds of delay. At ramp junctions when the demand exceeds capacity, an increase in density is not identified; however, the densities of each area are based upon the volume. Therefore, for this draft EIR, if a roadway segment or rampjunction operates at LOS E or F without the project, the inconsistency with General Plan policies is considered significant if the addition of project traffic causes an increase of greater than five percent in traffic volumes. Transportation 4.19-16 October 2021