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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project Sacramento area and the greater Bay area, where there is a higher number of high-quality medical facilities and personnel as well as a greater number of specialists and medical related job opportunities. 6.2.2 Alternative 2: Reduced Project—Phase 1 Hospital Only This Alternative was selected because a reduced project would have a corresponding reduction in construction and operational related VMT and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) impacts, both identified as significant and unavoidable impacts in this draft EIR. Alternative 2 would involve construction of Phase 1 improvements only on 12.5 acres of the western most 42.4-acre Project site (an approximately 30 percent reduction in site development). Improvements would be limited to the smaller single story 12-bed hospital, circulation and landscaping, and those onsite water, wastewater and storm water facilities necessary to serve Phase 1. Medical services offered under Alternative 2 would include emergency room, labor, delivery, emergent medicine, and outpatient surgery services. 6.2.3 Alternative 3: Connect to Public Utilities - Water, Wastewater and Storm Water This Alternative was selected because connection with City of Stockton public water, wastewater and storm water utilities would allow a corresponding reduction in the development footprint (an approximately 3.7 acre, or 8.7 percent reduction compared to the proposed Project) with related reduction in construction GHG emissions, a significant unavoidable impact identified in the draft EIR. Under Alternative 3, the Project would connect to City of Stockton for water, wastewater and storm water utilities and proposed onsite utilities would not be constructed. Connections to these City utilities would be accomplished as described below. Alternative 3 could be implemented for full Project buildout, or it could be implemented for Phase 2 development only. Should Alternative 3 be applied at the Phase 2 stage, Phase 1 would either continue receiving service from onsite utilities or could be combined with Phase 2 and served by City utility extensions. The physical improvements required to implement Alternative 3 are described below. 6.2.3.1 Water The Project site is not served by a potable public water system.Alternative 3 would establish an out-of- agency water service agreement for the Project with the City of Stockton. There are two options to connect to existing City water main lines. 1. Connect to existing 24-inch water main line on West Lane approximately 1-mile (5,500+/- feet) south of the Project site. 2. Connect to existing 12-inch water main line on Eight Mile Road approximately 1.2-miles (6,000+/- feet) west of the Project site. As shown in Figure 6-1. Existing Offsite Utilities, the nearest public water mains are located approximately one mile to the south in the City of Stockton. Connection to the 24-inch main is the most viable as it is a transmission main and likely has the pressure and flow capacity to serve the site. Connection to both the above mains may be necessary if a looped system is required. Alternatives 6-3 October 2021