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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project intended to accommodate exceptional job-producing developments and only permit housing and other facilities that are supportive to the job-producing effort. Businesses envisioned for this designation include those that provide a significant number of jobs offering wages averaging above Area Median Income, as supported by a comprehensive economic impact analysis, and that cannot be reasonably accommodated elsewhere within the city limit. This specifically includes healthcare and medical facilities. In support of a major job-generator, this designation promotes: • Linked transportation and housing options so that future employees can live close to their jobs and commute using transportation modes that support the City's vehicle miles traveled (VMT) reduction goals; • Businesses that reduce VMT by providing vanpool programs, car share services, and active transportation alternatives; • Proximate housing stock that supports the job generator, including single-family, multi-family, and/or mixed-use dwellings at various levels of affordability, with housing costs that generally correspond to the income levels of the jobs generated by the project. The eastern boundary of the Alternative Site is located approximately 2.1 miles west of the Project site via Eight Mile Road. According to the Traffic Impact Study prepared for the Project (KD Anderson and Associates 2021), the current VMT per Service Population in the County General Plan Planning Area is 24.16 VMT per Service Population and the Proposed Project is expected to result in 85.98 VMT per Service Population. Vehicular VMT and related GHG emissions are both expected to remain significant and unavoidable under Alternative 4. In summary, it is unlikely that relocating the Project a few miles west of its proposed location would significantly reduce the Project's contribution to local VMT and associated GHG emissions. Thus, Alternative 4 would have VMT and GHG impacts similar to those of the proposed Project. 6.3.3 Agriculture and Forestry 6.3.3.1 Alternative 1: No Project Alternative The draft EIR finds that with implementation of Mitigation Measure 4.4-1 a, Project impacts to active agriculture would be less than significant. Implementation of Alternative 1 would result in no Project development and therefore no impact to active agricultural land.Therefore Alternative 1 is superior to the proposed Project for the issue of loss of active agricultural land. 6.3.3.2 Alternative 2: Reduced Project— Phase 1 Hospital Only The proposed Phase 1 development area comprises 12.5 acres of primarily active agriculture. Therefore, the Reduced Project Alternative would result in an approximately 71 percent decrease in loss of active agricultural land compared to the proposed Project and is superior for the issue of loss of active agricultural land. Alternatives 6-10 October 2021