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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project 6.3.6.4 Alternative 4: Alternative Site Location—Stockton Economic and Education Enterprise Zone (Eight Mile Road at 1-5) Alternative 4 would relocate the Project site to a suitable location within the City of Stockton Economic and Education Enterprise Zone located north of Eight Mile Road and east and west of 1-5 as shown in Figure 6-2. Existing conditions at the alternative site location are similar to the Project site in that it is mostly level and currently in agricultural production.The only way to confirm the presence of cultural resources is to conduct pre-construction surveys and/or train construction workers to recognize these resources during earth moving construction. Therefore, Project development at the alternative site is expected to be subject to cultural resource mitigation similar to that of the proposed Project. Because the alternative site is located within the City, development at the alternative site would include connection to City of Stockton utilities which would reduce the required construction footprint compared to the proposed Project. While this would result in a slight reduction for potential impacts to unknown tribal cultural resources, both sites have similar existing conditions and uses, and therefore similar cultural resource mitigation is expected to apply at the alternative site. In summary, the only expected cultural resource advantage of development at the alternative site would be the slight reduction in construction footprint resulting from elimination of onsite utilities. Therefore, Alternative 4 is considered slightly superior to the proposed Project from a cultural resources perspective. 6.3.7 Geology and Soils 6.3.7.1 Alternative 1: No Project Alternative The draft EIR finds that with implementation of Mitigation Measures 4.9-5a and b, Project impacts to geology and soils would be less than significant with mitigation incorporated. Under the No Project Alternative, none of the proposed Project impacts that require the above mitigation would occur. Therefore Alternative 1 is superior to the proposed Project for the issue of potential impacts to paleontological resources. 6.3.7.2 Alternative 2: Reduced Project— Phase 1 Hospital Only The proposed Phase 1 development area comprises 12.5 acres of the 42.4-acre Project site. This equates to an approximately 71 percent decrease in land development compared to the proposed Project with a corresponding reduction in potential impact to paleontological resources.Therefore Alternative 2 is moderately superior to the proposed Project for this issue. 6.3.7.3 Alternative 3: Connect to Public Utilities - Water, Wastewater and Storm Water Under this alternative, the onsite areas reserved for water, wastewater and storm water utility construction would no longer be required and the Project development footprint could be reduced accordingly, potentially benefiting paleontological resources. As shown on Figure 6-2, all pipeline extensions required Alternatives 6-15 October 2021