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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project 6.3.10.4 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 tribal cultural resources is to consult with native American tribes that have requested consultation.Therefore, Project development at the alternative site is expected to be subject to tribal 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 tribal cultural resource mitigation is expected to apply at the alternative site. In summary, the only expected tribal 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 tribal cultural resources perspective. 6.4 CEQA Environmentally Superior Alternative CEQA Guidelines Section 15126.6 provides that an EIR should identify the "environmentally superior" alternative. "If the environmentally superior alternative is the 'no project' alternative, the EIR shall also identify an environmentally superior alternative among the other alternatives." The following sections summarize information and the comparative impact analyses presented above and identifies the environmentally superior alternative in keeping with CEQA requirements. 6.4.1 Alternative 1: No Project Alternative Under the No Project Alternative, the proposed hospitals and medical office building, onsite circulation, parking, water, wastewater and storm drain improvements would not be constructed. Furthermore, the proposed medical services would not be offered at the Project site and the Project objectives would not be met. The No Project Alternative would generate no VMT impact, nor would it produce direct construction or operational air emissions, including GHG emissions, thereby eliminating proposed Project VMT and GHG significant and unavoidable impacts. The No Project Alternative would also eliminate the following potentially significant but mitigable impacts of the proposed Project: Conversion of 33.11 acres of active agricultural land. Construction equipment and operational traffic NOx emissions. Alternatives 6-21 October 2021