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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project Reduced potential impacts to four sensitive plant and animal species as well as migratory birds and raptors. Reduced potential impacts due to the routine transport, use, disposal, or accidental release of hazardous materials during Project construction and operation; and, Reduced potential impacts to unknown cultural and tribal resources. Alternative 3 has the overall effect of slightly reducing the onsite Project footprint by connecting to City of Stockton water, wastewater and storm water utilities. While this would result in a minor reduction in the potentially significant but mitigatable impacts of Alternative 3, as a tradeoff it is expected to result in equal or greater construction related VMT, air quality, and GHG emissions compared to those associated with onsite utilities under the proposed Project. 6.4.4 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. Relocating the Project 2.1 miles west of its proposed location would not significantly reduce the Project's significant and unavoidable contribution to local VMT and associated GHG emissions. It is expected that VMT and GHG impacts would remain significant and unavoidable under Alternative 4. Because the alternative site is located adjacent to the City of Stockton and within its Sphere of Influence and General Plan Planning Area, consistent with City policy, Alternative 4 would likely require annexation and connection to City of Stockton utilities. As discussed for Alternative 3 above, this would reduce the construction footprint by approximately 3.7 acres or 8.7 percent.Thus, Alterative 4 would achieve similar proportional reductions to those potentially significant but mitigable impacts presented above in the Section 6.4.3 Alternative 3 bullet list. One exception is Alternative 4 would eliminate potentially significant but mitigable hazardous material risk of upset conditions associated with the former gas well located on the proposed Project site. Alternative 4 has the overall effect of slightly reducing the Project footprint by connecting to City of Stockton water, wastewater and storm water utilities with a corresponding reduction in proposed Project potentially significant but mitigable impacts, including elimination of potential hazard impacts associated with the former gas well. While Alternative 4 would achieve minor impact reductions, similar to Alternative 3, Alternative 4 is expected to result in approximately equal VMT and GHG operational emissions compared to those associated with the proposed Project. It should be noted that a Project objective is to utilize land currently owned by the applicant as the development site for the Project. Because the Gill Family owns the Project site, it can invest capital into the infrastructure necessary for a project of this magnitude, rather than having to divert capital into land acquisition. Thus, the alternative site is inconsistent with Project objectives and may be infeasible. Alternatives 6-24 October 2021