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CityCouncil | 2008-10-07 | 8 | higher if the shopping center was doing well and built out i the impact would be less; the delta would be less if the shopping center is doing well as opposed to doing poorly; more traffic would be generated if the shopping center is doing well, and the change in traffic is less; higher impacts would be realized by starting artificially low because there would be a bigger delta. Ms. Thomson stated the delta is the increase; a 112,000 square foot increase would generate 250 trips; the existing shopping center is not operating at 545,000 square feet, but at 475,000 square feet or 450,000 square feet. Vice Mayor Tam stated the adequacy of the EIR is being evaluated tonight; an EIR reviews a base level and worst-case action level and identifies impacts. The Supervising Planner stated the sales tax table looks at aggregated sales tax data for different sectors from 2003 and 2005; there can only be one highest year; sales tax would be down for all other years. Peter Galloway, Omni-Means, stated shopping center activity is not as robust as the 545,000 square feet would suggest said information was not available when counts were done; he feels that Omni-Means' counts are fairly accurate; Omni-Means took the existing base square footage to calculate trips and calculated trips for the proposed square footage using shopping center rates; driveway rates were not used because Omni-Means cannot account for trips coming in and out of the Post Office or restaurants that are not part of the shopping center; the Institute of Transportation Engineers ( ITE) shopping center rates were used after reviewing the matter with the Public Works Department. Councilmember Matarrese inquired whether the full build out rate was a calculation projected using the number of trips for shopping centers based on square foot of retail shopping centers, to which Mr. Galloway responded in the affirmative Councilmember Matarrese inquired whether the number is theoretical and remains the same whether the baseline is based on a conservative projection of not being a fully occupied or robust shopping center and is based on the square footage of the shopping center using the same criteria to peg the top number, to which Mr. Galloway responded in the affirmative. Councilmember Gilmore inquired whether the two to one lane drop was analyzed. Regular Meeting Alameda City Council 8 October 7, 2008 | CityCouncil/2008-10-07.pdf |