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7. Future Parking Facilities and Vehicular Access For the purposes of the environmental documentation, analyses of alternative development proposals are required, including the No-Build and Preferred alternatives. 7.1 No Build Alternative Analysis of the No-Build alternative assumes that some growth in activity may occur on the existing campus but no new buildings will be developed on the site. County services will be provided from existing leased space or will be provided in new buildings outside of the downtown area. In this case, no new parking facilities would be developed and the estimated 880 owned and leased parking spaces would continue to be used. Access to these parking spaces would effectively continue as it does today. Some growth in traffic would be experienced, including non-County campus related background traffic. 7.2 Development Alternative 1 (Preferred) The preferred development alternative assumes that there will be approximately 1.385 off-street parking spaces provided by 2005 to accommodate on-campus growth and consolidation. The preferred development alternative assumes that the existing above-grade parking garage will be demolished and that 1,200 parking spaces will be constructed in a new garage under a new pedestrian plaza north of the existing Administration Building as illustrated on Figure 2. It is assumed that two vehicular access points will be required to operate this large parking facility safely and efficiently. One access point would be on Oakes Avenue as currently provided for the existing garage facility. The second access point is assumed to be on Pacific Avenue at the existing intersection of Rockefeller Avenue. This will allow direct access to and from a principal arterial at a signal- controlled location, minimizing the traffic impacts on adjacent streets. The preferred development alternative also assumes that new justice facilities will be developed on the block of the current jail and that some of the existing on-site surface parking spaces will be removed. It is estimated that about 20 parking spaces under the existing jail building will continue to be available for restricted use (such as jail staff) and that this parking will be accessible from Lombard Avenue as it is today. A further 30 surface parking spaces will be available on the block, many of which may also be restricted in use. Primary access to these spaces will likely be from Wall Street. but some restricted access may occur from Pacific Avenue or Lombard Avenue. The preferred development alternative assumes that the existing surface parking lot north of Wall Street and west of Oakes Avenue will remain essentially in its current configuration with approximately 100 parking spaces. Access to this parking would continue to occur on Wall Street and Rockefeller Avenue. Finally, this alternative assumes that about 20 of the existing parking spaces under the County Court house would be available for restricted use, such as judges. Access to this limited number of spaces would continue to be from Wetmore Avenue. CRI Transportation Impact Analysis Page 18 June 2002