PLEASE take a minute to send an email of concern amy.million@dublin.ca.gov council@dublin.ca.gov From the IKEA Environmental Impact Report (EIR) - Significant Impacts to Air Quality, Biological Resources, Greenhouse Gases, Noise, and Transportation/Traffic. See pages of 26, 28, 36, 46, and 54 respectively of the EIR. The EIR projects 9,630 daily trips to IKEA on weekdays and 17,780 trips on Saturdays. No number is given for Sundays. The study projects a total of 1,934 trips (in and out) in the peak Saturday hours (3.6-36 and 3.6-37). IKEA will be open from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm, eleven hours (2-11). If you divide 17,780 trips by 11 hours, the result is 1616 trips per hour, on average. This means there will be about 2,000 (or slightly less in non-peak hours) extra cars in this small area, each hour, during the busy weekends. The EIR states that many of the patrons of IKEA would be drawn from Livermore, Tracy, Manteca, Modesto, possibly Stockton, and cities along the I-680 corridor (3.6-37). These patrons would be coming to Dublin specifically to shop at IKEA and would likely not come otherwise. These additional cars would have a significant adverse impact on Dublin traffic and inconvenience Dublin residents. The proposed IKEA hub would be on one large block. There is no entrance to that block on the sides facing Hacienda and I-580. The 2,000 cars per hour would all have to use driveways on Martinelli and Arnold. Martinelli is a very short street and cannot hold many cars. These roads are already busy servicing Persimmon Place and Hacienda Crossings. Hacienda also is used by cars going to BART and the water slide, when it is open. Dublin Blvd. will have to accommodate the vehicles from the 2,000 new homes going in at Dublin Crossing (4-1) on the former Camp Parks property. Traffic on Dublin Blvd. is already often terrible because of spill over traffic from I-580. The additional traffic will be a nightmare. The consultant used traffic analysis from local transportation agencies to rate the peak-period traffic impact at segments of the road transportation system ie. highways, on and off ramps, city streets, and intersections controlled by stop lights that would be affected by the IKEA. It rated these segments with a Level of Service (LOS) rating from A to F. A is for "little or no delays" and each level progressively worsens to F being "extreme traffic delays". The EIR indicates that the following intersections would degrade to LOS F at peak hours with the planned IKEA: Hopyard and Owens, Hacienda and Martinelli, Tassajara and Owens, Santa Rita and I-580 eastbound ramp, and Fallon and Dublin Blvd. Several other segments would degrade to LOS E (3.6-101 and 3.6-102). The report later states that with mitigation the LOS could be repaired to LOS D (3.6-125). The improvement in LOS scores would be achieved by lengthening turn lanes and tweaking traffic light times. I must say I am skeptical. The report itself states "Prior to public review, it was extensively reviewed and evaluated by the City of Dublin" (1-3). The freeways are also affected. Fifteen of nineteen segments of eastbound I-580 would be rated F and several others E at peak-hours (3.6-152 and 3.6-153). I believe the proposed IKEA would cause severe traffic problems on Dublin Blvd., our only cross town street and on the surrounding freeways. It would also be a horrible blue and yellow eyesore. At 61 feet tall, the height is equivalent to eight floors with eight foot ceilings. This project is not appropriate for Dublin. https://dublin-development.icitywork.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IKEA-Retail-Center-IS-Final-Draft.pdf PLEASE EMAIL BEFORE TOMORROW, Friday March 16, 2018: Remind Mayor David Haubert and Council Members Goel,Gupta,Hernandez-Strah that an EIR which received a grade F should not be considered for our city. Dublin deserves better! Amy Million, City of Dublin Principle Planner amy.million@dublin.ca.gov by 5:00 p.m. this Friday, 3/16.