Volume 2: Draft Gorst Planned Action Environmental Impact Statement

GORST PLANNED ACTION EIS | AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT, SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS, AND MITIGATION MEASURESSignificant Unavoidable Adverse ImpactsUnder all alternatives, the Gorst Creek watershed and the Gorst UGA would experience additional population andemployment growth. Development in the Gorst Creek UGA is anticipated under the alternatives would result in nosignificant unavoidable adverse impacts on water resources. All alternatives would have a minor effect on waterresources from short-term construction related impacts. As previously described, Alternative 1 would have longtermmoderate impacts on water resources. Both Alternatives 2 and 3 would provide long-term beneficial effectson water resources from adoption and implementation of the Watershed Characterization & Framework Plan.Alternative 3 provides the greatest ecological benefit by establishing a low intensity waterfront along the shorelineof Sinclair Inlet that would, as redevelopment occurs, partially restore natural hydrology along that portion of theshoreline.Draft | June 2013 3-25