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Selecting Preferred Alternative
As noted by the appeals court, the Final
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for this particular project had " candidly
acknowledged that all build alternatives,
including the Preferred Alternative
(Alternative 1C), use at least one Section
4(f) property. " In making this determination, the Final EIS had included a
Section 4(f) analysis with an extensive
discussion of avoidance alternatives for
both the SPSP and the AP.
Moreover, in finding that no feasible
and prudent avoidance alternatives existed, the FHWA had also rejected as " imprudent " the spliced-beam construction
Alternative 6A favored by the Conservation Alliance.
Using spliced-beam construction
would allow Alternative 6A to completely span the AP and thus avoid § 4(f) land
but, on account of the larger footings, it
would use more than 67 times as much
wetland acreage as pile-bent construction
(0.1012 acres versus 0.0015 acres).
Further, as noted by the federal
appeals court, " both the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
- the agency with jurisdiction over
the AP and the SPSP - and the South
Florida Water Management District expressed a preference for piers in the AP
over additional impacts to any adjacent
wetlands. " In the opinion of the court,
the agencies' preference for piers in the
AP and the greater impact on adjacent
wetland habitats associated with splicedbeam construction was sufficient " to
deem that construction method imprudent. "
Moreover, as noted by the court, the
Section 4(f) analysis had " cross-referenced other sections of the Final EIS
that discussed the City's evaluation process. " This process included a scoring
system that was designed by the FHWA,
the city and the FDOT. This scoring
system included five categories, each

with different point totals reflecting their
weight in the analysis: (1) meeting the
project purpose and need (0-20 points),
(2) social and community impacts (0-10
points), (3) natural environment impacts

(0-10 points), (4) physical impacts (0-5
points), and (5) project cost (0-5 points).
Scoring was done first by an independent team of consultants and then
by a panel of officials from the city, the

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