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8.A. - Page 103 Section 4: Evaluation of Environmental Impacts Policy NR - 3.1 Require new development to demonstrate that adequate water is available before project approval and to fund its fair -share costs associated with the provision of water service. c) Less than Significant Impact. The updated Housing Element is focused on achieving local housing objectives and does not authorize any construction that will result in the construction of new storm water drainage facilities or the expansion of existing facilities. No additional storm water drainage facilities or expansions are proposed as part of the proposed Housing Element. Drainage improvements are constructed on a project -by- project basis. This typically involves routing a major drainage course through a project by concentrating the flow into an acceptable drainage facility. Construction of drainage devices will be subject to standard construction requirements for erosion control and water quality requirements. Future development will comply with existing standards and regulations for conveyance of storm water; thus, impacts to the environment from construction of storm drain infrastructure will be less than significant. d) Less than Significant Impact. The primary infrastructure constraint in Redwood City is the availability of water. Redwood City's sole supplier of potable water is the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) through the Hetch Hetchy regional water system. The amount of water available to the SFPUC's retail and wholesale customers is constrained by hydrology, physical facilities, and institutional parameters that allocate water supply. Due to these constraints, the SFPUC is very dependent on reservoir storage to manage its water supplies. According to the 2009 Settlement Agreement and Master Contract with San Francisco, Redwood City's contracted supply assurance is 12,243 acre -feet per year (af /yr). In the past, Redwood City consumed more than the contractual amount and was able to purchase additional required supply from SFPUC as a result of other customers not using their full contractual supply. To help achieve the goal of reducing demand on the Hetch Hetchy system, the City Council approved the Redwood City Recycled Water Project in 2003. The Recycled Water Project provides water to be used to irrigate eligible landscapes, as well as for industrial applications and toilet flushing in new commercial buildings. In 2008, the City also adopted a Recycled Water Use Ordinance, which requires the use of recycled water for both external landscaping and internal use on new apartments and condominiums, commercial, industrial, and governmental projects. In addition, the City has initiated a variety of water conservation measures, including residential plumbing retrofits, system water audits, leak detection and repair, incentives for large landscape preservation, and rebate programs. These efforts were enacted by the City to address the demands for a fixed water supply. The proposed Housing Element will not result in any direct impacts on population growth or additional demand on water supplies, since the Element implements established General Plan land use policy. Therefore, the proposed project will not result in the need for new or expanded water supplies, nor revise any policies associated with water supply or demand. Existing General Plan policies require new development to demonstrate that adequate water is available before project approval and to fund its fair -share costs associated with the provision of water service. The proposed Housing Element does not include changes to land use policy set forth in the General Plan and analyzed in the EIR. Therefore, the proposed Housing Element will not create an additional impact. Impacts will be less than significant. e) Less than Significant Impact. Wastewater treatment requirements are established by the San Francisco Bay RWQCB. The City evaluated potential impacts in the General Plan EIR and determined that the impacts were less than significant. The City will review future development as part of the standard review process to determine adequate capacity to serve the discharge needs in comparison to treatment plant capacity. Impacts related to wastewater treatment capacity are anticipated to be less than significant. 33 Redwood City General Plan, 2015 -2023 Housing Element. 2014. 64 Redwood City Housing Element Initial Study