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5. BOARDS, COMMISSION AND COMMITTEE REPORTS A. Legislative Committee report - Prezoning 106.5 acres to "IP" (Industrial Park) District and 9.5 acres to "or" (General Industrial) District located at 1000 Seaport Blvd. This item was continued from March 11, 1996. (100) Councilman Claire, chair of the Council Legislative Committee, invited his Committee members and the audience to join in the discussion, and described the findings in the proposed Resolution. "The California Enviromnental Quality Act requires the City under the Final Enviromnental Impact Report which has been received, to make certain findings, especially when the project itself has what are considered to be unavoidable enviromnental risks. We must balance them off with the benefits of the proposed project to make sure that they outweigh unavoidable, adverse enviromnental risks." Councilman Claire stated the recommendations from the Committee: 1) Port/Pacific Shores Land Exchange. The Charter of the City of Redwood City "requires the City and Port to obtain basically the same value for value received....We would suggest that...an appraisal be made and the value of IDe property received by the Port be equal or exceed the property that the Port is giving up....It is a requirement of the Charter." 2) Traffic mitigation costs. "The payment of (traffic mitigation costs) should be borne by the project itself rather than 'its fair share'. But that is something that needs to be negotiated later....The term 'fair share' used in the FEIR really....shouldn't be there. That is up to further negotiations in the process." 3) Impact upon Public Services. "We want to delete any implied references to the inclusion of non-project properties within the maintenance district. The FEIR suggests we were going to set up a maintenance district and that there was a possibility that the other properties might be involved in that, and that should be deleted. We are not bringing other properties in on this project." Councilman Claire said "we had a number of project alternatives. We want to, in fact, reject all of them....The City Council has overriding considerations that make the other project alternatives really not viable." Mayor Hartnett advised that Councilman Claire's report summarized what was in the proposed Resolution. Mayor Hartnett asked if anyone wished to speak to this issue. Ralph Nobles, 3720 Country Club Drive, Redwood City, asked Council for clarification on the issue of the Charter "requiring equal value between the 9.5 acres and the 140 acres, and what happens if they aren't equal. How does that affect the whole mitigation plan of the project?" City Attorney Schricker restated Mr. Noble's questions regarding "what would be the affect on the project if the mitigation plan did not go forward, and it might not go forward if the appraised values were not found to be equivalent or the value greater received. MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Page No. 172 Regular Meeting Minutes April 8, 1996 Page 4