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an entitlement of 12,243 acre-feet of water from the SFPUC through 2034. The SFPUC agreement sets forth a process by which water reductions may be instituted. To date, no reductions have been mandated by SFPUC, and the City is not in a period of water rationing. The projected water use by the Project, including for office use and landscaping, would not generate additional water supply impacts beyond those studied in the DTPP EIR. (Initial Study, pp. 34-36; Memorandum from the Public Works Department, dated June 26, 2015.) The DTPP EIR explains that if the SFPUC were to reduce the City’s water supply (which it has not), then the City would evaluate if adequate supplies exist to serve a particular project. As the EIR states: “In the future, if there were times of water shortage that trigger cutbacks in water supply from SFPUC, the City would need to evaluate specific developments that apply for new water service, including those within the DPP area, on a case-by-case basis to determine if adequate supply exists to serve such developments. The City would conduct this evaluation only during periods when water rationing is in effect on existing customers.” (DTPP EIR, p. 10-9.) Since this situation has not been triggered, no further analysis is required. In any event, the City has performed additional analysis. While the SFPUC has not imposed any cutbacks or rationing on the City, the State has imposed mandatory water reductions. For Redwood City, a reduction of 8% applies (whereas other cities on the peninsula have reductions as high as 36%.) The City is meeting these reductions through public and private conservation measures. For example, the City has implemented an extensive outreach program to encourage water conservation which includes the “brown is the new green” and “lawn be gone” campaigns, bill inserts, banners and signs, and partnerships with Safeway stores and local churches to get advertisements to consumers. The City’s Public Works Department also has extensive information on the website “dashboard” to help water users track and monitor their water use. Further, the City has reached out to the top 1,000 water users and has installed smart meters for real-time tracking of water consumption. Additionally, the City participates in a number of rebate and giveaway programs for installation of high efficiency water fixtures and appliances, rain barrel and sprinkler rebates, and cash incentives to remove irrigation-dependent lawns and landscaping. In addition, while the DTPP EIR relied on the 2005 Urban Water Management Plan (UWMP), the City has an updated 2010 UWMP which considered all land use projects described in the City’s General Plan through 2030, including all projected growth under the Mixed Use-Downtown land use category which is implemented by through the DTPP. Full build-out of all downtown development that falls within the Maximum Allowable Development (MAD) caps was planned and accounted for in the UWMP. 7.A. - Page 27