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11 In addition, the City is moving forward with infrastructure and capital improvement projects to offset potential impacts associated with development in Downtown Redwood City. For example, emergency vehicle preemption systems have been installed along key corridors such as Marshall Street, Jefferson Avenue and El Camino Real, in addition to other isolated intersections. Other capital improvement projects include neighborhood traffic calming (e.g. speed humps on Fernside Street), and bicycle and pedestrian improvements. The City is also working with CalTrans and the San Mateo County Transportation Authority on the US 101/Woodside Road Interchange Project. The City is in the process of developing and updating a 5-year capital improvement program which will identify funding for more projects to offset potential impacts. The City has implemented traffic calming measures since at least 1997, when it adopted its first policy and set of guidelines that outlined the use of speed humps. The purpose of traffic calming is to address complaints about undesirable driving behavior (speeding, not yielding to pedestrians, etc.) in residential neighborhoods. When requests are received they are evaluated against the City’s guidelines. Of the roughly twenty traffic calming requests that were evaluated and prioritized last year, half qualified for traffic calming according to the City’s guidelines. These requests are being addressed in order of priority according to staff and funding availability. Thus, for reasons explained above and discussed further below, potentially significant impacts in the DTPP area, including in the project’s immediate environs, have been evaluated, and no further environmental review is required. 2. There Are No Changed Traffic Circumstances that Will Create Traffic Impacts that Require a New or Supplemental EIR (a) Appellant’s Contention: Traffic conditions are significantly worse than forecast. Anomalies exist indicating that the assumptions underlying the traffic data in the General Plan and DTPP EIR were incorrect. (Appeal, pp. 5-7.) City Response: In the discussion below, staff summarizes General Plan and DTPP traffic projections, explains the process for determining whether a project is likely to trigger a threshold of significance and create a significant impact, identifies where development under the General Plan and DTPP were determined to create significant impacts (including significant and unavoidable impacts), explains that the issue at hand is whether the impacts of this site-specific project are within the previously identified impacts, or whether it will create new significant impacts or substantial increases in the severity of any previously identified impacts, and explains that it will not. General Plan Traffic Projections The Redwood City General Plan was adopted on October 11, 2010. An EIR was prepared for the General Plan that, among other things, considered existing traffic and circulation and modeled potential future traffic generation based on full build-out of the various land use designations throughout the City. For this analysis the City developed a citywide travel demand model based on the C/CAG regional model, which includes 8.A. - Page 11