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General Plan Consistency Memo 1409 El Camino Real Redwood City is a charter city and is not required to report whether a project is consistent with the General Plan (Government Code §65800 et. seq.). However for the purpose of disclosure, the following analysis shows that the project is, in fact, consistent with the General Plan. This analysis considers the policies in the General Plan that are mandatory and applicable to new development. Built Environment; Urban Form & Land Use Goal BE-1: Achieve complete and integrated neighborhoods, corridors, and centers. See responses below, which show that the project is consistent with this goal. - Policy BE-1.4: Require that buildings and properties be designed to ensure compatibility within and provide interfaces between neighborhoods, corridors, and centers. The project is designed to provide compatible interfaces within its context. The El Camino Real ground floor includes the building lobby, leasing office, tenant’s activity room, two retail spaces, and three residential units with entry stoops. These uses include transparency for views into the space, awnings for the retail uses, and furnishings within the recessed entry plaza. This creates an active ground floor frontage along the corridor. In addition, the building steps down in height to three stories along El Camino, consistent with the DTPP standards. The ground floor frontage along Diller and Franklin contain residential units (with separate individual recessed stoops) and lobbies/common entries, for a more residential character. The majority of the building’s utilities front the alley way. - Policy BE-1.5: Require that new and renovated buildings be designed to avoid styles, colors, and materials that negatively impact the environment or the design character of the neighborhood, corridor, and center in which they are located. The project is designed with a Neoclassical character, consistent with the DTPP requirements for the Corridor area. Consistent with the neoclassical architectural character, details include horizontal belt courses, a flat roof, stucco for the upper floors and brick for the base, rectangular window shapes, and score patterns of the Classical order forms and proportion. Colors are earth tones to be harmonious with the surrounding buildings. - Policy BE-1.6: Require that new large‐scale projects are developed with an interconnected pattern of small blocks to induce walking and create walkable neighborhoods and to maximize connections between neighborhoods. If a new large‐scale development project is able to achieve circulation interconnectedness for all modes and maximize walkability, then the small block pattern may not be required. 8.A. - Page 55