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March 15, 201r Mr. Jonathan Hayes Greystar 450 Sansome Street, Suite 500, San Francisco, CA 94111 Re: Response to Selected Comments in the Appeal Letter by Kris Johnson regarding the Traffic Study Prepared for the Proposed Residential and Retail Development at 1409 El Camino Real in Redwood City, California Dear Mr. Hayes: This letter provides our responses to selected comments in the Appeal Letter by Kris Johnson regarding the 1409 El Camino Real Residential and Retail Development Traffic Study. Queuing Comment: “Neither the Developer Traffic Study nor the DTTP EIR studied the impacts that the 1409 Project would have on turn-lane queues and queue "spillback." The study did not indicate where vehicular queuing is generally concentrated, or that the storage capacity of the turn-lane queues. North-bound El Camino Traffic throughout turning left on Jefferson and James, for example, often causes traffic on El Camino to be restricted to one lane since cars are backed up making lefthand turns and traffic along El Camino is forced to a complete standstill. This scenario repeats itself at intersections near the 1409 Project. Nonetheless, the Developer Traffic Study ignored these impacts and did not evaluate mitigation measures (expanding queue lengths, for example).” Response: The City has established thresholds of significance for CEQA studies based on the City’s intersection Level of Service Policy, as set forth in the City’s General Plan. Operational issues, such as queuing, are one factor that can affect vehicle delay for one movement or one approach. Level of service is based on the average vehicle delay for the entire intersection over a full hour. When queuing is evaluated specifically, the project is expected to add a negligible number of vehicles (less than five vehicles per hour) to the northbound left-turn movements on El Camino Real at Jefferson Avenue and at James Avenue. Thus, the project is not expected to increase the maximum left-turn queue length at these locations. Traffic Analysis Scope Comment: “Traffic impacts resulting from the 1409 Project have not been adequately studied. The scope of the City's traffic review related to the 1409 Project was intentionally narrow to hide the massive traffic impacts the 1409 Project will create. It's almost as though Hexagon was told to ignore the most problematic areas and omit them from its study. A. Inadequate City Involvement in Scoping. The City performed no analysis relating to the 1409 Project. The traffic study conducted by Hexagon Transportation Consultants, Inc. and the accompanying addendum (together, the "Developer Traffic Study") was requested 8.A. - Page 122