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<br />One of the key tasks the City Council requested within this Plan is an “audit” of existing <br />land uses. In other words, how accurately did our traffic projections predict automobile <br />trips with certain developments/land uses? The “audit” results can be compared to data <br />in environmental documents. <br />The following data points were collected by our consultants and include vehicle trips as <br />well as those made by non-vehicle modes (e.g. walking, biking). The general findings <br />were (see Figure 3): <br />· Fewer people are driving alone to and from land uses located Downtown than to <br />locations outside of Downtown <br />· Residential uses have higher shares of people driving alone than office uses <br />· Actual trip generation rates for Downtown office land uses were 44% lower than <br />the rates used in the Downtown Precise Plan (DTPP) EIR and are 55% lower <br />than the relevant trip generation rates from the Institute of Transportation <br />Engineers (ITE) <br />· Actual trip generation rates for Downtown multifamily residential land uses were <br />45% lower than the relevant trip generation rates from ITE in the PM peak hour <br />and 26% lower than those used in the DTPP EIR <br />· Actual trip generation rates for single family homes was the only case in which <br />the number of trips generated in Redwood City were (55%) higher than ITE rates <br /> <br />Figure 3: Mode Split for Redwood City Land Uses <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />These findings suggest that assumptions used in recent planning documents have been <br />conservative and that they have not underestimated the number of vehicle trips <br />generated by development projects. More details are included in Chapter 2 and <br />Appendix A of the report. <br />9.A - Page 6