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The necessity to prepare this WSA comes at a time when the City is taking other actions regarding water supply - which was identified by the City Council as one of their top priorities for 2002-2004: · The City recently commissioned updated projections of water demand to 2020. The Redwood City Water Use Forecast 2000 to 2020 (June 20, 2002) was prepared by John Whitcomb, Ph.D. In turn, the Water Use Forecast projections were included in the City's Urban Water Management Plan, Revision No. 1 by amendment through City Council Resolution No. 14459 adopted on July 15, 2002. The projections show a 13% increase in Redwood City water demand by 2020 compared to 2000, including new demand by Marina Shores Village and other planned development. · Concurrently, the City has been planning for a recycled water project. The Planning · Commission recently certified a Mitigated Negative Declaration and the final report of the Water Recycling Feasibility Study for Redwood City, by Kennedy/Jenks Consultants (August 7, 2002) is on the City Council meeting agenda for August 261 2002. This WSA determines that the City of Redwood City does not currently have sufficient water supply to meet the projected water demands of the proposed Marina Shores Village Project together with those of its existing customers as well as the demands of other planned development. However, if the City implements tentative plans for additional supplies in the near future, there should be sufficient water supply to meet projected future demands. As this WSA points out, Redwood City's supply reliability now and into the future is a key factor in this determination. Once the WSA has been prepared, it must be approved by the City Council. It should be noted that the City Council's action in approving a WSA for a proposed development project is not an approval or disapproval of the project itself, in part or in whole. Nor is consideration of this WSA a discussion on the merits of, or obiections to, the proposed development. As of this date, the draft EIR for the proposed csvelopment has yet to be released for public comment, so this determination is very early in the sequence of development review steps. Thus the Council's action should be narrow in its focus on the sufficiency of water supply. The WSA, including the information regarding plans for acquiring additional supplies, shall be included in the environmental document prepared for the project. In the case of Marina Shores Village, it will be included in the CEQA Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR), currently in preparation. At the subsequent stage of project approval/disapproval, the City "shall determine based on the entire record, whether projected water supplies will be sufficient to satisfy the demands of the project, in addition to existing and planned future uses." If the City determines at that point that water supplies will not be sufficient, it must include that determination in its findings for the project. As other large scale projects come forward, Water Supply Assessments will need to be prepared for them as well. And, for large residential projects such as Marina Shores Village, a subsequent water supply analysis will need to be done in connection with the City's approval of a tentative map or development agreement, as required by SB 221 -the other law that also went into effect this year. These documents will describe the situation at the time they are prepared, reflecting progress on City plans for development of recycled water and implementation of conservation programs. 2 of 3