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Attachment 4 Memo To: Redwood City Planning Commission From: Tom Passanisi, Principle Planner Date: 8/20/2002 Re: Modifications to the Draft Specific Plan Staff is recommending a few modifications to the Draft Specific Plan based on correspondence received during the EIR public review period. The Draft Specific Plan establishes "linkages" that require implementation of certain plan elements before a certain project can occur. These linkages ara described in Chapter 4 and shown on Table 2 (pg. 4-17). Staff recommends the following modifications to these linkages: 1) FACC Open Space Rehabilitation/Clean-up - This Plan Element is currently required as a precedent element to issuance of the Use Permit for the Church Facility Initial Phase. Due to potentially significant impacts to aquatic resources and wetlands, the City is recommending that this element be deleted from the Plan or, at a minimum, de-linking it from the Church Use Permit. 2) NoAh Tree Screen - This Plan Element is currently required as a precedent element to issuance of the Use Permit for the recycled water tanks, and is proposed to be located along the raised embankment between the biosolids drying beds and the wetland restoration/enhancement area. Due to pOTentially significant impacts to shore birds and visual character of the area, we ara recommending that this element be relocated to immediately adjacent to, and outboard of, the recycled water tanks. Relocation of the north tree screen to this location will provide greater screening of the tanks, SBSA is in agreement with this recommendation. Staff recommends retaining the linkage between the north tree screen and the recycled water tanks. 3) West Tree Screen - This Plan Element is currently proposed as ground cover, Iow hedges, and a tree row along the eastern frontages of Radio Road and the SBSA access road. Staff is recommending that the tree row component of this landscaping be deleted, due to the same concerns expressed about the North Tree Screen (i,e., impacts to shore birds and visual character). 4) Linkage between Recyled Water Tanks and Existinq Service Road. On page 4-17 of the Specific Plan, it states that the recycled storage tank can only be built upon removal of the existing service road. This was included to assure that there would always be access to the water tanks. However, access can and will be provided from the existing treatment plant service roads. Therefore the City, including SBSA, request that the linkage between the recycled water tanks and the removal of the existing service road be deleted