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6.3.B. - Page 1 REPORT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager September 10, 2018 SUBJECT Expand the Residential Parking Permit Area "S" to Arch Street and Lexington Avenue RECOMMENDATION Adopt a resolution to expand the existing Residential Permit Parking (RPP) Area "S" in the Mt. Carmel neighborhood, to include Arch Street and Lexington Avenue, and find that the proposed action is exempt from the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under CEQA Guidelines Sections 15303 (New Construction and Small Structures) and 15305 (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limitations) BACKGROUND Redwood City's Residential Permit Parking (RPP) program, established in 1985, is codified in Chapter 20, Article 7, Division 11 of the Municipal Code. In Redwood City ("City"), the adopted RPP program was designed to discourage long-term parking by people who do not live in the residential neighborhood, and generally limit the number of resident vehicles parked on the street during daytime hours. The City currently has four RPP areas: • Area A located in the Stambaugh -Heller Neighborhood southeast of Downtown • Area B located in the Friendly Acres Neighborhood • Area C which surrounds Sequoia Hospital • Area S which surrounds Sequoia High School The City received a petition requesting that the existing Area "S" RPP program surrounding Sequoia High School be expanded to two additional streets in the Mt. Carmel Neighborhood, Arch Street and Lexington Avenue. The petition was received in March 2018 from residents of both streets. The primary reasons stated for requesting the RPP area is that all the surrounding streets already have the permit program implemented. For this reason long term parkers from the High School and commuters going to the train station park on Lexington Avenue. For Arch Street, the needs are a