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The summary will also note areas of known controversy and an assessment of the alternatives reviewed and their associated impacts. The summary will also include identification of the environmentally superior alternative and the rationale for its selection as such. Subtask 2.3.2. Introduction, Project Description and Environmental Setting. The EIR will provide introductory sections that lay the groundwork for and summarize the substantive analysis to follow. The introduction will describe the purpose and legal authority of the study, the relationship of the SEIR to the General Plan Final EIR, and will provide a discussion of lead, responsible and trustee agencies. The Project Description section will consist of the Project Description that was prepared in conjunction with Subtask 2.1. The environmental setting will provide a general description of the urban geographic character of the City of Redwood City and the immediate project area vicinity at the time of NOP distribution. The setting will be based on existing data sources, including the City's General Plan and ordinances, and other relevant environmental documents prepared during recent years, supplemented with observations during a site reconnaissance. Subtask 2.3.3. Environmental Impact Analysis. The main body of the EIR will consist of the assessment of potential environmental impact analysis of the proposed project. The setting portion of each impact section will describe the applicable environmental conditions of the project area, and will reference recent technical studies for the project area whenever possible. If existing data does not allow definitive quantification, reasonable assumptions will be used to qualitatively forecast potential impacts. Cumulative impacts will be discussed within this analysis, but at a lesser level of detail than the General Plan impacts. Mitigation measures may include a range of design measures and programs. All mitigation measures will be presented in wording that can be directly applied to conditions of approval and will include monitoring requirements. Some mitigation measures may be implemented or confirmed at the time individual development permit applications are submitted for individual lots and development projects within the project area. The impact analysis section will include a statement of the significance thresholds that were used to determine if an impact would have the potential to result in a significant environmental effect. Impacts of the proposed project when compared to existing conditions in the area will be identified, as will cumulative impacts resultingfrom regional growth. Conditions where the proposed mitigation measures would not reduce the identified impacts to a less than significant level will be clearly identified. Secondary impacts of mitigation measures will also be discussed. The section will describe the level of significance after mitigation. This will be a brief statement noting where any significant impacts would remain after mitigation measures are applied. This section will also note whether Impacts related to each issue are significant and unavoidable, significant but mitigable, less than significant, or beneficial. Subtask 2.3.4 -Alternatives. This section will be prepared in accordance with the requirements of the CEPA Guidelines Section 15126(f). The purpose of this section will be to promote informed decision-making and to evaluate a reasonable range of project alternatives, with an emphasis on alternatives capable of reducing significant impacts identified in the environmental analysis. The alternatives studied will be those developed in Task 2.2. This section will identify the "environmentally superior alternative." If the No Project Alternative is determined to be environmentally superior, the EIR will identify the environmentally superior alternative among the remaining scenarios. REV: 11-1.3-18 PR Page 11 of 15 ATTY/AGR.2018.263/Rincon Consultants, Inc.