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Task C.3 - Develop Administrative Draft Shade and Shadow Study AECOM in house technical specialists will prepare the Shade and Shadow Study. The study will contain the following elements: • Brief project description, excerpted from the CEQA project description developed in Task 1 of the current proposed scope of work. • Existing Setting: will describe the data gathered in Task C.2. It will describe the location of sensitive uses as outlined in the City's General Plan, in addition to the overall project setting, including the existing shade and shadow environment. The existing setting section will also describe current City policies and regulations as they relate to shade and shadow impacts. • Project impacts: will describe the project's potential impacts on shade -sensitive uses. The analysis will be supported by up to nine sun/shade diagrams representing morning, noon, and afternoon shadows during the months of March, June, and December. In coordination with the City, AECOM will define criteria to determine whether there would be substantial shadow impacts on nearby uses. Mitigation Measure 4.1-2 in the City's General Plan EIR applies to new development in the MUC land use designation (applicable to project parcels A and B), and indicates that the following impacts would normally be considered significant: - Introduction of landscape that would now or in the future cast substantial shadows on existing solar collectors - Casting of shadows that substantially impair the beneficial use of shadow - sensitive public open space - Casting of shadows that materially impair the historic significance of an historic resource - Casting of shadows from parcels within a major transportation corridor onto adjacent Low, Medium, Medium -High and High Density residential parcels that substantially impair the beneficial use of the Low Density or Medium Density residential parcels. • Study Recommendations: based on the thresholds developed, AECOM will suggest recommendations, if necessary, to reduce potential shade and shadow impacts. Since the project is consistent with the criteria outlined in SB 743 for a transit priority area, project aesthetic impacts, including shade and shadow, would not be considered significant. Nonetheless, AECOM's in house technical specialists will work with the City to offer feasible mitigation measures, such as alteration of building massing, height, and setbacks, to address substantial shadow effects. Sun and Page 34 of 37 AlTY/AGR/2018.270/AECOM PSA REV: 12-07-18 PR