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Response to Draft Environmental Impact Report Harbor View Development Project, Redwood City CA February 7, 2019 Page 3 of 7 Mitigation Measure HAZ-Ib: Prior to the issuance of a grading permit, the Project applicant shall record a Land Use Covenant (LUC), in a form approved by the City, that requires that the SMP to be followed during future earthwork activities during and post - development. The LUC shall include conditional language describing when implementation of the SMP will be required for earthwork activities beneath either hardscaped areas or a beneath a specified thickness of clean fill or marker fabric required for non-hardscaped areas. The LUC shall also include language to prohibit the use of groundwater beneath the Project site. Currently, the DEIR sets up a condition where the City will not allow for a grading permit until the DTSC approves the LUC. In addition, the DTSC will not approve the Draft RAW until the DEIR has been accepted by the City (because the DTSC needs to conduct a formal CEQA exemption). As requested by the DTSC and stated in the revised Draft RAW (Path Forward 2018), the LUC will be recorded with the County of San Mateo after the RAW has been implemented and following submittal of the Removal Action Completion Report (RACR) that will be prepared for the Site. As described in the RAW, implementation of the RAW includes completion of construction of the proposed buildings, hardscape, and landscaped areas to act as a cap protecting future inhabitants from coming in to contact with the subsurface contaminants. Based on this requirement, the DTSC will not record the LUC prior to implementation of the RAW that includes construction of the proposed Development. Based on this information, Path Forward recommends that Mitigation Measure HAZ-1b be modified accordingly. Specifically, this should remove the requirement to obtain the LUC prior to obtaining the grading permit because this is not feasible or practical. On -Site Public Amenities (Sections 5.3 and 5.5.6) As noted in Section 4.7 and Table 2-2 of the DEIR, a proposed alternative use includes incorporating an on -Site child day care center and an adult soccer field as part of the Development. As specified in the DEIR, 'The On-site Public Amenities Alternative responds to comments received during scoping of this EIR. Neither the City nor the Project applicant has put forth a proposal for development of a sports field facility on the proposed Project site. The City developed the following theoretical scenario that would accommodate one to four adult soccer fields on one to four acres of the Project site. As shown in Table 5-1, this alternative would develop three of the four office buildings proposed with the Project, and the amenities building would introduce ancillary child care for Project employees. Total floor area would be approximately 26 percent less than the proposed Project (882 ksf compared to 1.18 msf). The basic access and configuration of development on the site would otherwise be the some as with the proposed Project, and given the reduced development, this alternative assumes that the taller of the two parking structures (Parking Structure A on the west edge of the site) would be reduced from five to three Project No.: 102-102-100 PATH ORWARD