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8A room hotel, 230,000 square feet of landscaping which includes a community park, a Page 2 marina with approximately 70 boat slips, parking areas, and pedestrian plazas and esplanades. The necessity to prepare this WSA comes at a time when the City's recycled water treatment, storage, pumping and distribution system facilities for phase one of the project are near completion. This system will provide a means of meeting water demands that would otherwise have to be met from potable water sources. The recycled water system is scheduled to begin production and delivering recycled water for landscape irrigation in spring 2007. The recycled water project is projected to reduce potable demand by approximately 987 acre feet per year by the year 2010, thereby reducing demand on the San Francisco regional water system. The VvSA determines that the City of Redwood City has sufficient water supply to meet the projected water demands of the proposed Peninsula Park Project together with those of its existing customers as well as the demands of the proposed Downtown Precise Plan. However, during periods of water shortages, the Project would increase the magnitude of cutbacks required by existing water customers and new customers identified in the City's 2005 Urban Water Management Plan. In a single dry year scenario, the Project would increase cutbacks of other customers by an additional 0.74 percent. In a multiple dry year scenario, the project would increase water cutbacks by an additional 0.85 percent. As this WSA points out, Redwood City's supply reliability now and into the future is a key factor in this and future determinations. The WSA will be included in the environmental document prepared for the project. In the case of the Peninsula Park Project, it will be included in the Draft Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Addendum, currently in preparation. Once the WSA has been prepared, it must be approved by the City Council. It should be noted that the City Council's action in approving a WSA for a proposed development project is not an approval or disapproval of the project itself, in part or in whole. Nor is consideration of this WSA a discussion on the merits of, or objections to, the proposed development. As of this date, the Draft EIR Addendum for the proposed development has yet to be released for public comment, so the WSA determination is early in the sequence of development review steps. Thus, the Council's action is only focused on the sufficiency of water supply. At a subsequent stage of project action, the City "shall determine based on the entire record, whether projected water supplies will, or will not be sufficient to satisfy the demands of the project, in addition to existing and planned future uses." If the City determines at that point that water supplies will not be sufficient, it must include that determination in its findings for the project. As other large scale projects come forward, Water Supply Assessments will need to be prepared for them as well. For some of those large projects, a subsequent water supply analysis will need to be prepared in connection with the City's approval of a tentative map or development agreement, as required by SB 221 -the other law that also went into effect in 2001. These documents will describe the situation at the time they are prepared, reflecting progress (Of lack thefeof) on City plans for development of additional water supply and City policy on its water supply reliability. 2 of 3