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7A Page 12 {v) The Downtown provides a "park once" environment--people can park once, perhaps in a public parking facility, upon arrival in the Downtown, and can circulate throughout Downtown on foot without parking again. This "park once" environment also allows more potential walk-in customers for Downtown businesses. Recognizing these important factors, the Draft Precise Plan outlines a vision in Section 1.2 (Building the Vision} for making pedestrians a priority by proactively planning for a comfortable, walkable urban environment in the Precise Plan area. The Draft Precise Plan calls for creation of a network of inviting public places and street frontages designed to encourage walking and lingering. The adopted Redwood City Strategic General Plan also includes goal and policy language encouraging creation of pedestrian-oriented environments, including a policy calling for "safe and convenient movement and access in Redwood City...but not at the expense of the environment or the overall quality of life in Redwood City or to the detriment of alternative transportation modes" {Motor Vehicle Transp. Policy MV-2}; and a policy calling for "making walking and bicycling a realistic and more widespread transportation alternative" by creating "an urban environmental that will make walking and bicycling safe, efficient and convenient" (Non-Motorized Transp. Objective NM-1). In this light, the Draft Downtown Precise Plan specifically states, in the event of a conflict between the needs of motor vehicles and pedestrians, "It is City policy that pedestrian comfort, safety, convenience, and enjoyment have priority." The City's commitment to these pedestrian priority objectives has been treated as an overriding consideration in formulating the traffic impact and mitigation findings of this EIR chapter. 5. Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program The Mitigation and Monitoring and Reporting Program {the "MMRP") for the Downtown Precise Plan Project is attached to this resolution as Exhibit B and is incorporated and adopted as par# of this resolution herein, and is included in the conditions of approval for the Project. The MMRP identifies impacts of the Project, corresponding mitigation measures, designation of responsibility for mitigation implementation and the agency responsible for the monitoring action. The Project does not have potentially significant adverse environmental effects which exceed or differ from those of the initial Project, and no additional, feasible mitigation measures are available or necessary far the Project as modified from the Initial Project. A. The mitigation measures set forth in the MMRP are specific and enfiorceable and are capable of being fully implemented by the efforts of AttylResolReso.1883 4307Q7