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7A <br />Page 34 <br />peak hour. in addition, this mitigation would require acquisition of right-of-way <br />from commercial frontage (including a gas station) and is therefore not <br />considered feasible by the City. This impact therefore would be significant and <br />unavoidable. <br />or <br />Mitigation 9-19(b). As a feasible option, add a second westbound left-turn <br />lane on Whipple Avenue. This modification would reduce the level of impact, but <br />not to aless-than-significant level {i.e., would not mitigate either the AM or the <br />PM peak hour impact}. Therefore, although reduced, this impact would remain <br />significant and unavoidable. <br />Findings: This City Council of the City of Redwood City finds this impact <br />to be significant and unavoidable. The mitigation action proposed by 9-19(a) is <br />infeasible because it would require acquisition of right-of-way from commercial <br />frontage. Since mitigation action 9-19(b} would not lessen the impact to a less- <br />than-significant level, the City Council does not choose to implement this <br />mitigation option. This impact is overridden by project benefits as set forth in the <br />statement of overriding considerations. <br />Impact 9-20: Project Contribution to Cumulative Impacts at the <br />Veterans BoulevardlBrewster Avenue Intersection. During the PM peak hour, <br />project generated traffic would reduce operation to LOS F and increase delay by <br />five (5) seconds or more at this intersection. This effect would represent a <br />significant impacf (see criteria for "Intersection Impacts," in subsection 9.4.1, <br />"Significance Criteria," above.) <br />Mitigation 9-20(a). Restripe eastbound Brewster Avenue to one (eft-turn <br />lane and one shared left-through-right turn lane. Signal operations would need to <br />be changed to allow for split phasing for the eastbound/westbound Brewster <br />approaches. These improvements would reduce this impact, but not to a less- <br />than-significant level (i.e., would not fulEy mitigate either the AM or PM peak hour <br />impacts). Therefore, this impact would be significant and unavoidable. <br />or <br />Mi#igation 9-20(b). Add a second eastbound left-turn lane on Brewster <br />Avenue. Implementation of this measure would improve PM peak hour <br />operations to LOS D, resulting in aless-fhan-significant impact. <br />or <br />Because: (a} Mifigafion 9-20(a) would result in pedestrians on each side of <br />Brewster receiving a walk signal to cross Veterans Boulevard at separate times <br />during the signal cycle, instead of the overlapping walk signal phases that now <br />Atty/ResalReso.1683 ~ 7 <br />0307D7 <br />