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Attachment A MITIGATION MONITORING CHECKLIST--REDWOOD CITY DOWNTOWN PRECISE PLAN The Redwood City Downtown Precise Plan has been conditionally approved to require implementation of the mitigation measures listed In the second column below. A completed and signed chart will indicate that each mitigation requirement has been cam lied with, and that Ci and state monitoring re uirements have been fulfilled with res ect to Public Resources Code section 21081.8. MONITORING VERIFICATION IDENTIFIED IMPACT RELATED MITIGATION MEASURE Implementation Monitoring and Timing Signatm•e gate EnY Verification Enti Re uirements AESTHETICS AND VISUAL RESOURCES Impact 7-1: Light and Glare Impacts. The Mitigation 7-1. Include in the conditions of individual City Condition of building permit proposed Precise Plan would facilitate approval for any individual future Downtown project approval; field verify increased Downtown development, and in construction project involving building applicants impiementation during particular, would permit construction of new heights of greater than three stories (35 construction. 5-to-12-story (138-foot) maximum height feet), a prohibition on exterior illurninatron of structures in the Downtown area. Such any building element above 35 feet after buildings would include nighttime exterior 10:00 PM, every day; or incorporate this illumination features. These exterior lighting requirement in the Precise Plan. For features would be introduced in a Downtown proposed nets buildings toiler than 35 feet, area That is already highly urbanized with an suggest in the Precise Plan guidelines abundance of existing lights. Nevertheless, some degree of tinting for glazing to reduce exterior lighting features above the such potential glare effects. predominant 3-story elevation of the area, Implementation of these measures would including exterior building illumination and reduce this impact to a less-than- iiluminated signage, could be prominently significant level. visible at night and represent a noticeable visual distraction in views from surrounding nearby and distant vantage points. Additionally, daytime light reflection from the windows of the taller new structures could create glare impacts on surrounding areas and distant views. These effects would represent a potentially significant visual im act. CULTURAL AND HISTORIC RESOURCES Impact 8-1: Disturbance of Archaeological Mitigation S-1. During the City's normal City; individual City During project-speafic Resources. Given that the Precise Plan area project-specific environmental review (Initial project environmental review; is located on alluvial soils, on the margin of Study} process for all future, discretionary, applicants condition of grading permit San Francisco Bay near former wetlands, and public improvement and private issuance; field verify bisected by Redwood Creek and its development projects in the Precise Plan implementation during grading tributaries, there is a high likelihood that area, the City shall determine th[: possible and construction. unrecorded archaeological resources exist in presence of, and the potential impacts of the area. New development facilitated by ttie the action on, archaeological resources. Precise Plan could disturb such existing For projects involving substantial ground unrecorded sensitive archaeological disturbance, the individual project sponsor resources in the Downtown area. This shall be required to contact the tJorthwest possibility represents a potentially information Center (NWIC) of the California si nifrcant im acf. Historical Resources Information System (D ~~ Page 1 U:1My DocumerrtslDownfown Precise PlantCC staN repertstCC 3.12.doc13. f 2.07 Exhit>its'Jt'tachment A mrt monitoring ch?cktist 655.doiA D