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7A Page 6 Recommendation: Continue #o enforce sign code violations on acomplaint-only basis until and unless additional staffing becomes available. Schools: Now can the City collaborate with school districts to plan for additional students and schools in the Downtown area? How do other cities do it? What examples are (here? Contact the school districts for more information. Response: School districts are responsible for the planning and selection of school sites. Although school districts do not have to comply with local zoning, State law requires extended coordination and communication between cities and local school districts when districts prepare long range plans for school siting. At the same time cities are required to contact school districts ahead of consideration of General Plan Amendments {as was done for the Down#own Precise Plan and the EIR). A Downtown area normally doesn't generate the student demand and need for schools as other areas of cities do. Subsequent studies conducted for the Downtown Precise Plan Environmental Impact Report indicate that the student ratio far K - 8 is smaller for downtowns than the rest of the City. The ratio far Grades 9-12 is slightly higher. See following table: Potential Students per Household K-8 9-12 __ City-wide School District ratios 0.954 0.10 _ Actual Downtown ~ 0 30 0.13 J 1 Ratios Source: Draft Environmental impact Report and Final tnvironmentai impact Keport for the Downtown Precise Plan. Section 10.74 (Public Services, Utilities, and Infrastructure). The "Actual Downtown Ratios° are based on real data from the Franklin Street and City Center Plaza projects. During preparation of the Environmental Impact Report, the City shared this information with the Redwood City School District and they have agreed that the lower ratios are more realistic numbers for high density housing in a downtown setting. The Sequoia Union High School District and the Redwood City School District currently collect school impact fees to offset a project's impact on local facilities. The impact fees, as determined by State law, limit the ability of local entities to impose additional funds upon development projects. The funds are to be used for capital improvements. Since the meeting on March 12~h, staff contacted the Redwood City School District and the Sequoia Union High School District to discuss the siting of schools in the Downtown1. Although there eventually could be a need for a new school (750 K-8 students and 325 9- 'Conversations with Ed Lavigne, Assistant Superintendent, Sequoia Union High School District; Raul Parungao, Chief Business Official, and Jan Christensen, Superintendent, Redwood City School District,