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1. t'f ' � naa�a� nmv�o.va btixea-uee xea;vcinem. rroject — CONCLUSIONS: THE ENVIRONMENTAL IlViPACTS OF THE __ REVISED PROJECT WTLL BE COMPARABLE TO THE IMPACTS OF THE APPROVED PROJECT . The City finds that none of the conditions deacn'bed 'm CEQA Guidelmes § 15162 requiring prepustion of a subsequent EIlt have occurted. Specifically, the City has deksmined the following. Chanee in the Proiect The revised downWwn mixed-use retaiUcmema project proposes development that is generally consistcnt in type with, but smalla in scale than, the project evaluated 'm the previously-certified EIIt and approved by the City of Redwood City. The revised project eliminates a 108,400-net-square-foot office building and between 106 and 481 net new parldng spaces from the development prugam The revised project would also require the t+elocation of the culvert tUat crosses Block 1. The elimination of office space from the project development progi�am would reduce both �affic impacts of the project d�mng the evening peak hour and parldng demand on weekdays. The provision of parking undemeath the building on Block 1 with some additional spaces on Block 2, :atfier than solely on Blcek 2, would result in a shift in the location of one paridng entry to a major thoroughfare. • In general, all intersections neazest the projxt site would operate at the sa� or better levels of ser- vice with the revised project. The only exception to this general statement is that the inursection of Middlefield Road and Winslow Street would operate at LOS B(instead of LOS A) with the revised project with 315 parlang spaces. • The effects of the reduced parldng supply on overall project parldng impacts would depend on which of the three revised project altemarives is selected. Evrn in the worst case, the increased parldng deficit would be a ct�ange in the magnitude, but not type, of impact, and that increase wuld be sarisfactorily addressed by im�plemrntarion of mitigation measures identified in the previously- certified EIR. Chan�es in Circumstances The most significant change in circumstances identificd in this Addendum is an increase in the downtown parking supply. This change trnds to reduce, rather than increase, the severity of the projecYs impacts on parking. Additional changes in circumstances aze (1) a nduction in the demand for pazldng in the downtown area and, at the same time, (2) an increase in pazldng demand on evenings with evrnts at the Fox Theater (and the proposed Little Fox, if approved). The first change, which also tends to reduce the severity of the projecYs impacts on pazldng, is likely to be temporary, but of uncertain duration. The second change tends to increase pazking demand on nighu with performances at the Fox (and the Little Fo�c, if approved). New Information New information that has become available since the publication and certification of the original EIlt concems the downtown pazldng supply and the pazldng demand characteristics of the revised projxt. - This information indicates an increase in the downWwn parlang supply (this is the changed circumstance noted above), a slight shift in the time-of-day parldng demand chazacteristics of cinema-goers, and the 23