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7A Page 61 Response to Comments in FEIR Letter B 1. The explanation of how trip generation correlates with fuel sales was described at the June 19. 2007 Planning Commission hearing and is further detailed in the staff response to the appeal letter. See Attachment 2 to this staff report. 2. As discussed in the Master Response to Traffic Comments in the Final EIR (beginning on page 3-5). the trip generation component of the traffic impact study prepared for the Draft EIR is based on actual trip generation observed by licensed traffic engineers at other Costco gas stations throughout California. Traffic engineers experienced with the analysis of trip generation rates associated with high gas sales volume stations have determined that this methodology is the most accurate. City staff supports this methodology because it is based on actual observations and not estimates. Members of the public have also specifically requested that the traffic study be based on observed trip generation associated with the fueling centers at other Costco locations. The trips suggested in the comment are not consistent with the traffic analysis and actual observations. The comment does not take into account that the Redwood City Cost co site is associated with an existing customer base, so that many of the existing customer trips will also represent internal capture trips to the proposed gas station. These trips do not represent new traffic. 3. The explanation of how trip generation correlates with fuel sales was described at the June 19. 2007 Planning Commission hearing and is further detailed in the staff response to the appeal letter. See Attachment 2 to this staff report. 4. Issues regarding potential cut-through traffic from the Stanford Outpatient Center Project are discussed in the staff response to the appeal letter. See Attachment 2 to this staff report.