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EXHIBIT A FINDINGS ON THE REDWOOD CITY SEQUOIA HOSPITAL CAMPUS/PRECISE PLAN FEIR The following findings identify potential adverse environmental impacts and mitigation measures and state related determinations of the City of Redwood City concerning proposed adoption of the Sequoia Hospital Campus/Precise Plan. These findings are made with reference to the draft and final Environmental Impact Report for the Redwood City Downtown Precise Plan Project certified by the Redwood City Planning Commission on February 6, 2007 (the "FEIR") and the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Downtown Precise Plan Project and related Mitigation Monitoring Checklist (together, the "MMRP") approved concurrently with these findings. To avoid repetition and an unnecessarily lengthy document, these findings do not restate in full detail the analysis of impacts or descriptions of mitigation measures in the FEIR and MMRP, but instead identify the FEIR designation of the impacts discussed and the MMRP designations of mitigation measures, so that further information on those impacts and mitigation measures is incorporated by reference and available to any reader. Copies of the FEIR and MMRP are available in the office of the City Clerk. A. Transportation Impacts Potential Impact TRAN-1 : Redevelopment of the Sequoia Hospital campus under the proposed Precise Plan would impact two signalized intersections (Alameda de Las Pulgas/Edgewood Road and El Camino Real/Whipple Avenue) and one unsignalized intersection (1-280 Northbound ramp/Edgewood Road) during one or more of the peak hour periods. Mitigation TRAN-1.1: Alameda de las Pulqas and Edqewood Drive: The project sponsor shall install an Emergency Vehicle Pre-Emption (EVP) at this intersection to avoid delays for emergency vehicle response (i.e., Code 3 [lights and sirens] police, fire service, and ambulance). Signal pre-emption systems for emergency vehicles use sensors to detect an approaching emergency vehicle and provide a green signal to the vehicle. The mitigation required to reduce the average delay to less than significant during both peak periods is to provide an additional left-turn lane (resulting in a total of two left-turn lanes) on the northbound approach and provide an eastbound right-turn overlap phase. The implementation of this mitigation would likely require right-of-way acquisition to construct a receiving lane on the west leg for the additional northbound left-turn lane. The implementation of the eastbound right-turn overlap would also most likely require right-of-way acquisition. Finding: The City Council of the City of Redwood City finds this impact to be significant and unavoidable. It is the City's goal to maintain the neighborhood character in the area around Alameda de las Pulgas and Edgewood Drive. The improvements required to expand the intersection capacity (additional turning lanes) would ultimately Atty/Reso/Reso.1683 030707