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FINDINGS RELATING TO THE ADOPTION OF THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PERMIT FOR THE ELECTRONIC ARTS H~ADQUARTERS MASTER PLAN, REDWOOD PENINSULA, CITY OF REDWOOD CITY Plan of the City of Redwood City. The '~Findings of Consistency Between the Electromc Arts Master Plan Project and the General Plan of the City of Redwood City" are hereby incorporated incorporated by reference. Finding (2): . The Electronic Arts Headquarters Master Plan project ("Project") conforms to the goals and purposes of the PDP regulations. The purposes of the PDP process include encouraging flexibility of design and development of land in such a manner as to promote its most appropriate use; encouraging the development of innovative projects which incorporate the highest quality architectural solutions, building materials and landscaping concepts; and promoting the most functional and aesthetic relationships between building structures, signs, open space and parking areas. The PDP is necessary in order to enable the Project applicant to develop the site as an informal campus office environment through the placement and massing of buildings and landscaping. This will attract high-quality employers to the City, provide a pleasant work environment and minimize impacts on adjacent residential properties. It is an innovative development consistent with the purposes of the PDP code. The landscaping concepts are exceptionally functional and aesthetic. The Project's landscape plan will ensure that shared public pedestrian walkways, recreational uses and public open spaces are provided. For example, the design of the Project will encourage pedestrian use and diminish the need for automobile trips by establishing common area walkways. These walkways link the larger open spaces to each other, as well as linking the campus to surrounding amenities. Walkways extend the existing Redwood Shores pathway systems to all major crosswalks, to all new buildings, to buildings outside the site boundaries, to the proposed shopping center, to the Pacific Athletic Club, to public paths that lead to Redwood Shores Lagoon, and to the Hotel Sofitel. Special care has been taken to minimize the visual impact of both garages and surface lots to the Redwood Shores Parkway. This was accomplished by setting the parking structures well within the campus, by landscaping the lots, and by surrounding the roadway edge of the campus with an informal arrangement of trees. E×HIEIII C EAPDFPI DOC