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09/09/2013 The widening of Woodside Road, inclusive of this intersection, is included in the City's Traffic Impact Fee Program (TIF) project list. However, there is no current design option that is acceptable to both Caltrans and the City of Redwood City; therefore, this improvement may be infeasible. Finding: If a design for widening Woodside Road can be developed which is acceptable to both Caltrans and the City of Redwood City, payment of the Traffic Impact Fee by the applicant would mitigate the proposed project's contribution to the significant cumulative impact to a less-than-significant level. If it is determined that the Woodside Road improvements remain infeasible because the improvements are not consistent with the New Redwood City General Plan and/or Caltrans policy, the cumulative impact would remain signi�cant and unavoidable, as would the proposed project's contribution to that cumulative impact. Facts in Support of Finding: Implementation of Mitigation 7-14 would reduce the projecYs contribution to the cumulative traffic impact at the Woodside Road/Middlefield Road intersection to a less-than-significant level through the project's payment of its City Traffic Impact Fee to add a southbound (Woodside Road) through lane, as well as possible crosswalks and pedestrian signals per the City's General Plan, and other multimodal improvements per Caltrans directives. However, the City and Caltrans have not agreed on a design option for widening Woodside Road, so the impact is currently considered significant and unavoidable. These facts are described in Draft EIR chapter 7 (Transportation, Circulation, and Parking) on pages 7-1 through 7-70, Draft EIR appendix 21.3 (Supplemental Transportation Information), and Final EIR appendix A (Supplemental Traffic Information), which are hereby incorporated by reference. Impact: Impact 7-15: Cumulative With Project Impact on Douglas Avenue/Bay Road Intersection. Under Cumulative With Project conditions during the PM peak hour, the intersection would degrade from LOS C to LOS F, and the proposed project could contribute up to 78.2 seconds of critical delay to the intersection. Mitigation: Mitigation 7-15. To mitigate the significant cumulative impact at the intersection of Douglas Avenue and Bay Road, the intersection would need to be signalized with protected phasing on the eastbound and westbound approaches on Bay Road. In addition to signalization, both the eastbound and westbound approaches would need to be restriped to include a total of one left-turn lane and one shared through/right-turn lane on both the eastbound and westbound approaches. With these improvements, the level of service (LOS) at this intersection would improve to acceptable LOS C during the PM peak hour. ATTY/RES0.2901/STANFORD EIR CERTIFICATION RESO.#15294 REV:09-10-13 VR MUFF#100 Page 37 of 55