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09/09/2013 Impact: Impact 7-18: Cumulative With Project Impact on Marsh Road/Scott Drive Intersection. Under Cumulative With Project conditions during the PM peak hour, the intersection, would remain at LOS F and the proposed project could contribute up to 14.4 seconds of delay. The intersection of Marsh Road/Scott Drive is located in the City of Menlo Park. Mitigation: Mitigation 7-18. To mitigate the cumulative impact at the intersection of Marsh Road and Scott Drive, the eastbound approach of Scott Drive would need to be restriped to include a total of one shared through/left-turn lane and one right-turn lane. (Marsh Road is considered north-south and Scott Drive is considered east- west.) With these improvements, the level of service (LOS) at this intersection would remain an unacceptable LOS F during the PM peak hour. Although the LOS F still exceeds the City of Menlo Park LOS standard, the LOS under Cumulative With Project conditions would be better than that under Cumulative No Project conditions. Traffic from the proposed project could contribute up to 14.4 seconds to the PM delay at this intersection over Cumulative No Project conditions (see Draft EIR Table 7.16); other Cumulative growth could add up to 74.4 seconds to the delay over Near Term No Project conditions. The proposed project would contribute its fair share to a mitigation fund established to pay for the cost of this improvement (estimated, based on the Draft EIR, to be 16 percent) at the time of issuance of a building permit or, if the City adds the improvements to its Traffic Impact Fee Program (TIF) project list, the proposed project would pay its Traffic Impact Fee in effect at time of payment and issuance of a building permit. Finding: Implementation of Mitigation 7-18 would reduce the project's contribution to this cumulative impact to a less-than-significant level. However, because this improvement would require City of Menlo Park approval, the City of Redwood City cannot ensure the construction of this improvement. Without implementation of the proposed mitigation, the impact would be significant and unavoidable. Facts in Support of Finding: Implementation of Mitigation 7-18 would reduce the project's contribution to the cumulative traffic impact at the Marsh Road/Scott Drive intersection to a less-than-significant level through the project's payment of its fair share (estimated to be 16 percent) to a mitigation fund, or if in effect at building permit issuance, through payment of its City Traffic Impact Fee, to restripe the intersection. However, the City cannot guarantee in advance that the City of Menlo Park will approve the mitigation, 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 7-19: Cumulative With Project Impacts on Freeway Segments. Traffic generated by the proposed project is expected to result in the following freeway segment operational effects: ATTY/RE50.2901/STANFORD EIR CERTIFICATION RESO.#15294 REV:09-10-13 VR MUFF#100 Page 40 of 55