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05/12/2014 <br /> status, disability, or ethnicity. These community outdoor places may include sidewalks <br /> and streets, parking lots and facilities, paseos and plazas, even privatized rooftops and <br /> courtyards, as well as Courthouse Square and Theatre Way. <br /> Encourage and nurture the emerging renaissance beginning along Main Street. <br /> Promote the re-use of existing buildings by one-of-a-kind local businesses. Provide <br /> these properties with a bit more flexibility in terms of permitted uses to support the <br /> evolving eclectic mixture of uses along the corridor. Retain the essential requirements <br /> for physical configuration that will further the street's identity as historic and pedestrian- <br /> oriented. <br /> General Plan Policies: <br /> Policy BE-3.1: Provide high-quality public streetscapes in all neighborhoods, <br /> particularly in locations where new investment in historic property renovation and infill <br /> development are desired. <br /> Policy BE-17.1: Accommodate outdoor cafes and similar neighborhood-serving uses in <br /> the public right-of-way as a means of promoting pedestrian activity and center vitality. <br /> Ensure that access and noise considerations relative to surrounding uses are <br /> sufficiently addressed. <br /> Policy BE-18.8: Provide the amenities and range of entertainment, shopping, and <br /> cultural offerings that will make Downtown a vital regional and local destination. <br /> Policy BE-18.9: Create a network of attractive, interesting public places and spaces <br /> that encourage walking and lingering through connections to Broadway, adjacent <br /> neighborhoods, transit, and EI Camino Real. <br /> Support the City's Vision that Downtown Redwood City is the heart of our city, the core <br /> center....0utdoor gathering spaces will continue to make Downtown community <br /> oriented; and <br /> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY <br /> OF REDWOOD CITY AS FOLLOWS: <br /> 1. As the lead agency, the City of Redwood City has determined that the <br /> actions proposed in this Resolution are considered Categorically Exempt pursuant to <br /> Section 15304, Class 4 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. <br /> Class 4, Minor Alterations to Land, allows minor temporary uses of land having <br /> negligible or no permanent effects on the environment. <br /> ATTY/RES0.2975/CC SIDEWALK CAFE PILOT PROGRAM RESO.#15340 <br /> REV:05-05-14 JS MUFF#703 <br /> Page 2 of 3 <br />