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IX. UTILITIES AND SERVICES <br />A. Water Supply <br />Potential Impact: The Water Supply Assessment required by SB <br />610 shows Redwood City would not have sufficient water supply to meet the <br />projected future demands of the proposed Project or the Higher Occupancy <br />Scenario. (Significant) <br />Mitigation: The following mitigation measures, as set forth in the <br />FEIR, are hereby adopted and will be implemented as provided in the Mitigation <br />Monitoring Program: <br />Mitigation Measures UT -1.1 and UT -1.2 <br />Finding: Mitigation Measures UT -1.1 and UT -1.2 are feasible and <br />together could reduce the significant water supply shortage to a less -than- <br />significant effect if the recycled water program contemplated in UT -1.1, and <br />which was approved by this Council on August 11, 2003 is implemented and <br />operational. If the recycled water program tentatively contemplated in UT -1.1 is <br />not implemented by the City and Kaiser does not obtain an alternative water <br />supply from a third -party water supplier, the Project would have a significant and <br />unavoidable impact on water supply. There is no other feasible mitigation <br />measure that would avoid or substantially lessen the impact of the Project on <br />water supply. <br />The projected average daily water demand for the proposed Project <br />at buildout, calculated based on City standards, is 0.209 mgd (234 AFN), per the <br />revised July 3, 2003 study which adjusts and updates the initial estimates shown <br />in the DEIR and WSA, absent mitigation measures. The projected average <br />demand, absent mitigation measures, is about 3 times the current average <br />demand, which is .0665 mgd (74.58 AFN). The Project - related increase in water <br />demand, absent mitigation measures, would be approximately 0.143 mgd (159.7 <br />AFN). <br />The projected demand is based on a study of water demand at <br />comparable facilities. The results of the study are summarized in the Addendum <br />to a City of Redwood City Final Environmental Impact Report for the Kaiser <br />Permanente Redwood City Medical Center Master Plan dated June 18, 2003. <br />Redwood City currently exceeds its allotment for water supply by <br />approximately 927 AFN. Because Redwood City already exceeds its allotment <br />for water supply, any increase in water demand would exacerbate the existing <br />shortfall. <br />In conjunction with the South Bayside System Authority, the City <br />has adopted plans for a recycled water treatment, storage, pumping and <br />distribution system that would be used for landscape irrigation and other <br />