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Legend. Applicant = project applicant, City = City of Redwood City Page 6 May 18, 2004 WP9.016451MMCHT.645 MOi.., ORING VERIFIC#, ION IDENTIFIED IMPACT RELATED MITIGATION MEASURE Impl. Type of Impl. Monitoring and Timing Signature Date (CONDITION OF APPROVAL) Entity Action Verification Entity Requirements therefore represent a significant adverse visual impact. Impact 5 -2: Visual Impacts on Views and Mitigation 5 -2. Implement one of the Applicant/ Redesign project to City Prior to Precise Vistas and on the Character of the following two alternative mitigations: City incorporate 50 -foot Plan adoption Surrounding Area. Current development maximum building and vegetation form a base visual plane that is Mitigation Alternative 5 -2 -1: Reduce heights, building approximately 50 feet in height and merges project building heights to screening, with the horizon as seen from surrounding approximately 50 feet to merge with the additional setbacks, areas. Proposed project buildings would visual base plane of the project site. At and acceptable extend significantly above this plane, this height, buildings would not obstruct angle of enclosure; impacting the visual quality of the Bayfront existing views of the sky and or incorporate Area. The proposed project, as presented by surrounding hills to a greater degree design standards the applicant for review in this EIR, would than existing buildings and vegetation. and guidelines into include 17 residential towers and one The buildings may be screened by Precise Plan hotel /office tower, with a maximum building perimeter trees, blending the project requiring City height of 236 feet, plus a number of mid -rise more sensitively into the natural adoption. residential and two-story townhouses and Bayfront surroundings. (A similar retail buildings. The proposed residential condition currently exists along the towers would extend up to approximately 186 Redwood Creek frontage of Seaport feet above the 50 -toot base plane. The mid- Center.) Also, set back project rise elements of the project extend buildings from adjacent waterways and approximately 20 to 40 feet above the plane. public trails to retain a more expansive A portion of sky and distant views would be open space character. The angle of blocked, shifting the focus of views towards enclosure created by new buildings the project development. generally should not exceed the angle created by existing trees and buildings As a result, the proposed project would have a which line Redwood Creek and substantial adverse effect on surrounding and Steinberger Slough. Implementation of distant (Redwood City hillside) views, scenic these measures would reduce this vistas, and view corridors. The project would impact (Visual Impacts on Views and substantially alter the existing visual character Vistas and on the Character of the of the surrounding area, which is currently Surrounding Area) to a less -than- characterized by views of a generally uniform, significant level. expansive urban and bay landscape. The project would diminish the quality of these OR views from numerous vantage points, including adjacent residential, commercial, Mitigation Alternative 5 -2 -2: Implement and recreational areas, Highway 101, the Mitigation Alternative 5 -1 -2 (adoption of Whipple Avenue and Maple Street a Precise Plan). Implementation of overpasses, and the western hills. As a this measure would reduce the degree result, the project would have a significant of project impacts on views and vistas visual impact on the character of the and on the character of the surrounding surrounding area. area, but not to a less- than- significant Legend. Applicant = project applicant, City = City of Redwood City Page 6 May 18, 2004 WP9.016451MMCHT.645