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I I I Chapter I - Background, Issues, and Goals I I I I ! I ~. I --~.. _. ...~~ - ........;. -', > '" 1 The Precise Plan Area is bordered by Docktown Marina, the Bair Island Wildlife Preserve and Seaport Center. I been proposed for residential development, and an EIR is being pre- silos on the RMC site at the northern tip of Seaport Boulevard next pared that analyzes a number of development scenarios, including to Pacific Shores. I residential, auto/commercial, and "big box" retail. Bair Island Road is the spine of the Precise Plan Area. Its westerly frontage contains a Area B is bounded by water on the east, west, and north. Across I I-story auto repair and self-storage buildings, surface parking, and Redwood Creek to the east and north is Seaport Center, an office I the 4-story Bayport Marina Plaza, a concrete block office building. park of 2- and 3-story buildings. Mature landscaping and a jogging! This is the tallest occupied structure in the immediate vicinity. Ma- bike path line the creek bank. The Bair Island Wildlife Refuge, part I rina Pointe, a compact development of 46 2-story Mediterranean of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, is style townhouses, is located just north of the Bayport Marina Plaza located across Smith slough to the north and west. PG&E transmis- I office building. sion towers and power lines run north-south across the tip of Bair Island. Marshlands and tidal plains offer unobstructed views to the I Context and Surroundings north and west. The public trails of the Bair Island Wildlife Refuge I and Seaport Center have direct views of the site. The site is also Redwood Creek borders the Precise Plan Area on the east. Across directly visible from Seaport Center's creekside office buildings, I Redwood Creek from Area A is Docktown Marina. The vessels at from the Villas at Bair Island apartments, and from a number of the Docktown are a varied collection of traditional houseboats, sail- Marina Pointe townhouses. i boats, cruisers, floating cabins and barges. Beyond Docktown is the I industrial machinery and the sand and gravel mounds of the Granite US 101 is adjacent to the southern tip of the Precise Plan Area. The Rock company. Farther to the east and northeast, the Port of Red- highway is approximately 160 feet wide, and is slightly elevated I wood City and its related industrial facilities dominate the land- above the site as it crosses Redwood Creek. Across the highway are scape, including large storage tanks and silos, sand and gravel piles, 1- to 4-story office buildings. There are unobstructed views of Area I and loading facilities. The tallest occupied structures are the 5- and A from both directions on US 101. There are prominent views of 6-story glass and steel office buildings of Pacific Shores Center at Area A from the Maple Street and Whipple Avenue overcrossings as I the north end of Seaport Blvd. The tallest structures are the storage well, which are important links between Downtown Redwood City I and the greater Bayfront area. - 5 - Final Plan· June 2004 I