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7.D. - Page 27 of 126 Project Description ■ As shown in Table 1, the proposed project would alter the FAR, density, and height requirements and would provide intensity bonuses for projects that include certain qualifying community benefits. These would include, but are not limited to, child care facilities, publicly accessible open space, shared/ connected parking, affordable housing, community facilities or services, live/work units and or new streets or pathways. Proposed changes to the MULW zoning district standards and the associated General Plan amendments would increase the maximum allowable dwelling units from 20 per acre to 40 per acre for projects that offer qualifying community benefits. Table 2 shows that this change would increase the allowed maximum dwelling units from 450 (existing allowed maximum) to 900 (proposed allowed maximum), an increase of 450 dwelling units. Furthermore, the proposed changes to the development standards would allow for residential -only uses where existing policy permits only commercial and mixed -uses. As a result, the proposed project could increase the population of Redwood City. Based on the existing average household size of 2.82 people per household (California Department of Finance 2018), the proposed project could increase the City's population by 1,269 residents. The General Plan estimated a 2030 population of 92,400 residents. The project would result in a 1.4 percent increase above this estimate by the year 2030. Changes to commercial square footage are not analyzed in this addendum because buildout of the proposed zoning amendment would lead to the same commercial use square footage permitted under the existing zoning. Photographs of portions of existing areas zoned MULW and MULW-S as well as some of the surrounding areas are shown in Figure 4a through Figure 4e. 2.2 Project Objectives The proposed project is intended to implement the district vision and purposes, including increased flexibility in land uses, promotion of live/work units, improvement of the jobs/housing balance, and simplification of the zoning. This amendment is also an implementation action of the EI Camino Real Corridor Plan, adopted in December of 2017. Since the proposed project would allow uses that may exceed the height or density analyzed previously, this addendum has been prepared to determine whether the impacts associated with such additional uses were adequately evaluated in the Final EIR and the 2013 Addendum. Addendum to the Final Environmental Impact Report 628