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12/16/2019 • Prior to issuance of site or construction permits related directly to the Veterans Memorial Building, proposed plans for the rehabilitation of those buildings would be submitted to the Redwood City Community Development Department for review and approval. Any exterior alterations would be conducted in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation and undertaken with the assistance of a historic preservation architect meeting the Secretary of the Interior's Standards Professional Qualifications Standards. The historic preservation architect shall regularly evaluate the ongoing renovation to ensure it continues to satisfy the Standards. The historic preservation architect would submit status reports to the Redwood City Community Development Department according to a schedule agreed upon prior to commencement of the work. • Prior to issuance of site or construction permits, proposed plans for new construction on site shall be submitted to the Redwood City Community Development Department for review and approval. Said permits shall only be issued after it has been confirmed that the design of the new construction is in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior's Rehabilitation Standard 9 and, in particular, is compatible with the design of the Veterans Memorial Building. This alternative would preserve the building's primary public facades, as well as the open space between those facades and Madison Avenue and St. Francis Street. Under this alternative, it is assumed that little to no modifications of the building's exterior features would be made. This project alternative would avoid the project's significant and unavoidable impact to a historic resource. Comparison to the Project: The Preservation Alternative would avoid the project's significant and unavoidable cultural resources and recreation impacts from demolishing a historic resource (the existing senior center). This alternative would modify the historic resource while preserving the preserving the historic portions of the resource. For this reason, this alternative would result in a less than significant impact to the historic resource. This alternative would result in the same or similar impacts to all other environmental resources as the proposed project. Finding. The Preservation Alternative would avoid the project's significant and unavoidable impacts related to demolishing a historic resource and result in the same or similar impacts to all other environmental resources as the proposed project. However, this alterative does not meet all of the project's objectives, including reducing escalating maintenance costs (objective 1) as the preservation alternative building would not be able to be constructed with the same energy efficient measures as the proposed building (net zero ready and LEED Platinum) and could not provide a state-of-the-art communityfacility with multiple recreational opportunities (objective 6). Additionally, throughout the community outreach process, it was identified by the community that a new facility would be preferred to produce a multi -generation state-of-the-art facility. For these reasons, the Preservation Alternative is hereby rejected. Sequoia YMCA Site Redevelopment Alternative Description: Under the Sequoia YMCA Site Redevelopment Alternative, the proposed VMSC would be constructed as proposed on the project site, the proposed traffic calming measures would be constructed as proposed, and the proposed YMCA would be constructed where the existing Sequoia YMCA is currently at Palm Park. Comparison to the Project: The Sequoia YMCA Site Redevelopment Alternative would avoid the project's significant and unavoidable impacts related to demolishing a historic resource. This alternative would result in no impact to the historic resource. This alternative would result in a similar amount of total construction and demolition on two sites (the project site and the existing Sequoia YMCA site), therefore, this alternative would result in similar impacts to all other environmental resources as the proposed project. ATTY/RESO.0124/CC RESO RECOMMENDING CEQA CERTIFICATION —YMCA RESO. NO. 15813 REV: 12-12-191Y MUFF NO. 601 Page 23 of 44