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Ms. Lindy Chan, Principal Planner City of Redwood City, Planning Services July 13, 2020 Page 6 6. Description of any impacts on curriculum as a result of anticipated population growth. 7. Cost of providing capital facilities to accommodate students on a per -student basis, by the District. 8. Expected shortfall or excess between the estimated development fees to be generated by the Project and the cost for provision of capital facilities. 9. An assessment of the District's present and projected capital facility, operations, maintenance, and personnel costs. 10. An assessment of financing and funding sources available to the District, including but not limited to those mitigation measures set forth in Section 65996 of the Government Code. 11. Any expected fiscal impacts on the District, including an assessment of projected cost of land acquisition, school construction, and other facilities needs. 12. An assessment of cumulative impacts on schools resulting from additional development already approved or pending. Without consideration of the above, the Draft EIR fails as an informational document. Finally, both the Initial Study and the Draft EIR fail to analyze adequately cumulative public services impacts on the District due to extensive new development within District boundaries. EIRs must discuss cumulative impacts of a project when the project's effects on the environment, viewed in conjunction with impacts of other past, present, or reasonably foreseeable future projects, is cumulatively considerable. (CEQA Guidelines § 15130(a); see, San Joaquin Raptor/Wildlife Rescue Center v. County ofStanislaus (1994) 27 CA4th 713, 720, finding that piecemeal approval of several projects with related impacts could lead to severe environmental harm.) The purpose of the cumulative impacts analysis is to avoid considering projects in a vacuum, because failure to consider cumulative harm may risk environmental disaster. (Whitman v. Board of Supervisors (1979) 88 CA3d 397, 408.) As noted in the District's 2018 SFJS, the District anticipates that there are an estimated 5,545 residential units recently approved, in progress, or under construction within District boundaries. (SFJS at 9.) This new development, which includes numerous other development projects on El Camino Real, is anticipated to generate over a thousand new students to the District. (SFJA at Appendix E.) The District is therefore predicted to continue to exceed its facilities capacity through 2022/2023. (SFJS at 1.) The District anticipates both that the combined impact of the Project and all other residential development and commercial development projects in District boundaries and the Project neighborhood will significantly impact the District's ability to provide its public service in accordance with established performance objectives, and that the Project's incremental effect is cumulatively considerable. (CEQA Guidelines § 15130(a).)