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Ms. Lindy Chan, Principal Planner City of Redwood City, Planning Services July 13, 2020 Page 10 along El Camino Real and through the surrounding neighborhoods. These safety issues, in turn, will severely inhibit the District's ability to operate its educational programs. The Project's increase in traffic will also subject students and staff to increased levels of vehicle exhaust, fumes, and other pollution. In order to fully understand these issues, the District requested that the Draft EIR include the following: 13. The existing and the anticipated vehicular traffic and student pedestrian movement patterns to and from school sites, including movement patterns to and from Sequoia High School, and including consideration of bus routes. 14. The impact(s) of increased vehicular movement and volumes caused by the Project, including but not limited to potential conflicts with school pedestrian movement, school transportation, and busing activities to and from Sequoia High School. 15. The estimated travel demand and trip generation, trip distribution and trip assignment by including consideration of school sites and home -to -school travel. 16. The cumulative impacts on schools and the community in general resulting from increased vehicular movement and volumes expected from additional development already approved or pending. 17. The direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts on the circulation and traffic patterns in the community as a result of traffic generated by the transportation needs of students to and from the Project and schools throughout the District during the Project build -out. 18. The impacts on the routes and safety of students traveling to school by vehicle, bus, walking, and bicycles. The Draft EIR fails to analyze a_y of the above categories of information. The Draft EIR does not specifically discuss any vehicular or pedestrian movement patterns to and from Sequoia High School, and how the proposed Project's addition of thousands of daily trips will impact the safety and convenience of those students, families, and staff traveling to and from Sequoia High School. Nor does the Draft EIR analyze how the addition of thousands of new vehicles to El Camino Real and the surrounding streets, which are already severely impacted by traffic, could impact the District's ability to promote its safe routes to school program, and/or comply with Title 5 requirements to locate its school sites within a proposed attendance area that encourages student walking and avoids extensive bussing. (5 Cal. Code Regs. § 14010(1).) In fact, the Draft EIR fails to mention the District and Sequoia High School at all. There is, therefore, no way for the lead agency or the public to assess whether the Project will pose a traffic impact related to the District's provision of public services.