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Ms. Lindy Chan, Principal Planner City of Redwood City, Planning Services July 13, 2020 Page 13 iii. Air Quality The City analyzes air quality impacts posed by construction and operation of the Project. The City further recognizes that the proposed Project would pose a significant environmental impact if it would expose sensitive receptors, including schools, to substantial pollutant concentrations. The Draft EIR does not, however, analyze potential air quality impacts as they pertain to the District's Sequoia High School. Air quality impacts on the District, its students, and staff have the potential to disrupt classes, prevent students from being outside during construction, and prevent students from traveling to and from Sequoia High School during construction. The Draft EIR was, therefore, required to analyze the following: 20. The direct and indirect air quality impacts of the Project on the District's Sequoia High School, including District students, families, and staff walking to and from Sequoia High School. 21. The cumulative air quality impacts on schools and the community in general resulting from increased vehicular movement and volumes expected from additional development already approved or pending in the City and Project neighborhood. As the Air Quality impacts discussion does not adequately analyze air quality impacts on the District, the discussion of air quality impacts is lacking, and the Draft EIR is not in compliance with CEQA. Further, although the Draft EIR generally concludes that there would be no impacts to sensitive receptors after implementation of mitigation measure AQ -2b, the Draft EIR does not discuss oversight of this mitigation measure, nor penalties or consequences of violating the conditions in the measure. This inadequate discussion of enforcement is in violation of CEQA. (Pub. Res. Code § 21081.6(b); CEQA Guidelines § 15126.4(a)(2) [EIR must have mitigation measures that are enforceable through conditions of approval, contracts or other means that are legally binding].) The analysis simply asks the reader to blindly believe that the City/Project applicant will select a contractor that adheres to the conditions and that the contractor actually adheres to the conditions. iv. Population and Housing The District anticipates that this Project will generate 100+ students, and specifically requested that the Draft EIR analyze: 22. Historical, current, and future population projections for the District. Related, the District requested that the following categories of information pertaining to housing be addressed: 23. The type and number of anticipated dwelling units indirectly resulting from the Project.