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78 an industrially-zoned campus to allow more intensive administrative office and, to a lesser Page 3 extent, medical clinic and R&D land uses. Environmental Review Staff has detennined that an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) under the California Environmental Quality Act is necessary to identify, evaluate and mitigate potential environmental impacts that could be associated with Stanford University's proposed campus demolition and rebuild project, including a special focus on water demand/supply, sewer capacity, flooding and potential traffic impacts to the surrounding neighborhood and locaVregional roadway network. A Water Supply Assessment as well as utility /infrastructure studies are required for a project of this size. The EIR will also address existing stonn drainage and flood control impacts in the area. In addition, the existing campus was originally created with oversized parcels for lower intensity industrial-type land uses that resulted in "super-blocks" which are out of scale with the historic grid system and that are not appropriate for more intensive commercial land uses. Consequently, staff is working with an urban design finn and has recommended the reestablishment of the existing street grid (Le. extend Barron, Warrington and Hurlingame Avenues from Bay Road through to Broadway) to provide more traditionally sized commercial city blocks to better distribute anticipated increases in traffic trips generated from the project site. The applicant's conceptual plan shows a central pedestrian greenway within the project core that responds to staff's street extension request by providing auto access from Bay through the campus to Broadway via a Warrington Avenue extension. Barron and Hurlingame Avenues are also extended but in the fonn of pedestrian paseos that would also allow emergency vehicle access from Bay to Broadway. The concept plan will include adequate building setbacks and driveway widths to allow for the possible extension of all three streets (Barron, Warringon and Hurlingame Avenues) for auto access purposes (i.e. they are to be designed to be converted to streets if they are needed in the future) and will be evaluated as options in the EIR traffic/circulation analysis. The EIR will also include project alternatives which are currently being developed and will be made public at a future date. Some traffic/circulation project alternatives include modifications to freeway access such as: . New frontage roadway that runs through the campus along the edge of Highway 101 from the project site's Douglas Avenue cul-de-sac to Rolison Road. . New hook ramp to provide direct access from the project site/campus to Highway 101 (similar to the City of San Carlos Brittan on/off ramp). Other alternatives, including a reduced project alternative, will be studied. New General Plan and Zoning Designations Stanford University's application for a General Plan Amendment has been submitted in the midst of the City's New General Plan process. If Council initiates the General Plan Amendment for the Stanford campus at this time, the proposed amendment will be considered as a land use alternative in the New General Plan and will be studied in the environmental impact report to be prepared for the New General Plan. The "Wave 1" New General Plan public outreach included a number of affinity group meetings. Public comments from those meetings about this part of Redwood City were relatively limited.