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Wagstaff and Associates City of Redwood City June 26, 2009 Contract Exhibit "A" New Downtown Precise Plan EIR Page 1-2 Notice of EIR Completion; attendance at a Planning Commission public hearing to present and receive comments on the new Draft EIR; preparation of a new administrative draft, screen check draft and public release Final EIR (responses to comments) document; preparation of an associated new Notice of Determination and revised Mitigation Monitoring Plan (checklist); preparation of a new Notice of Determination; and attendance at two related Planning Commission and/or City Council public meetings for final action on the new EIR. Our proposed work scope has been designed to complete a comprehensive DPP EIR revision that: (1) Is consistent with, and benefits from efficiencies presented by, the anticipated new General Plan EIR (certification expected in October 2009); (2) Provides a revised project description, incorporating the DPP revisions currently being completed by City staff to achieve consistency with the anticipated new General Plan and respond to the Court, including a more definitive shadow policy, expanded historic resource protection requirements, associated building height and mass articulation control revisions, and other possible revisions; (3) Provides a revised estimate of the project-facilitated Downtown development increments for residential (units), office (square feet), retail (square feet), lodging (rooms), industrial (square feet) and civic/institutional (square feet) based on the project description changes and new General Plan assumptions; (4) Revises the 2007 EIR Transportation and Circulation chapter to incorporate an updated transportation setting, impact and mitigation evaluation by Fehr and Peers, transportation consultants for the new General Plan; (5) Revises the 2007 EIR Air Quality and Noise chapters to incorporate similar updated setting, impact and mitigation evaluations by Illingworth & Rodkin, Inc., air quality and noise consultants for the 2007 DPP EIR and new General Plan program; (6) Adds a new Climate Change chapter that describes the potential beneficial and adverse impacts of the new DPP on local greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and global climate change, based in part on CO2 and other GHG equivalent emissions modeling by Illingworth & Rodkin; (7) Revises the 2007 EIR Cultural and Historic Resources chapter to incorporate the additional Downtown area historic resources survey work performed for the City by Circa subsequent to the previous DPP EIR in order to adequately respond to Court-identified historic resources impact concerns; (8) Revises the Alternatives to the Proposed Action chapter of the 2007 EIR to include adequate discussion of two additional alternatives--a Reduced Building Height Alternative and an Alternative Site Location--and associated revisions to the chapter conclusions regarding the environmentally superior alternative; and (9) Revises all other environmental chapters of the 2007 EIR as necessary to address the revised project description and achieve consistency with the anticipated new General Plan EIR. C:IWDlPROPOSALSI0807lrev-ex-aI0807 rev ex-a. doc