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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 7 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 4. Land Use and Planning Impact LU-1: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not physically divide an established community. Implementation of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not include physical barriers or obstacles to circulation that would restrict existing patterns of movement between the amended DTPP area and the surrounding neighborhoods. In addition, the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would include features designed to encourage and promote public access, improve vehicular, bicycle and pedestrian circulation, where limited access exists today, and encourage alternative modes of transportation besides automobile. The proposed DTPP Plan- Wide Amendments would increase connectivity in and around Downtown and would reinforce existing land use patterns by allowing for infill development in the DTPP. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not physically divide an established community, and impacts from the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would generally be beneficial, which would be the same as the DTPP Final EIR and would not result in new or more severe impacts than those identified in the Final EIR. Therefore, this impact would be less than significant. (Draft SEIR, pp. 4-11 to 4-12.) Impact LU-2: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not cause a significant environmental impact due to a conflict with any land use plan, policy, or regulation adopted for the purpose of avoiding or mitigating an environmental effect. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not conflict with Plan Bay Area 2050 because the Amendments are assumed to, indirectly, result in increased density and circulation improvements in close proximity to the Redwood City Transit Center; the compact growth pursuant to the plan would occur within a PDA included in Plan Bay Area 2050; and the amended DTPP area is adjacent or near to a high-quality transit corridor, and in an area planned for future housing and job growth. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would also not conflict with the Comprehensive Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP) for the Environs of San Carlos Airport. The City submitted the proposed action to the C/CAG of San Mateo County—the Airport Land Use Commission (ALUC) for San Mateo County—for a determination of consistency with the ALUCP prior to issuing a permit for the development. The C/CAG Board of Directors has approved a consistency determination, subject to the City requiring that the City include as a condition of approval that new residential projects within a newly designated Overflight Notification Zone 2 for San Carlos Airport record an Overflight Notification as a condition of subsequent project approval. The City requires such a condition through amendments made to the DTPP in November 2022, in connection with adoption of the Transit District Sub-District within the DTPP. Among these amendments is a requirement, consistent with October 2022 revisions to the ALUCP, that property owners of new residential projects in Zone 2, as described above and which is coincident with Airport Influence Area B, record an Overflight Deed Notification on the property for which a Planned Community permit, parcel or tentative or final subdivision map, use permit, or similar planning approval is issued. The required notice, which must accompany subsequent sales and leases, is intended to advise property owners, tenants, and users of property of the annoyances or inconveniences associated with proximity to an airport and aircraft operations (for example: noise, vibration, overflights, or odors). The November 2022 DTPP amendments