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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act <br />Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 11 ESA / 202100421.01 <br />Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 <br />applicable development standards. Thus, any conflicts between the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide <br />Amendments and applicable design standards would be resolved and the proposed DTPP Plan- <br />Wide Amendments would be consistent with the City’s desired vision for a densely developed <br />downtown urban core visual character. The Redwood City Architectural Advisory Committee <br />would continue to review architectural design and form of structures in the City to ensure that <br />they are in keeping with the City’s desired scenic quality of the area. Thus, through amendments <br />to the DTPP, the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not conflict with regulations <br />governing scenic quality, and would not result in new or more severe impacts than those <br />identified in the DTPP Final EIR, and this impact would be less than significant. (Draft SEIR, pp. <br />6-10 to 6-12.) <br />Impact AE-4: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not create a new <br />source of substantial light or glare which would adversely affect day or nighttime views in the <br />area. <br />New sources of light within the amended DTPP area under the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide <br />Amendments would be required to meet the LZ3 (medium) lighting power allowances in the <br />California Building Standards Code Title 24 (Parts 1 and 6 – Outdoor Lighting Zones, which would <br />improve the quality of outdoor lighting and reduce the impacts of light pollution, light trespass, and <br />glare to less than significant levels. Therefore, the impact from the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide <br />Amendments on light and glare would be the same as the impact in the DTPP Final EIR and would <br />not result in new or more severe impacts than identified in the DTPP Final EIR. This impact would <br />be less than significant. (Draft SEIR, p. 6-12.) <br />7. Cultural and Historic Resources and Tribal Cultural Resources <br />Impact CR-3: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not disturb any <br />human remains, including those interred outside of formal cemeteries. <br />No human remains are known to exist in the amended DTPP area, and therefore, the <br />proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments are not anticipated to impact human remains, including <br />those interred outside of formal cemeteries. If any previously unknown human remains were <br />encountered during ground disturbing activities impacts would be reduced to a less than significant <br />level with implementation of PRC Section 5097.98 and Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5, <br />which requires the County Coroner will be contacted, and if the remains are Native American, the <br />coroner will contact the NAHC and the most likely descendent will make recommendations for <br />means of treating the human remains and any associated grave goods. The DTPP Final EIR did not <br />specifically address impacts associated with human remains, including those interred outside of <br />formal cemeteries. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not result in new or more <br />severe impacts than identified in the Final EIR because the requirements of PRC Section 5097.98 <br />and Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 are sufficient to reduce this impact to a less-than- <br />significant level. (Draft SEIR, p. 7-23.)