Reso23-14 Reso 0048 PC23-14 PC Reso Recommending Certification of the SEIR GP & DTPP

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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 31 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 Standards; 2) relocation of the resource; 3) documentation of the resource; 4) reuse of the resource; 5) salvage of character-defining features; and 6) interpretation of the significance of the resource. Mitigation Measure CR-2 would require each discretionary development project that is adjacent to a historic resource to be reviewed by a qualified architect or architectural historian to identify site and architectural design modifications to avoid a “substantial adverse change” in the significance of the adjacent historic resource and protect its continued eligibility for listing on the California Register, required as conditions of project approval. Mitigation Measure NO-3 would impose conditions of approval that require the Project Applicant to ensure that ground-borne vibration abatement measures are implemented by the construction contractor to reduce ground-borne vibration levels generated by future site-specific demolition and construction activities that would be experienced at adjacent historic resources. The above mitigation measures are expected to mitigate the potential adverse impacts to historic resources from implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments to the maximum extent feasible. However, given the uncertainty with respect to the condition of and circumstances surrounding the historic resources at the time future development projects are proposed that would affect such resources, and without knowing the specific design characteristics of such future development proposals, the City cannot determine with certainty that these measures would reduce the DTPP Plan Wide Amendment’s potential impacts on historic resources to a less-than-significant level. Consequently, this impact may remain significant and unavoidable (newly unavoidable significant impact, compared to DTPP Final EIR, with respect to with respect to properties that contain historic resources; no new significant impact, compared to DTPP Final EIR, for properties adjacent to historic resources, in that it cannot be stated with certainty that adjacent new construction could have no significant impacts on adjacent historic resources). The City Council hereby finds, however, that there are specific economic, environmental, social, legal, technological and other considerations that make infeasible the potential mitigation measures described in the SEIR to mitigate the effect of Impact CR-1, and that development of the Project will provide specific economic, environmental, social, legal, technological and other benefits that will outweigh the significant adverse effects of Impact CR-1, as set forth in the Statement of Overriding Considerations below. This finding is based on the entire record of proceedings for the Project, including but not limited to the discussion and analysis set forth on pages pp. 7-18 to 7-21 of the DSEIR, which includes a full statement of the impact and is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety. Impact CR-2: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of an archaeological resource pursuant to Section 15064.5. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measure CR-3 (SEIR, pp. 7-21 to 7-23) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP.