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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 42 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 17. Cumulative Impacts Impact C-CR-1: The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, in combination with past, present, existing, approved, pending, and reasonably foreseeable future projects would potentially result in significant cumulative impacts related to cultural, historic, and tribal cultural resources. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measures CR-1, CR-2, and NO-3 (SEIR, pp. 7-18 to 7-21) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact C-CR-1: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that incorporating the requirements of Mitigation Measures CR-1, CR-2, and NO-3 into the Project would lessen the severity of Impact C-CR-1, but not sufficiently so that this impact would be less than significant. Mitigation Measure CR-1 would require that, for each discretionary development project involving a historical resource in the amended DTPP area, the City would make a preliminary determination as to the potential for a significant adverse effect on the historic resource and, if such a determination is made, the applicant would be required to implement, as feasible, as step- wise series of measures including 1) compliance with the Secretary of the Interior’s 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 would be significant and unavoidable; however, this would not be a new significant impact, compared to DTPP Final EIR. 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 C-CR-1, and