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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 44 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 scenario, the City expects to meet these supply shortfalls through water demand reductions and other shortage response actions by implementation of its Water Shortage Contingency Plan (WSCP). With implementation of the Bay-Delta Plan Amendment, single dry year shortfalls would trigger Stage 4 or 5 of the WSCP, while multiple dry year shortfalls would require implementation of Stage 4, 5 or 6 of the WSCP. Without the Bay-Delta Plan Amendment, single dry year shortfalls would trigger Stage 1 of the WSCP, and multiple dry year shortfalls would require implementation of Stage 1 or 2 of the WSCP. Ultimately, implementation of the WSCP would allow the City would be able to reduce the water shortage for each stage of a drought emergency. Like all water users in Redwood City, development within the amended DTPP area would also be subject to water use limitations in the WSCP in the event of water shortages resulting from dry years and implementation of the Bay-Delta Plan Amendment, should such limitations be imposed. As discussed in Impact UT-2, implementation of Mitigation Measure UT-2 would provide for extension of recycled water infrastructure to each subsequent development project in the amended DTPP area. With this measure, and with implementation of the WSCP, the City would have sufficient water supplies to accommodate the growth associated with the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments in combination with reasonably foreseeable future development. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not make a considerable contribution to cumulative impacts on water supply, and the cumulative effect of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would be less than significant. Impact C-AQ-1: Adoption of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would result in a cumulatively considerable contribution to the regional cumulative air quality impacts. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measures AQ-2a and AQ-2b (SEIR, pp. 12-37 to 12-39) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact C-AQ-1: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that Mitigation Measures AQ-2a and AQ-2b would lessen the severity of Impact C-AQ-1. Mitigation Measure AQ-2a requires implementation of best management practices consistent with Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) recommendations fugitive dust emissions. Mitigation Measure AQ-2b requires that for projects that exceed BAAQMD screening levels, a project-level criteria air pollutant assessment of construction and operational emissions shall be prepared at the time the project is proposed; and if the analysis finds that the project could result in criteria air pollutant emissions that exceed BAAQMD significance thresholds, the project applicant emission reduction measures shall be implemented to the degree necessary to reduce the impact to less than the significance thresholds. However, as explained under Impact AQ-2, even with implementation of Mitigation Measure AQ-2b, it cannot be stated with certainty that criteria air pollutant impacts associated with all subsequent development projects would be reduced to less-than-significant levels. As such, criteria pollutant emissions from construction and operation of subsequent projects in the amended DTPP area would be significant and unavoidable, on a cumulative basis and would be a new impact not previously identified in the DTPP Final EIR.