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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 46 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 Impact C-CC-1: Implementation of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, in combination with past, present, existing, approved, pending, and reasonably foreseeable future projects, would not result in a cumulatively considerable contribution to GHG emissions that may have a significant impact on the environment or conflict with applicable plans, policies or regulations adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measure CC-1 (SEIR, pp. 13-35 to 13-36) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact C-CC-1: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that Mitigation Measure CC-1 would substantially lessen the severity of Impact C-CC-1. However, as explained under Impact CC-1, above, because the Redwood City Reach Codes are a statement of City policy, full implementation of Mitigation Measure CC-1 may not be feasible. Accordingly, as with the project impact, the cumulative impact is conservatively determined to be significant and unavoidable. 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 CC-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 C-CC-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 17-31 through 17-32 of the DSEIR, which includes a full statement of the impact and is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety. VI. Findings Regarding Project Alternatives The CEQA Guidelines require that an EIR describe a reasonable range of alternatives that would feasibly attain most of the basic project objectives but would avoid or substantially lessen any of the significant environmental effects of the project, and then evaluate the comparative merits of such alternatives. (Guidelines §15126(a)). A. City’s Objectives for the Project The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would consist of amendments to the Redwood City General Plan and DTPP to achieve the following City objectives: • To continue to allow for sustainable, transit-oriented development that is responsive to market demands and can be constructed. This additional development would be advanced through subsequent project-specific DTPP and General Plan amendments to increase the DTPP’s maximum allowable development cap for office use, and through subsequent project- specific approval(s) of increases in the number of residential units. This development would occur in an urban setting near employment, goods and services, and multimodal transportation facilities, thereby reducing vehicle miles traveled, greenhouse gas emissions, and air quality impacts, consistent with the City’s Housing, Transportation (Transit-Oriented Development), and Climate Goals;