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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 48 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 creek or stormwater features, or that provide publicly accessible open space as identified by the City, to building placement requirements (i.e., build-to-corner, building setback, and frontage coverage requirements) to allow corner setbacks, other setbacks from the street, and lesser lot coverage than is currently required; permitting limited exceptions to the stepdown requirements; and lowering the required minimum heights from 35 feet to two stories, with a range of 25 to 35 feet, or less with a potential exception. B. Significant Environmental Impacts of the Project Based on the analyses in Chapters 4 through 17 of the DSEIR, the City has determined that all of the proposed Project’s potentially significant environmental effects would be avoided or reduced to less-than-significant levels through implementation of the mitigation measures described in the DSEIR and MMRP, except for the following: • Impact CR-1: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would potentially cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource pursu ant to Section 15064.5. • Impact AQ-2: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of criteria pollutants for which the project region is non- attainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air quality standard. • Impact CC-1: Implementation of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment. • Impact CC-2: Implementation of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would not conflict with an applicable plan, policy or regulation adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. • 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. • 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. • Impact C-CC-1: Implementation of the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, in combination with past, present, existing, approved, pending, and reasonably foreseeable future projects, could 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. C. Project Alternatives Descriptions Through the environmental review process, the City identified the following three (3) Project alternatives for consideration: No Project Alternative. The No Project/Existing DTPP Alternative would not assume increased development in the DTPP area beyond that permitted under the existing development caps.