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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 53 ESA / 202100421.01 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report May 2023 With the same land uses at a reduced intensity in at least some of the same locations as with the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, the Reduced Development Alternative would likewise have less-than-significant impacts with respect to public services (police, fire, and emergency medical services; parks and recreational facilities; schools; and libraries) as would the DTPP Plan- Wide Amendments. With the same land uses at a reduced intensity in at least some of the same locations as with the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, the Reduced Development Alternative would have less- than-significant impacts with mitigation with respect to water supply and water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities and infrastructure, and less-than significant impacts on electric power, natural gas, and telecommunications facilities and on hydrology and water quality; these impact conclusions would be the same as for the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. In particular, the Reduced Development Alternative would generate about two-thirds of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments’ water demand and likewise would result in about two-thirds of the wastewater treatment demand. Mitigation measures included to reduce the impacts of development allowed by the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments on water supplies would similarly reduce impacts of development allowed under the Reduced Development Alternative to less than significant. Concerning transportation, because it would result in an increase, compared to existing conditions, of office and residential uses in proximity to a transit station and other comparable uses, the Reduced Development Alternative would be consistent with the General Plan, DTPP, and RWCMoves, like the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. This alternative would increase transit ridership, although by a lesser amount than would the proposed DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments. Related effects of the Reduced Development Alternative would be less than significant, as with the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. The Reduced Development Alternative would result in approximately 5 percent fewer daily vehicle trips and an approximately 7 percent decrease in daily vehicle miles traveled (VMT) under cumulative conditions, compared to the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. However, the Reduced Development Alternative would generate more VMT per employee than would the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, and at 16.2 VMT per employee, would exceed the City’s significance threshold of 15.0 VMT per employee, which would be a new significant effect of the Reduced Development Alternative. Accordingly, additional mitigation would be required, compared to that required under the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, in the form of enhanced TDM programs for employment-generating uses (i.e., general office, R&D Laboratory), compared to that required under the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, to comply with the City’s TDM Ordinance. This would reduce the potential employee VMT impact to a less-than- significant level. Residential VMT would be incrementally greater than with the proposed DTPP Amendments, but would remain below the City’s VMT threshold. The proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments would have less-than-significant impacts with respect to safety hazards and emergency access. Because it would develop similar land uses and the intensity of office uses would be lower, the Reduced Development Alternative would similarly result in less than significant impacts.