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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments 57 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 Altered Land Use Mix 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 Altered Land Use Mix 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 Altered Land Use Mix 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 Altered Land Use Mix 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 Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would be less than significant, as with the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would result in approximately 2 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 Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would generate more VMT per employee than would the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments, and, at 16.1 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 Altered Land Use Mix 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 Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would similarly result in less than significant impacts. Effects related to the footprint of subsequent development projects would generally be the same as or similar to those of the proposed DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments. This is because the locations of subsequent development projects would not necessarily change, although lesser office development would occur within the amended DTPP area. Because any change in the footprint or size of subsequent development projects, if any, cannot be known at this time, it is assumed that excavation could potentially disturb archaeological or tribal cultural resources, potentially occur on