Reso PC20-13 PC 0118 Reso South Main Mixed-Use Project Signed

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ATTY/RESO.0118/PC RESO SOUTH MAIN MIXED-USED PROJECT REV: 10-21-2020 PR Page 28 of 31 Support, enhance, and connect to the City’s existing and planned open-space network, including opportunities for pedestrian walkways along the adjacent Redwood Creek. Activate frontages along public streets consistent with the City’s Complete Streets concept, resulting in enhanced connectivity between the project and surrounding neighborhoods by all modes of transportation, including walking, biking, and driving. Provide and enhance connections and access to Downtown Redwood City and the Transit Center to reduce vehicle miles traveled. Support the City’s Historic Preservation Ordinance and give recognition and consideration to properties and areas that reflect special elements of the City’s historic, architectural, cultural, and aesthetic heritage Deliver an economically feasible development, balancing market conditions, city objectives, and community benefits. The City determined the following to be their objectives for the Project (see DEIR page 2-8): Support mixed-use development that places residential and commercial uses in close proximity to each other, and close to transit options. Support community benefits, and help the City to achieve its affordable housing goals through the inclusion of a range of housing choices and affordability types along the Corridor. Support the Council’s top three priority focus areas of strategic initiatives and goals for housing, transportation, and children and youth. Improve pedestrian, bicycle, and open spaces connections to support the circulation network for all modes of travel. Findings Relating to Alternatives Based on the evaluation and analysis of Project alternatives set forth in Chapter 5 of the DEIR (pages 5-1through 5-13), and on the entire record of proceedings for the Project, the City Council hereby makes the following findings: Findings Relating to No Project Alternative. The No Project Alternative would avoid all of the Project’s significant environmental impacts, but it would not achieve or promote any of the Project objectives (DEIR pages 5-4 through 5-6 and pages 5-12 to 5-13 (Table 5- 2)). Because the No Project Alternative would not achieve or promote any of the City’s or the applicant’s objectives for the Project, the City Council hereby finds that the No Project Alternative is not feasible. Findings Relating to Preservation Alternative. The Preservation Alternative could avoid the Project’s significant and unavoidable cultural resource impacts by preserving and adapting Perry’s Feed Shed for retail use, and in so doing would meet most of the project’s objectives to the same degree as the Project (DEIR at 5-6 to 5-8). However, the