Reso PC22-06 0079 PC Reso Recommending Certification of the SEIR

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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Redwood City Transit District DTPP Amendments 33 ESA / 202100421.00 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report October 2022 Impact AQ-3: Adoption of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments would not expose sensitive receptors to substantial pollutant concentrations. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measure AQ-3 (FSEIR, p. 12-40) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact AQ-3: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that Mitigation Measure AQ-3 would substantially lessen the severity of Impact AQ-3, such that this potential impact would be less than significant. Mitigation Measure AQ-3 would require subsequent projects within 1,000 feet of existing or approved sensitive receptors to undergo a project-level health risk assessment (HRA) at the time the project is proposed and to utilize the clean construction equipment required by Mitigation Measure AQ-2b if the project-specific health risk thresholds are exceeded. 13. Climate Change Impact CC-1: Implementation of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments would not generate greenhouse gas emissions, either directly or indirectly, that may have a significant impact on the environment. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measure CC-1 (FSEIR, pp. 13-35 to 13-36) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact 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 CC-1. Subsequent development projects shall comply with the “all electric” requirement in the City’s Reach Codes in effect at the time that a building permit application is filed, and shall comply with EV requirements in CALGreen Tier 2 in the most recently adopted version of CALGreen Tier 2 at the time that a building permit application is filed. However, while Mitigation Measure CC-1 would disallow these exceptions within the Transit District area, this mitigation measure may not be feasible for economic or other reasons. Because the Redwood City Reach Codes are less than two years old, and are, as such, a recently adopted statement of City policy, full implementation of Mitigation Measure CC-1 may not be feasible. Accordingly, this 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 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 13-32 through 13-36 of the DSEIR, which includes a full statement of the impact and is hereby incorporated herein in its entirety.