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 37 ESA / 202100421.00 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report October 2022 provide to the City detailed procedures for the avoidance or preservation or these resources, or for complete data recovery concerning these resources. 17. Cumulative Impacts Impact C-UT-1: Implementation of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, in combination with past, present, existing, approved, pending, and reasonably foreseeable future projects in the vicinity and Citywide, would not contribute considerably to cumulative impacts on utilities and service systems. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measures UT-1 and UT-2 (FSEIR, p. 17-18) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact C-UT-1: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that Mitigation Measures UT-1 and UT-2 would substantially lessen the severity of Impact C-UT-1, such that this potential impact would be less than significant. Under Mitigation Measure UT-1, development projects in the Transit District area shall pay a fair-share contribution towards the cost of providing emergency water storage for all proposed uses to fund the design and construction of such storage for Downtown, which would also apply to cumulative development. Implementation of this mitigation measure would ensure un-interruption of water supply in case of a potential drought or disaster-caused emergency. In addition, implementation of Mitigation Measure UT-2 requires all development in the Transit District area recycled water infrastructure to each project’s location, and this measure would also be applicable to cumulative development projects. Impact C-AQ-1: Adoption of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments would result in a cumulatively considerable contribution to the regional cumulative air quality impacts. Mitigation Measures. SEIR Mitigation Measure AQ-2b (FSEIR, p. 17-24) will be implemented for the Project as provided in the MMRP. Findings Regarding Impact C-AQ-1: Based on the FSEIR and the entire record before the City, the Council finds that Mitigation Measure AQ-2b would substantially lessen the severity of Impact C-AQ-1. Mitigation Measure AQ-2b requires that for projects that exceed BAAQMD screening levels, a project-level criteria air pollutant assessment of construction and operational emissions shall be prepared at the time the project is proposed; and if the analysis finds that the project could result in criteria air pollutant emissions that exceed BAAQMD significance thresholds, the project applicant emission reduction measures shall be implemented to the degree necessary to reduce the impact to less than the significance thresholds. However, as explained under Impact AQ-2, even with implementation of Mitigation Measure AQ-2b, it cannot be stated with certainty that criteria air pollutant impacts associated with all subsequent development projects would be reduced to less-than-significant levels. As such, criteria pollutant emissions from construction and operation of subsequent projects in the Transit District area would be significant and unavoidable, on a cumulative basis and would be a new impact not