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 40 ESA / 202100421.00 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report October 2022 To lower the parking requirement to reflect anticipated reduced future parking demand, current best practices and future plans for Caltrain track expansion that will encourage nondriving modes of transportation while continuing to incentivize shared parking and the ability for project applicants to pay a fee to the City in lieu of providing new parking spaces; To require frontage improvements to support active transportation consistent with RWCmoves, Redwood City’s Citywide Transportation Plan; with the City’s El Camino Real Corridor Plan; and with the City’s in-progress Vision Zero strategy to eliminate traffic fatalities and severe injuries and the RWC Walk Bike Thrive initiative; To provide options for more design flexibility to allow for increased diversity in architecture and style; and To maintain existing DTPP maximum building height limits (i.e., no changes to the maximum allowable height) in the proposed Transit District, but allow for some development flexibility by permitting limited exceptions to building placement requirements (i.e., build-to-corner, building setback, and frontage coverage requirements) to allow corner setbacks, other setbacks from the street, and lesser lot coverage than is currently required; and lowering the required minimum heights from 35 feet to 25 feet, or less with a potential exception. The exceptions would allow for reduced massing and shadows, an enhanced pedestrian experience, and provide support for ground floor retail. B. Significant Environmental Impacts of the Project Based on the analyses in Chapters 4 through 17 of the DSEIR, the City has determined that all of the proposed Project’s potentially significant environmental effects would be avoided or reduced to less-than-significant levels through implementation of the mitigation measures described in the DSEIR and MMRP, except for the following: Impact AQ-2: Adoption of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments would result in a cumulatively considerable net increase of any criteria pollutant for which the project region is non-attainment under an applicable federal or state ambient air quality standard. 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. Impact CC-2: Implementation of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments would not conflict with an applicable plan, policy or regulation adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. 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. Impact C-CC-1: Implementation of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, in combination with past, present, existing, approved, pending, and reasonably foreseeable future projects, would not result in a cumulatively considerable contribution to GHG emissions that may have a significant impact on the environment or conflict with applicable plans, policies or regulations adopted for the purpose of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases.