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 46 ESA / 202100421.00 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report October 2022 noise and vibration; population or employment; and demand for public services and utilities—would generally be reduced, compared to those of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. All transportation impacts of the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would be less than significant, as with the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. In fact, the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would result in 20 percent fewer daily vehicle trips and a similar decrease in daily VMT, compared to the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would generate somewhat greater VMT per resident but somewhat lesser VMT per employee than would the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendment, although both the residential and office VMT would be below the City’s VMT Thresholds, as under the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. Like the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would result in a lesser percentage increase in VMT than in service population, and therefore, this alternative would not conflict with or obstruct implementation of the applicable air quality plan, and the Plan-level impact would be less than significant, as with the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. However, the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative, like the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, is conservatively concluded to have a significant unavoidable project and cumulative impact with respect to emissions of criteria air pollutants from individual subsequent development project(s), even with implementation of Mitigation Measures AQ-2a and AQ-2b. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative could result in similar, albeit somewhat lesser, significant health risk impact as would the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, and would be similarly reduced to a less-than-significant level with implementation of Mitigation Measure AQ-3. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would be consistent with the applicable clean air plan and would have a less-than-significant impact, as under the Transit District DTPP Amendments. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative could result in similar, albeit somewhat lesser, significant climate change impacts as the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. However, as with the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, these impacts, as well as this alternative’s cumulative climate change impacts, would be reduced to a less-than-significant level with Mitigation Measure CC-1. Nevertheless, similar to the Transit District DTPP Amendments, full implementation of Mitigation Measure CC-1 may not be feasible, and, as a result, impacts of the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative with respect to climate change are likewise conservatively considered to be significant and unavoidable. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative could result in similar, albeit somewhat lesser, construction noise and vibration impacts compared to the Transit District DTPP Amendments, and likewise would be mitigated to a less-than-significant level with implementation of Mitigation Measure NO-1 and NO-3, respectively. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative could result in similar, albeit somewhat lesser, building equipment noise impacts as the Transit District DTPP Amendments, and likewise be mitigated to a less-than-significant level with implementation of Mitigation Measure NO-2. Like the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would result in less-than-significant traffic noise impacts.