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 47 ESA / 202100421.00 Subsequent Environmental Impact Report October 2022 The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative, similar to the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, would have less-than-significant impacts with respect to population and housing less-than-significant impacts with respect to population and housing because it would not induce substantial unplanned growth and would not result in residential displacement. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would result in less-than-significant impacts with respect to public services (police, fire, and emergency medical services; parks and recreational facilities; schools; and libraries), as under the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. The Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would also have less-than significant impacts with respect to utilities and infrastructure (including water quality; groundwater recharge; storm drainage; flood hazard, tsunami, or seiche zones, risk release of pollutants due to project inundation; and consistency with a water quality control plan or sustainable groundwater management plan), as under the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. Annual water demand would be reduced by approximately 10 percent, compared to that with the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, but would be about 31 percent greater than with the Reduced Development Alternative, because residential use is generally more water-intensive than most non-residential uses. Effects related to the footprint of subsequent development projects under the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would generally be the same as or similar to those of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments although lesser overall development would occur within the proposed Transit District area, including related to disturbance of archaeological or tribal cultural resources, potential exposure during construction to subsurface soil or groundwater contamination, potential disturbance of paleontological resources, effects on historical resources, effects on corrosive soils and impacts on biological resources; and would be similarly mitigated to less than significant level with implementation of mitigation. As with the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments, effects of the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would be less than significant with respect to land use and aesthetics (including shadow). As discussed above, on the whole, due to the overall reduced scale of development, this alternative would provide a greater decrease in significant environmental impacts, compared to those of the proposed project, although less than that which would occur under the Reduced Development Alternative. As with the Reduced Development Alternative, the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would not substantially lessen or avoid the significant and unavoidable air quality and climate change impacts of the proposed Transit District DTPP Amendments. In addition, to the extent that the demand for additional developed office space that would otherwise be built pursuant to the proposed project would be met elsewhere in the Bay Area, employees in such development could potentially generate greater impacts on transportation systems (including VMT), air quality, and greenhouse gases than would be the case for development on the more compact and better-served-by-transit project site. This would be particularly likely for development in more outlying parts of the region where fewer services and less transit access is provided. As with the Reduced Development Alternative, it is acknowledged that the Altered Land Use Mix Alternative would incrementally reduce local impacts in and around the project site and in Downtown Redwood City, while potentially increasing regional emissions of criteria air pollutants and greenhouse gases, as well as regional traffic congestion.