Reso PC22-08 0085 PC Reso Recommending CEQA

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Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act Harbor View Project PAGE 35 OF 48 ESA / 170951 Final Environmental Impact Report October 2022 ATTY/RESO.0085/PC RESO RECOMMENDING CEQA – EXHIBIT A REV: 11-02-2022 VR Impact TRANS-29: Under Cumulative Plus Project Conditions, the Project would result in the addition of traffic volumes representing more than five percent of the ramp's capacity to the northbound US 101 Off-Ramp to Woodside Road and southbound US 101 On-Ramp from Woodside Road, which already exceed the ramp capacity in the AM and PM peak hours, respectively under Cumulative Plus Project Conditions. C. Project Alternatives Descriptions The following seven Project alternatives, three of which are No Project development scenarios, were considered in the environmental review process: No Project – Existing General Plan (Light Industrial / Building Materials Use) Alternative. This “No Project – Existing General Plan” Alternative reflects development that could likely occur on the Project site through the natural course of growth under the existing Light Industrial (LI) General Plan land use designation and development standards. The LI land use designation allows low-intensity industrial and building materials uses that are the same as the land uses that would continue to exist immediately north of the Project site and that previously existed on areas of the Project site. This alternative assumes development of approximately 884,810 square feet of low- intensity industrial and building materials uses based on the maximum floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.75 allowed in the LI land use designation that applies to most (94 percent) of the 27.08-acre Project site.3 Also based on the maximum FAR, development of this alternative would include one to three low-rise three-story industrial or building materials buildings. Also, this alternative assumes no parking structures would be developed; surface parking would be provided throughout the site. No Project – Existing Zoning (70/30 Research & Development [R&D] Lab + Ancillary R&D Office) Alternative. This “No Project – Existing Zoning” Alternative reflects development that could likely occur on the Project site through the natural course of growth under the existing Industrial – Restricted (IR) zoning designation, to the extent that the growth is within what is currently permitted by the General Plan. The majority of the Project site is within the IR zoning designation, which is the basis for this alternative.4 This alternative assumes the development of two buildings totaling 578,076 square feet of R&D / Laboratory use (70 percent) and 247,747 square feet of ancillary R&D Office use (30 percent), for a total building area of 825,823 square feet on the Project site, based on land uses and 3 27.08 acres equals 1,179,605 square feet of site area, multiplied by a 0.75 FAR totals 884,704 square feet of building area. 4 The IR zone applies to 94 percent of the 27.08-acre Project site and to adjacent areas west and north of the Project site. The General Industrial (GI) zone applies to the remaining 6 percent of the Project site — the northeast most corner.