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65 outcroppings, or unique geological features. These areas are more likely to contain isolated unique geologic features. Proposed development in the Planning Area has the potential to destroy unique paleontological resources (p. 4.7-18). The Focused GPU EIR discusses the existing measures and regulations that reduce potentially significant paleontological resources impacts in the Planning Area. These include Redwood City’s Cultural Resources Management Plan, which requires development proponents to consult with the Northwest Information Center (NWIC), a standard City condition of approval requiring work stoppage in the even ground disturbing activities identify paleontological resources, and the City’s standard procedures requiring a qualified paleontologist’s assessment of the potential for development proposed to destroy paleontological resources prior to the issuance of grading and demolition permits (p. 4.7-18). The Focused GPU EIR concluded the City’s established processes under the Cultural Resources Management Plan would reduce potential impacts related to paleontological or unique geologic resources to less than significant. No mitigation was required. The proposed project component would not cause a potentially significant impact to any known (recorded) paleontological resources in the project component vicinity. Nevertheless, the project component is required to comply with existing City processes established to reduce potentially significant impacts to paleontological and geologic resources. The project component’s compliance with said processes shall be required as a condition of project approval. As a result, the impacts would be less than significant. This project component is consistent with the Focused GPU EIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. CONCLUSION With regards to the issue area of Geology and Soils, the following findings can be made: (1) no peculiar impacts to the 847 Woodside Road project component or its site have been identified, (2) there are no potentially significant effects or off-site and/or cumulative impacts which were not discussed by the Focused GPU EIR, (3) no substantial new information has been identified which results in an impact which is more severe than anticipated by the Focused GPU EIR, and (4) the Focused GPU EIR concluded a less-than-significant impact. Therefore, component-specific impacts would be less than significant, and no mitigation is required. For these reasons, the geology and soils impacts of the proposed project component would be consistent with the impacts identified in the Focused GPU EIR and this project component does not require additional environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. ATTY/RESO.0074/CC RESO 847 WOODSIDE (CEQA) - EXHIBIT 1 - CEQA CONSISTENCY CHECKLIST REV: 10-23-24 VR Page 65 of 135