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3 8.Description of Project 1900 Broadway is a proposal to construct a mixed-use commercial office development with ground floor retail in Downtown Redwood City and 847 Woodside Road is a proposed affordable housing development outside of Downtown. The proposed development at the 1900 Broadway and 847 Woodside Road sites will undergo separate, but potentially concurrent, entitlement consideration and public hearings as they are on different sites and have different applicants and separate applications. However, the projects are related by virtue of the fact that the 847 Woodside project represents the reasonably foreseeable outcome of 1900 Broadway achieving compliance with the City’s Affordable Housing Ordinance (Zoning Code Article 29). In accordance with the Affordable Housing Ordinance, the developer for 1900 Broadway proposes to meet their project’s affordable housing requirements through land donation of 847 Woodside Road to Eden Housing, for the construction of affordable units. Because Lane Partners intends to fulfill its affordable housing obligation by this land donation, the projects are related, but the subsequent development of 847 Woodside Road is a separate action being proposed by a separate applicant (Eden Housing). Accordingly, the City considers the two independent and physically separate development sites to be separate projects for entitlement considerations. However, given their interconnection, with respect to environmental review, out of an abundance of caution and in order to fulfill CEQA’s purpose of evaluating “the whole of the action,” a single environmental analysis evaluating the impacts of both projects was prepared. Because a Development Agreement and appropriate conditions of approval require that 1900 Broadway fulfills its affordable housing requirements by donating the land at 847 Woodside for the purposes of constructing affordable housing, and the intended use of the land at 847 Woodside is known and being processed concurrently, 1900 Broadway and 847 Woodside together constitute “the project” for purposes of this CEQA evaluation. 1900 Broadway component: The applicant proposes to construct an approximately 256,205 square-foot (SF) commercial office building (with some retail) comprised of seven stories over two levels of underground parking (Plan Sheet G1, 11/9/23; Lane Partners, DES Architects + Engineers). The 69,875 square-foot project component site (approximately 1.60 acre) is comprised of multiple parcels, including approximately 21,104 square feet of land to be acquired from the City. The 1900 Broadway site is currently occupied by a former Wells Fargo branch and surface parking lot; a portion of Spring Street between Main Street and Walnut Street; and the Spring/Marshall Parklet. To form the 1.6-acre lot for development, the project component would require land assembly that includes closure and abandonment by the City of the Spring Street roadway segment between Main Street and Walnut Street and acquisition by the applicant of City-owned property, including the Spring/Marshall Parklet located in the northern and north-eastern part of the site. The existing “parklet” and temporary dog park would be removed. Dedication of any necessary public easement(s) would be made as part of the parcel map process. In addition, various public access and utility easements would need to be abandoned. (Plan Sheet TM2.1, 11/9/23). Acquisition of the City-owned property and the associated compliance with the Surplus Lands Act require City separate and subsequent actions. The applicant proposes to demolish and remove the existing two-story brick veneer structure and associated surface parking lot and construct a new seven-story commercial building with two levels of underground parking and limited additional parking on Floor 1 ATTY/RESO.0074/CC RESO 847 WOODSIDE (CEQA) - EXHIBIT 1 - CEQA CONSISTENCY CHECKLIST REV: 10-23-24 VR Page 3 of 135