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and associated Mitigation Monitoring Program ("Housing Element Update MMR -P"). G. On January 24, 2011, the City Council adopted its Downtown Precise Plan ("DTPP") to establish new land use and development regulations in order to produce a unique and robust downtown, within the context of a rich, historic, and valued built environment. Concurrently with the adoption of the DTPP, on January 24, 2011, the City Council also certified a Final Environmental Impact Report for the DTPP ("DTPP Final EIR"). The DTPP area consists of approximately one hundred eighty-three acres within City's historic center and is generally bounded on the north by Veteran's Boulevard, on the east by Maple Street, to the southwest by properties located on El Camino Real, and to the northwest by Brewster Avenue. The DTPP streamlined the analysis and public review of projects within the DTPP area by establishing development standards and limits or caps of maximum allowable development ("MAD Caps") for dwelling units per acre and floor area ratios for office, retail and hotel development. Residential capacity limits in the DTPP area were eliminated by the City Council on November 28, 2022 with the approval of Resolution No, 16104. The Property for the Project is located within the DTPP area. H. The MAD Caps of maximum allowable development for office space established under the DTPP have been reached. Accordingly, future projects seeking to exceed the DTPP MAD Caps would require amendments to the City's General Plan and DTPP. I. Commencing in 2020, and in response to a large number of projects requesting amendments to the City's General Plan and DTPP, the City Council implemented a process to evaluate the pending amendment requests, collectively referred to as the "Gatekeeper" process, which enabled the City Council to conceptually consider one or more General Plan Amendment and DTPP Amendment requests simultaneously. Throughout 2020 through 2021, the City Council conducted several study sessions and considered multiple potential projects at a high level and identified which projects should be reviewed and considered for General Plan and DTPP Amendments as applicable as a project under the Gatekeeper process ("Gatekeeper Projects"). On October 12, 2020, and later on May 24, 2021, pursuant to Redwood City Municipal Code Chapter 18, Article XI (Adoption and Amendment of General Plan), the City Council initiated General Plan Amendment and DTPP Plan -Wide Amendment proceedings in anticipation of six Gatekeeper Projects in the DTPP boundary area and two Gatekeeper Projects located outside the DTPP area. The City Council selected the Property and Project to be one of the six initiated Gatekeeper Projects located in the DTPP. J. On June 26, 2023, the City Council considered and approved amendments to its General Plan and DTPP to accommodate the potential for additional office and residential development in the DTPP area, as informed by the proposed Gatekeeper Projects ("DTPP Plan - Wide Amendments"), and as indicated in City Resolution Nos. 16154 and 16155. Adoption of the DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments included but was not limited to amendments to the DTPP and the Redwood City General Plan, to revise certain development standards, guidelines and policies, including, but not necessarily limited to, those with respect to permitted or conditionally permitted land uses; streets and circulation (including pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular circulation); building placement; building height and massing (including allowing the development of ATTY/AGR/2024.193-GATEKEEPER DA -1900 BROADWAY REV: 10-22-24 VR