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<br /> <br /> <br />7 <br /> <br />Additionally in 2025, the City anticipates approval of entitlements for a new recreational center <br />adjacent to the VMSC in Red Morton Park that will be operated by the YMCA of Silicon Valley. <br /> <br />Public Safety Element <br />Pursuant to Public Safety Element Goal PS-5, City staff are currently taking the next steps to <br />determine measures for implementing the Sea-Level Rise Vulnerability and Adaptation Planning <br />Study, which may include updates to the General Plan in 2025 or 2026. <br /> <br />Natural Resources Element <br />Natural Habitat & Open Space Chapter <br />In 2022, the State enacted SB 1425, which requires local jurisdictions to update their Open Space <br />Element by January 1, 2026, to address: <br />1. Access to open space for all residents in a manner that considers social, economic, and <br />racial equity, correlated with the environmental jusƟce element or environmental jusƟce <br />policies in the general plan, as applicable. <br />2. Climate resilience and other co-benefits of open space, correlated with the safety <br />element. <br />3. Rewilding opportuniƟes, correlated with the land use element. <br />The City already adopted environmental justice policies throughout all elements of its General <br />Plan in 2023. Staff are currently studying how to implement changes to the Natural Resources <br />Element to implement the aspects of SB 1425 related to climate resilience and rewilding <br />opportunities by the end of 2025. <br /> <br />Urban Forest Chapter <br />Pursuant to Goal NR-9 of the Natural Resources Element, which is to “maintain, enhance, and <br />increase the number of trees on both public and private property to provide the maximum <br />benefits of improved air quality, compensate for carbon dioxide production, reduce stormwater <br />runoff, and mitigate the urban heat island effect,” the City is planning to conduct a Street Tree <br />Inventory of existing street trees and tree wells in 2025. The City is also conducting community <br />outreach in preparation for an update to the City’s Tree Ordinance. <br /> <br />Precise Plan Updates <br />Downtown Precise Plan <br />The City hired a consultant team in 2024 to support City staff in updating the community vision, <br />objectives, and development standards for Downtown Redwood City and adjacent <br />neighborhoods. This comprehensive planning effort, dubbed the Greater Downtown Area Plan, <br />is anticipated to repeal and replace the City’s existing Downtown Precise Plan. <br /> <br />Redwood Life Precise Plan <br />In July 2023, the City Council initiated a process to prepare a Precise Plan, to replace the Westport <br />Specific Plan. The Precise Plan update has been offered as part of the proposed Redwood Life <br />project, which is an 85-acre life sciences campus located in the Redwood Shores neighborhood. <br />6.A. - Page 51 of 52 <br />60