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Page 4 of 6 <br />City of Redwood City 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA. 94063 Tel: 650-780-7000 www.redwoodcity.org <br />Table 2: Main Changes to the Program Guidelines <br />Before Impact Proposed Change Guideline Status <br />permitted parklets, at a <br />huge cost <br />they meet California Building <br />Standards Code, and <br />accessibility, health, and <br />safety requirements. <br />Design considerations <br />were often extremely <br />prescriptive, and <br />alternate solutions which <br />may have met the goal <br />were not approved <br />Business owners and <br />designers were <br />frustrated by the level of <br />detail and the ability to <br />comply <br />Revised design <br />considerations to focus more <br />on the goal and less on the <br />way to get there <br />Included in Guidelines <br />in Section 4 <br />Design considerations <br />did not differentiate <br />between on-roadway <br />parklets and <br />pedestrianized street <br />parklets <br />Pedestrian street parklets <br />are blocked from the <br />closed street, resulting in <br />a “closed off” feeling on <br />what is meant to be an <br />open street, as well as <br />causing accessibility <br />issues from street to <br />sidewalk <br />Updated terminology, <br />requirements, and design <br />considerations for parklets <br />within active roadways <br />versus. pedestrian streets <br />Included in Guidelines <br />in Section 4. If <br />additional streets are <br />closed to vehicular <br />access, staff will return <br />to Council with <br />updated Guidelines. <br />Ill-defined process and <br />requirements for <br />applying for Overhead <br />Structures <br />Business owners felt that <br />they were being unfairly <br />treated in the approval <br />process, causing <br />expensive changes to <br />plans and frustration <br />Created a clearly defined <br />process for evaluating <br />Overhead Structures, and <br />added a section with design <br />requirements for materials <br />and other factors <br />Submittal <br />requirements are not <br />included in the <br />Guidelines; Design <br />requirements are in <br />the Guidelines in <br />Section 5 <br />The Guidelines did not <br />sufficiently address <br />emergency access <br />clearances and other <br />fire-related concerns <br />Business owners have <br />been slowly encroaching <br />into emergency access <br />lanes because they don’t <br />understand what’s <br />required for emergency <br />access to their buildings <br />Added language and <br />diagrams to more clearly <br />address emergency access <br />needs, including access to <br />fire department connections <br />(FDCs), fire lanes, vertical <br />clearance, and heating <br />device requirements <br />Included in Guidelines <br />in Section 4. <br />Only candles and open <br />flames were explicitly <br />prohibited. <br />Some patrons are <br />smoking on the parklets <br />or sidewalk cafes, causing <br />discomfort and public <br />Added in prohibitions for <br />smoking and vaping tobacco <br />and cannabis in parklets or <br />sidewalk cafes in the right-of- <br />way <br />Included in Guidelines <br />in Section 4 <br />6.E. - Page 4 of 76 <br />99