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122 impact. It would not result in new or more severe impacts with respect to population growth than in the EIR/SEIR and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. CONCLUSION: With regards to the issue area of Public Services, the following findings can be made: (1) no peculiar impacts to the Commercial 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 EIR/SEIR, (3) no substantial new information has been identified which results in an impact which is more severe than anticipated by the EIR/SEIR, and (4) no mitigation measures contained within the EIR/SEIR would be required because the project component specific impacts would be less than significant (as discussed above, DTPP program EIR Mitigation Measure 8-1 has already been effectively implemented in the Downtown area). For these reasons, the public services impacts of the proposed Commercial Component would be consistent with the impacts identified in the EIR/SEIR and this component does not require additional environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. Housing Component: a. The Focused GPU EIR found implementation would not have a less than significant impact with respect to fire protection. While the increase in residents and land use intensity would increase the demand for fire protection services, continued payment of fire protection fees and property taxes would ensure future projects would not have a significant effect on service demands. Implementation of the proposed Housing Component would not result in substantial physical impacts associated with the provision of new or physically altered governmental facilities, or the need for new or physically altered governmental facilities, in order to maintain acceptable service ratios, response times, or other performance objectives beyond those identified in the Focused GPU program EIR (pp. 4.15-1 through 4.15-16). The subject site is served by the City of Redwood City Fire and Police departments. The Fire Department facility serving the project site is Station 9 at 755 Marshall Street, less than three-quarters of a mile northwest from the subject site. The Police Department is headquartered at 1301 Maple Street, about one mile north of the subject site. Personnel from the Fire Department participate in the City’s Plan Review Committee (PRC) process and reviewed the overall proposed project (including both project components). Furthermore, the Focused GPU program EIR (pp. 4.15-9 through 4.15-13) concluded that there would be no significant impacts resulting from the construction of new or expanded facilities as a result of population growth from the Focused GPU because growth facilitated by the Focused GPU would not increase demand for services to the extent that new or expanded facilities would be required. Public services impacts related to fire protection, police protection, schools, and libraries would be less than significant. (Parks and recreation services are discussed in item XVI, Recreation, which follows.) The Housing Component design would be required to comply with all applicable City and State codes and regulations pertaining to emergency access, as well as fire protection and security. For example, project component plans (Plan Sheets A100 and G003, 10/6/23) note the following fire protection components:  The building would have a fire pump room and a fire equipment room.  Three Knox boxes are proposed, with one near the entry court on the Buckeye Road side of the building and two on the Shasta Street building side—one adjacent to the garage entry and the other near the transformer room in the northeastern corner of the building footprint.  A fire department connection would be located northeastern corner of the building footprint near the transformer room. The above fire protection components are subject to review and approval by the City and would be a standard condition of Housing Component approval. There is one existing fire hydrant located near the project component site, across Buckeye Street at the corner of Buckeye Street and Shasta Street (Plan Sheet C-1.3, 12/23/22). The Housing Component proposes to install two new fire hydrants: one at the southwest corner of the subject site near the manager’s unit on Buckeye Street; and one at the northeast corner of the subject site near the transformer room on Shasta Street (Plan Sheet G003, 10/6/23). The final location and number of hydrants would be reviewed and confirmed by the Fire Marshal. Fire flow tests performed on April 21, 2023 for the Housing Component indicate a flow rate of 2,550 gallons per minute (gpm) with a residual pressure of 20 pounds per square inch (psi) and a static psi of 63 gpm (at 143 Buckeye Street) (written communication ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 122 of 148