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10 visitors would be located near the main pedestrian entrance on Buckeye Street (Plan Sheets A002 and A100, 10/6/23). Housing Component building heights would be 59’-0” to top of the building parapet and would measure to 63’ to the top of the penthouse. The Mixed-Use – Transitional (MUT) zoning district establishes a maximum permitted height of 60’-0” with an additional 10’- 0” allowed for structures above the roof line (e.g. mechanical equipment, elevator enclosures). (Plan Sheets A200, A300, and A301, 10/6/23). Affordable housing developments may be eligible for a density bonus under State Density Bonus Law (SDBL) (Government Code Section 65915 et seq.) and Redwood City Municipal Code Section 32.19, which allows developers to exceed the maximum allowable density in the General Plan and Zoning Code and seek modifications of certain development standards if the development includes a certain number and type of affordable units. A concession is a modification that will result in identifiable and actual cost reductions needed to provide affordable housing. The number of concessions available to an applicant are limited and depend on the project proposed. A waiver is a modification that would otherwise physically preclude the construction of a development. There are no limits on the number of waivers an applicant may request. Cities must approve affordable housing density bonuses and must grant requested concessions or waivers unless the City can make written findings supported by substantial evidence that granting them would result in a specific adverse impact to health and safety, or in the case of waivers, a specific adverse and unmitigable impact on a historic resource or public open space. The Housing Component applicant (Abode Communities) has submitted a density bonus request to the City for unlimited density, five concessions and one waiver. As the Housing Component is a 100% affordable housing project that is within a very low vehicle travel area, it is not subject to any maximum controls on density.3 The requested concessions and waiver is as follows: (1) Three setback concessions to allow the Housing Component to exceed the MUT Zoning District’s minimum setback requirements: • Front Setback: The Housing Component is requesting to provide a front setback of 6’-0” as measured as an average setback from the property line to portions of the structure, with a minimum 2’ front setback at any point (compared to the required 6’-0” front setback measured from the property line to any portion of the structure) • Side Setback: The Housing Component is requesting to provide a side setback of 5’-0” as measured as an average setback from the property line to portions of the structure, with a minimum 2’ side setback at any point (compared to the required 5’-0” side setback consistently measured from the property line) • Rear Setback: The Housing Component is requesting to provide a rear setback of 15’-0” as measured as an average setback from the property line to portions of the structure with a minimum 2’ setback at any point (compared to the required 15’ rear setback measured from the property line to any portion of the structure.) (2) An open space concession to not meet the MUT Zoning District’s minimum open space requirements (125 SF per unit required, approximately 66 SF/unit proposed). 3 See Government Code Section 65915, defining very low vehicle travel area as an urbanized area where the existing residential development generates vehicle miles traveled (VMT) per capita that is below 85 percent of either regional or city VMT per capita and establishing that 100% affordable housing projects in such area shall not be subject to any maximum density controls. ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 10 of 148