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15 the Commercial Component is consistent with the EIR/SEIR and no additional CEQA analysis is required. 920 Shasta Street Component: Previous CEQA Analysis and Purpose of CEQA Guidelines 15183 Consistency Checklist: On February 13, 2023, a program environmental impact report (EIR) was certified by the City Council of Redwood City (Final Environmental Impact Report for the Redwood City General Plan Amendments to the Housing, Public Safety, Built Environment, Building Community, and Natural Resources Elements, State Clearinghouse # 2022100449), pursuant to CEQA (“Focused General Plan Update program EIR”). The City Council adopted the Housing Element and Amendments to the Built Environment, Public Safety, Building Community, and Natural Resources Elements, amending the City of Redwood City General Plan (“Focused General Plan Update”). The Focused General Plan Update program EIR was a “programmatic” EIR in that it studied a plan for the future housing development within the City, rather than, for example, a specific development on a particular parcel for which a developer sought land use entitlements. (See Focused General Plan Update program EIR, pp. 1-3, 1-4, and 3-22; see also CEQA Guidelines Section 15168[a] [“A program EIR is an EIR which may be prepared on a series of actions that can be characterized as one large project”].) However, rather than provide general analysis regarding a broad policy document, the Focused General Plan Update program EIR provided in-depth analysis regarding potentially significant impacts, mitigation measures, and alternatives related to the City’s plans for future housing development within the City. This Consistency Checklist is to determine whether further environmental review beyond that which was provided by the Focused General Plan Update program EIR (from here on referred to as the “Focused GPU EIR”) is necessary. As noted above, CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 provides a statutory exemption from additional CEQA analysis for projects that are consistent with the development density established by existing zoning, community plan or general plan policies for which an EIR was certified, except as may be necessary to examine whether there are project-specific significant effects which are peculiar to the project or its site. The following consistency evaluation analyzes whether the 920 Shasta Street Housing Component is consistent with the development density and use characteristics established by the General Plan and Zoning. It also analyzes whether the 920 Shasta Street component is consistent with the analysis performed for the Focused GPU EIR and if that document adequately anticipated and described the impacts of the Housing component and identified applicable mitigation measures necessary to reduce project specific impacts. The General Plan Update EIR evaluated the Housing Element, including Program H1-6: Densities in Mixed Use Zoning Districts, which increased Mixed-Use Transitional density from 40 du/ac to 60 du/ac and increased Mixed-Use Transitional heights from 40 feet for residential to 60 feet. It also evaluated Program H4-4: Density Bonuses which called for ensuring the City’s density bonus ordinance is consistent with Government Code §65915. The maximum allowable residential density in the Mixed-Use Transitional District is 60 dwelling units per acre (Zoning Ordinance Article 55.3). Given the size of the 920 Shasta Street project site, the maximum allowable residential units/base density is 49 units. However, given that 920 Shasta Street project is a 100% affordable housing project that is within a very low vehicle travel area, it is entitled to a State density bonus in accordance with Government Code Section 65915(f)(3)(D) and the City cannot impose any maximum ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 15 of 148