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3 8. Description of Project 901 El Camino Real is a proposal to construct a commercial office development in Downtown Redwood City (the “Commercial Component”) and 920 Shasta Street is a proposal to construct an affordable housing development outside of Downtown (the “Housing Component”). The proposed development at the 901 El Camino Real and 920 Shasta Street sites will undergo separate, but potentially concurrent, entitlement consideration and public hearings as they are on different sites and have different applicants and separate applications. However, the projects are related by virtue of the fact that the 920 Shasta Street project represents the reasonably foreseeable outcome of 901 El Camino Real achieving compliance with the City’s Affordable Housing Ordinance (Zoning Code Article 29). In accordance with the Affordable Housing Ordinance, the developer for 901 El Camino Real, El Camino Real Holdings JV LLC, proposes to meet their project’s affordable housing requirements through land donation of 920 Shasta Street to Abode Communities, for the construction of affordable units. Because El Camino Real Holdings JV LLC intends to fulfill its affordable housing obligation by this land donation, the projects are related, but the subsequent development of 920 Shasta Street is a separate action being proposed by a separate applicant (Abode Communities). Accordingly, the City considers the two independent and physically separate development sites to be separate projects for entitlement considerations. However, given their interconnection, with respect to environmental review, out of an abundance of caution and in order to fulfill CEQA’s purpose of evaluating “the whole of the action,” a single environmental analysis evaluating the impacts of both projects was prepared. Because a Development Agreement and appropriate conditions of approval require that 901 El Camino Real fulfills its affordable housing requirements by donating the land at 920 Shasta Street for the purposes of constructing affordable housing, and the intended use of the land at 920 Shasta Street is known and being processed concurrently, 901 El Camino Real and 920 Shasta Street together constitute “the Project” for purposes of this CEQA evaluation. 901 El Camino Real Commercial Component: The commercial applicant proposes to demolish and remove all existing structures and surface parking and construct an approximately 311,860 square-foot (SF) commercial office building with approximately 305,225 SF for life-science research and development (“R&D”) and/or office space, and an approximately 6,450 SF “teen center/multi-purpose space” comprised of six levels plus a roof terrace (on level 7), over three levels of underground parking (Plan Sheets G0.02 and G2.01, 8/5/24; KM-ECR LLC, HGA Architects). The Commercial Component’s site includes the parcels at 901 El Camino Real, 947 El Camino Real, and 999 El Camino Real. These properties are currently occupied by an auto parts store, a former ice cream shop, a Mexican restaurant, and surface parking. Additionally, the project includes a proposed land swap with Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board (JPB). It would entail 2529 Broadway (currently being controlled by the project applicant) being swapped with a portion of the existing Transit Center parking lot (owned by JPB) and the Transit Center parking lot would become part of this component’s site. The existing Transit Center parking lot site includes surface parking, Little River Park (0.08-acres), and Arroyo Ojo de Agua, also known as Little River Creek. The Commercial Component’s site also includes a portion of California Street (proposed to be vacated). While no proposed tenants for the 901 El Camino Real project component have been identified, this Commercial Component may be occupied with R&D/Laboratory use at a ATTY/RESO.0028/CC RESO CEQA GUIDLINES (920 SHASTA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 3 of 148