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126 As a result, the impact would be less than significant. No new or more severe impacts on recreation are anticipated in the EIR/SEIR, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. b. The DTPP SEIR found that new development would be required to comply with the City’s Parks Impact Fee and Parkland In-Lieu Fee, which would allow the City to purchase parkland, make park improvements, and provide recreation facilities to meet the demand generated by new development. The subsequent development of these improvements would undergo environmental review and therefore the SEIR found the impact would be less than significant. The project component would provide a publicly accessible open space plaza (Chrysanthemum Plaza) and the 10,151- square-foot Creek Park Mitigation Area, which would be integrated with overall project component construction. The Commercial Component does not intend to develop recreational facilities and therefore would not have an adverse physical effect on the environment related to recreational facilities. The proposed project component must comply with all applicable DTPP standards and other City requirements (such as park fees, dedication and open space and landscape requirements) relevant to parks and recreational facilities. As a result, the impact would be less than significant. No new or more severe impacts on recreation are anticipated in the EIR/SEIR, and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. CONCLUSION With regards to the issue area of Recreation, 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 Commercial Component specific impacts would be less than significant. For these reasons, the recreation 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 program EIR (p. 4.16-15) concluded that with adopted Building Community Element policies and implementation of General Plan programs, future development facilitated by the Focused GPU would be assured to meet its parkland dedication requirements, including Development Impact Fees (DIF) and Quimby Ordinance funding mechanisms. These parks and recreation funding mechanisms would offset the incremental increase in demand for park facilities from implementation of the Project. Therefore, future development of public parks in the Planning Area plus individual project payment of City adopted park in-lieu fees and/or dedication of parkland to the City in fee title and free of encumbrances would ensure that impacts on parks and recreational facilities is less than significant. As explained in the Focused GPU program EIR (pp. 4.16-1 through 4.16-9), the city has a variety of recreational opportunities, including over 52 acres of community parks, over 29 acres of neighborhood parks, and over eight acres of mini parks. In addition, there are over 52 acres of special use parks and over 44 acres of school parks. All of these recreational facilities are available to Redwood City residents. The city also has over 701.59 acres of open space area, which is land owned by the City or another public agency, located within City limits and having some recreational value but primarily serving the purpose of preserving natural resources. The parks closest to the Housing Component site (within .5 miles) are Linden Park at Linden Street and Park Street, Jardin de Niños at Middlefield Road and Chestnut Street, Main Street Dog Agility Park at Main Street and Beech Street, Roselli Gardens at Pennsylvania Avenue northwest of Maple Street, Fleishman Park at Locust Street and McEvoy Street, and Union Cemetery Park on Woodside Road north of Hess Road. The project would include an approximately 1,150 square-foot (SF) entry court on the ground floor on Buckeye Street; an approximately 4,970 second-level podium courtyard; and an approximately 590 SF sky deck on the fifth level (Plan Sheets G001, LC1, and LC2, 10/6/23). In addition, the project would include secured onsite bicycle storage adjacent to the ground-level entry court, which would hold up to approximately 112 bicycles in 16 double-decker racks. Spaces would also be available for a number of e-bikes. A bike “fixit” repair station would also be provided for residents or visitors. Bike racks for visitors would be located near the main pedestrian entrance on Buckeye Street (Plan Sheets A002 and A100, 10/6/23). The Housing Component would be required to comply with all applicable General Plan policies and programs relevant to parks and recreational facilities, and with Chapter 18, Article XVI and Chapter 30, Article XII of the Municipal Code, to the extent applicable, pertaining to Parks Impact and Quimby Act fees for the new 100 dwelling units. ATTY/RESO.0031/CC RESO CEQA GUIDELINES (901 EL CAMINO REAL) REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 126 of 148