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56 The Commercial Component’s impacts, both individually and cumulatively, were confirmed by the Historic Resources Evaluation to have no impact. Therefore, this Commercial Component is consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. b. The Downtown Precise Plan program EIR (pp. 7-33 through 7-35) concluded that there is a high potential for new development facilitated by the DTPP to disturb unrecorded archaeological resources, which represented a potentially significant impact. Mitigation Measure 7-1 of the Downtown Precise Plan program EIR requires that in the event that any deposits of prehistoric or historic archaeological materials are encountered during project construction activities, all work within an appropriate buffer area shall be stopped and a qualified archaeologist meeting Federal criteria under 36 CFR 61 shall be contacted to assess the deposit and make recommendations, possibly including complete avoidance of the resources, in-place preservation, and/or data recovery. The impacts were found to be less than significant with mitigation. The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR (pp. 7-21 through 7-23) concurred with the DTPP EIR conclusion and includes Mitigation Measure CR-3, which restates Mitigation Measure 7-1 from the DTPP Final EIR with minor text revisions (“clarifying amendments”). In addition, the DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR adds the following requirement (p. 7-21): “The CRMP [Cultural Resources Management Plan] also requires that a cultural resources plan be prepared as a standard condition of project approval for all development projects in the amended DTPP area.” The proposed Commercial Component would not cause a potentially significant impact to any known (recorded) archaeological resources in the project vicinity. Although no resources have been identified, the potential exists for subsurface deposits, so a cultural resource plan will be prepared and Mitigation Measure CR-3, and the CRMP requirement, will be required as conditions of project approval. This would reduce the potential impacts of the Commercial Component on archaeological resources to a less-than-significant level. The Commercial Component is consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. c. A records search confirmed that there are not any known cemeteries or human remains in the DTPP area (DTPP EIR p. 7-7). The DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR (p. 7-23) concurred with the DTPP EIR conclusion and found the impacts to be less than significant because of the requirements of PRC Section 5097.98 and Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 are sufficient to reduce this impact. The circumstances within the DTPP have not changed, so the proposed project component would not cause a potentially significant impact as there are not any known cemeteries or human remains in the project vicinity. However, should any human remains be found during on- or off-site improvements associated with the Commercial Component, PRC Section 5097.98 and Health and Safety Code Section 7050.5 as well as the City of Redwood City Cultural Resources Management Plan guidelines and DTPP Plan-Wide Amendments program SEIR Mitigation Measure CR-3 (as discussed in item [a] above) require that construction activities be halted immediately and the County coroner and a professional archaeologist be consulted to evaluate the significance of the find. If the remains are Native American, the Native American Heritage Commission is required to be notified. These measures, which shall be required as conditions of project approval, would reduce the potential impacts of this component on human remains to a less-than-significant level. The Commercial Component is consistent with the analysis in the EIR/SEIR because it would not create new impacts or increase impacts and there is no new information of substantial importance for CEQA purposes. CONCLUSION With regards to the issue area of Cultural Resources, 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) feasible mitigation measures contained within the EIR/SEIR would be applied to the project component and render its specific impacts would be less than significant. For these reasons, the cultural resources impacts of the proposed Commercial Component would be consistent with the impacts identified in the EIR/SEIR and this project component does not require additional environmental review under CEQA Guidelines section 15183. ATTY/RESO.0031/CC RESO CEQA GUIDELINES (901 EL CAMINO REAL) REV: 04-22-25 VR Page 56 of 148