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Veterans Memorial Senior Center/YMCA Project 22 Addendum #2 City of Redwood City November 2025 less than significant level with mitigation pursuant to MM NOI-1.2 from the 2019 EIR (excerpted below).24 2019 EIR Mitigation Measure: 2019 EIR MM NOI-1.2: Mechanical equipment shall be selected and designed to reduce impacts on surrounding uses to meet ambient noise conditions at the nearest residential land uses during both daytime and nighttime conditions. A qualified acoustical consultant shall be retained to review mechanical noise as these systems are selected to determine specific noise reduction measures necessary to comply with the City’s noise level requirements. Noise reduction measures could include, but are not limited to, selection of equipment that emits low noise levels and/installation of noise barriers, such as enclosures and parapet walls, to block the line-of-sight between the noise source and the nearest receptors. Alternate measures may include locating equipment in less noise-sensitive areas, such as indoors or the rooftop of the buildings away from the building’s edge nearest the noise-sensitive receptors. Like the original project, the modified project would include mechanical equipment on the rooftops of the buildings and within mechanical equipment rooms adjacent to the pool. The modified project would also implement 2019 EIR MM NOI-1.2; therefore, the modified project would not result in new significant impacts or substantially more severe mechanical noise impacts than disclosed in the 2019 EIR. Project-Generated Traffic Noise The 2019 EIR noted that a significant impact would occur if traffic due to the original project would permanently increase ambient levels in the vicinity by three dBA Community Noise Equivalent Level (CNEL). Based on the number of estimated trips that would be generated by the original project and noise modeling that was prepared for the 2019 EIR, it was determined that the noise level increase (due to project-generated traffic) at residences near the project would be two dBA or less. Therefore, the 2019 EIR concluded that the original project would result in less than significant impacts related to traffic noise.25 The 2025 Transportation Study Update shows that the modified project would result in only nine additional vehicle trips in the weekday AM peak hour and only seven additional vehicle trips in the weekday PM peak hour compared to the original project. Further, as the Valota Road driveway would not be constructed under the modified project, all vehicles entering and exiting the on-site parking lot would utilize the driveway entrance on Madison Avenue. 24 City of Redwood City. Draft Environmental Impact Report - Veterans Memorial Senior Center/YMCA Project. SCH# 2016112041. June 2019. Page 119. 25 Ibid. Pages 118 to 119. ATTY/RESO.0111/CC RESO CONSIDERING AND APPROVING AN ADDENDUM TO THE FINAL EIR (YMCA PROJECT CEQA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 11-06-25 VR