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Veterans Memorial Senior Center/YMCA Project 25 Addendum #2 City of Redwood City November 2025 Utilities and Service Systems The 2019 EIR determined that existing utilities (i.e., water, sanitary sewer, storm drainage, wastewater treatment systems) had adequate capacity, and that there would be sufficient landfill capacity and potable water supply to serve the original project. However, the 2019 EIR noted that cumulative projects (including the original project) may be required to replace older sanitary sewer lines to reduce rainfall infiltration and reduce the peak wet weather flow in the utility system.28 The 2022 Addendum concluded that the modifications to the off-site traffic calming improvements would not result in any new impacts to utilities and service systems.29 Following the certification of the 2019 EIR and adoption of the 2022 Addendum, the City prepared the Sanitary Sewer Capacity Master Plan (Master Plan) in November 2023. The Master Plan provided an updated overview of cumulative wastewater flow projections and sanitary sewer capacity in the City and, similar to the findings in the 2019 EIR, shows that the sanitary sewer system has adequate capacity during dry weather but experiences deficiencies during wet weather. The Master Plan identified capacity improvements to the sanitary sewer system to address these cumulative deficiencies and reduce rainfall infiltration during wet weather to be implemented as additional development occurs in the City. Like the original project, the modified project would construct new lateral connections to existing utility lines adjacent to the site. Although the modified project would result in a slight increase in the square footage of the YMCA building compared to the original project (i.e., an approximately four percent increase), the overall square footage of the development (including both the VMSC and YMCA) would be similar to what was assumed in the 2019 EIR. Therefore, the utility demand for the modified project, including its contribution to the cumulative sanitary sewer flows, would be similar to the original project. As described earlier in Section 3.1.4, the modified project would be responsible for paying a fair- share fee as a Condition of Approval towards the cost of sewer improvements downstream from the site to address cumulative peak wet weather flow, consistent with the findings of the 2019 EIR. The City would construct the sewer improvements, including the identified Master Plan improvements. Construction of these exempt improvements would not cause any new significant or more severe significant impacts than those previously identified in the 2019 EIR, as the 2019 EIR contemplated that cumulative buildout of the area may require these improvements to reduce impacts related to rainfall infiltration and cumulative flows, and the modified project proposes to pay its fair-share towards the improvements to reduce its contribution to this cumulative impact to a less than significant level. The City would install the sewer improvements prior to the completion of the modified project. For these reasons, no new significant impacts or substantially more severe utility impacts would result from implementation of the modified project compared to what was disclosed in the 2019 EIR. 28 City of Redwood City. Draft Environmental Impact Report - Veterans Memorial Senior Center/YMCA Project. SCH# 2016112041. June 2019. Pages 175 to 179. 29 City of Redwood City. Addendum to the Environmental Impact Report for the Veterans Memorial Senior Center/YMCA Project. September 2022. Page 6. ATTY/RESO.0111/CC RESO CONSIDERING AND APPROVING AN ADDENDUM TO THE FINAL EIR (YMCA PROJECT CEQA) - EXHIBIT A REV: 11-06-25 VR