RecDoc 2026-002924 Development Agreement 901 El Camino Real

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and DTPP Amendment requests simultaneously. Throughout 2020 through 2021, the City Council conducted several study sessions and considered multiple potential projects at a high level and identified which projects should be reviewed and considered for General Plan and DTPP Amendments as applicable as a project under the Gatekeeper process ("Gatekeeper Projects"). On October 12, 2020, and later on May 24, 2021, pursuant to Redwood City Municipal Code Chapter 18, Article XI (Adoption and Amendment of General Plan), the City Council initiated .General Plan Amendment and DTPP Plan -Wide Amendment proceedings in anticipation of six Gatekeeper Projects in the DTPP boundary area and two Gatekeeper Projects located outside the DTPP area. At this time, the City Council selected the Property and a prior version of the Project to be one of the six initiated Gatekeeper Projects located in the DTPP. The Property is located within the Downtown Precise Plan ("DTPP") area in the Planning Community zoning district and is designated as Mixed Use -Downtown under the City's current General Plan. K. On June 26, 2023, the City Council considered and approved amendments to its General Plan and DTPP to accommodate the potential for additional office and residential development in the DTPP area, as informed by the proposed Gatekeeper Projects ("DTPP Plan - Wide Amendments"), and as indicated in City Resolution Nos. 16154 and 16155. Adoption of the DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments included but was not limited to amendments to the DTPP and the Redwood City General Plan, to revise certain development standards, guidelines and policies, including, but not necessarily limited to, those with respect to permitted or conditionally permitted land uses; streets and circulation (including pedestrian, bicycle, and vehicular circulation); building placement; building height and massing (including allowing the development of recreational rooftop structures within existing heigh limitations); parking requirements; historical resources; and open space. The proposed amendments would also allow for exceptions, at certain sites, to requirements concerning building placement, minimum heights, and stepdown zones. It was also contemplated that each Gatekeeper Project would thereafter request amendments to the General Plan and DTPP as relevant to each individual Gatekeeper Project's needs. L. While the Plan -Wide Amendments did not propose significant changes to the MAD Caps or an extension of the DTPP boundary, the environmental impacts of doing so were studied in anticipation of the Gatekeeper Projects. Prior to its approval of the DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments, on June 26, 2023, the City Council certified a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report to the DTPP Final EIR ("DTPP SEIR") by Resolution No. 16153, which analyzed the potential environmental impacts of the proposed DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments and included a CEQA analysis of the six Gatekeeper Projects on a programmatic level, including the subject Project. The City Council also approved and adopted a MMRP ("DTPP Plan -Wide Amendments MMRP") in connection with the DTPP SEIR, which requires project implementation of certain measures designed to reduce or avoid significant project impacts, including but not limited to the Developer's responsibility to the extent applicable to upgrade the water system, sanitary sewer system, and stormwater system, and to install recycled water infrastructure as part of the 901 EI Camino Real Project. M. Prior to or concurrently with the approval of this Agreement, City has taken numerous actions in connection with the development of the 901 EI Camino Real Project on the Property, and the development of the Affordable Housing Project at the Affordable Site, and has determined that the 901 EI Camino Real Project complies with the plans and policies set forth in the General Plan, Housing Element Update, and DTPP, as proposed to be amended. The City also ATTY/AGR/2025.085-901 EL CAM I NO REAL DA REV: 08-01-25 VR Page 4 of 48