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Saltworks Proposal- Transportation Group Summary Report (22 January 2010) 7A - ATTACHMENT NO.4 Page 1 0 Goal BE-31: Encourage developments and implementation of strategies that minimize vehicle trips and vehicle miles traveled. In order for the City to achieve these transportation and circulation goals, there are approximately 100 individual policies that provide guidance related to the goals. The overall goals and objectives of the Saltworks Transportation Plan, as paraphrased from the Applicant's Statement of Justification and supplemental materials, are: 1. Enhance overall connectivity of the City of Redwood City to the greater Bay Area region by improving regional access, mobility, and safety for both residents and commuters into Redwood City. 2. Provide for a balancing of local jobs and housing units linked to demographics, salaries, etc. to reduce vehicle miles of travel (VMT) and associate green house gas (GHG) emissions. 3. Provide a compact urban form that minimizes the need for single occupancy automobile trips and fully accommodates other modes of travel. 4. Design the land use and urban form to achieve a level of density to support an internal transit system and attract further investment in the external transit system. 5. Minimize travel distance and maximize travel choices for site residents associated with accessing employment, shopping, recreation, and attending to daily needs. 6. Minimize the impact of development on the surrounding road and highway systems. 7. Provide superior accessibility, connectivity, and mobility for non-auto oriented trips. 8. Build linkages that connect Saltworks and adjacent recreational opportunities to downtown Redwood City and within the Bayfront Area. 9. Work with transportation agencies to enhance the connection of the local transportation system to the regional system. In terms of the broad transportation goals, the project utilizes many of the City's stated transportation goals such as supporting the use of alternative modes, reducing single occupant auto trips, reducing regional VMT and GHG emissions, providing a permanent transit system, and creating a transportation management agency to implement transportation demand management. There are some areas where aspects of the project may conflict with specific policies such as reducing speeds and cut-through traffic on local streets (BE-29.2); avoiding conflicts between trucks, pedestrians, bicycles, and transit (BE-30.1); and maintaining truck access to the Port of Redwood City (BE-30.3). Where conflicts have been identified between the new Draft General Plan and the Saltworks application, they are called out in the following sections of this report. 1.5 EXISTING TRANSPORTATION SETTING The scope of the Tier One analysis is focused on the adequacy of the information contained in the Saltworks application and SOJ. However, it is useful to understand the current operations of the local and regional transportation network that would directly connect to, and serve, the proposed project in order to evaluate their ability to accommodate added traffic. The Redwood City new Draft General Plan provides a description of the existing conditions on the adjacent transportation network. Roadway and intersection operations are typically evaluated based on Level of Service (LOS), which compares the demand to the capacity of a roadway or the amount of delay-per-vehicle at an intersection. The new Draft General Plan included the Woodside Road and Whipple Avenue corridors as well as over 30 intersections throughout the City including key intersections adjacent to the US 101 corridor. In addition, the new Draft General Plan analysis evaluated US 101 between Marsh Road and Ralston Avenue. Based on the existing conditions 3