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7.A Attachn-gage 15 A New General Plan for Redwood City Environmental Impact Report Findings and Statements Required by the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq) I. Introduction On behalf of the City of Redwood City (the "City"), and pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA"), the Planning, Housing, and Economic Development Department of the City has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Report (the "FEIR" or the "Final EIR") for the New General Plan for Redwood City Project. The Project is the adoption and implementation of the City's New General Plan,published as the Redwood City Draft General Plan and dated November 23, 2009 (hereafter, the"New General Plan"). The City is the lead agency for the FEIR. The City's Planning Commission has reviewed the FEIR and the proposed New General Plan and recommended that the City Council certify the FEIR and approve the New General Plan. The City Council has independently reviewed the FEIR and New General Plan, and considered the Planning Commission's recommendation, and in the exercise of its independent judgment, makes the following findings of fact and statements of overriding considerations (collectively, the "Findings") to support its certification of the FEIR and approval of the New General Plan Project. These Findings contain the City Council's written analysis and conclusions regarding the Project's environmental effects, • mitigation measures, alternatives to the proposed Project, and the overriding considerations which, in the City Council's view,justify the approval of the Project despite its potential environmental effects. These Findings are based upon the entire record of proceedings for the FEIR, as described below. Section 65300 of the California Government Code requires each city and county in California to adopt "a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the county of city, and of any land outside its boundaries which in [its] planning agency's judgment bears relation to its planning." The New General Plan is intended to guide the City's development over a 20-year planning period that would terminate in 2030. It establishes goals, policies, and implementation programs for the long-term physical development, quality of life and public safety in the community. Redwood City is located in the San Francisco Bay Area on the San Francisco Peninsula in Southeastern San Mateo County. The area covered by the New General Plan for the City consists of the corporate limits of the City as well as lands within the City's "sphere of influence," as determined by the Local Agency Formation Commission ("LAFCo") of San Mateo County. The approval necessary for implementation of the Project is the adoption of the New General Plan by a resolution by the City Council. ATTY/RESO/RESO.2055/ATTACHMENT1.A 1 10/6/10