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ffo Staff Analysis Watry Proposals for the Jefferson Garage Background To stimulate business downtown, the City' has planned to facilitate a project that includes a private development of 85,000 SF of retail and restaurants, a 20- screen multiplex cinema (the Cinema Project) and certain downtown public parking facilities. One of the public parking facilities (the Jefferson Garage) is a two -level underground public parking garage with approximately 595 parking spaces to be located under the Cinema Project on Block One .2 The construction of the Jefferson Garage requires the relocation of an underground storm drain culvert out of the area to be occupied by the Jefferson Garage. Additional surface public parking will be constructed on Block Two , and it is planned that in future years Block Two may also be developed, possibly with underground parking. The City has certified an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and entered into an Amended Disposition and Development Agreement (the DDA) with a private developer (Innisfree) to build the Cinema Project and the Jefferson Garage. The Cinema Project and the Jefferson Garage are being designed and built as an integrated project as the Jefferson Garage will also serve as the foundation for the Cinema Project. The design team, including the developer's architect and structural engineer, is in the late stages of design development for the combined projects, including the specifics of the design of the Jefferson Garage and how the structure will integrate with the structure of the Cinema Project above it. In order to meet a scheduled opening of the Cinema Project in 2005, the City and developer are on a "fast- track" implementation schedule and the City is proceeding quickly with acquisition of the non -City owned portions of Block One and relocation of the occupants of those properties. The relocation of the underground storm drain culvert is also currently under construction. The Watry Proposals for the Jefferson Garage At the end of a joint study session of the City Council, the Planning Commission, and the Architectural Review Committee, to review the streetscape around the The term "City" is used generically to include both the City of Redwood City and the Redevelopment Agency. 2 The block bounded by Broadway, Jefferson, and Middlefield Road. 3 The block bounded by the Caltrain railroad track, Jefferson, Middlefield, and Winslow. 1