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8.0 Ex�i�H�3 and the relative lack of downtown offce space. By changing the mix of proposed new office and retail uses in this manner, the modified Downtown Precise Plan would be expected to more effectively encourage investment downtown and better produce a more vibrant and robust economy in Redwood City. In addition, the increased historic resource protections offered by the modified Downtown Precise Plan would be expected to better achieve the City's goals of encouraging and promoting the preservation of the City's historic resources, and creating a visually appealing and memorable Downtown through the restoration and re-use of historic buildings, while preserving the Downtown's historic character. In sum, because the modified Downtown Precise Plan would not increase the nwmber or severity of any of the anticipated significant effects of the proposed project described in the EIR, would reduce the severity of certain environmental effects, and would better achieve the City's goals and objectives for the downtown than the plan described as the project in the EIR, the City declines to adopt the Downtown Precise Plan described as the project in the EIR, and instead adopts a modified version of the Downtown Precise Plan that incorporates the changes described as Alternatives 4 and 5 in the EIR (referred to in these Findings as the "Project"). V. Statement of Overriding Considerations. Pursuant to Public Resources Code Section 21081 and Section 15093 of the CEQA Guidelines, this City Council adopts and makes the following Statement of Overriding Considerations regarding the remaining significant unavoidable impacts of the Project, as discussed above, and the anticipated economic, social and other benefits of the Proj ect. I The City finds and determines that: (i) the majority of the significant � impacts of the Project will be reduced to less than significant and acceptable levels by the mitigation measures described in the EIR and approved and adopted by these Findings; (ii) the City's approval of the Project will result in certain significant adverse environmental effects that cannot be avoided even with the incorporation of all feasible mitigation measures into the Project; and (iii) there are no other feasible mitigation measures or feasible Project alternatives that would avoid or substantially lessen the remaining significant environmental effects. The significant effects that have not been mitigated to a less than significant level and are therefore considered significant and unavoidable are: • Impact 7-2: Impacts of Development on Properties that Contain Historic Resources • Impact 9-1: Project Impact on El Camino Real/Whipple Avenue Intersection • Impact 9-2: Project Impact on EI Camino ReaUJefferson Avenue Intersection S:1RES01.UT[ONS1Reso. 2092 CL=QA Pindings for DPP Ezhibit B.doc 56 012011