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6.3B Page 10 1. Rescission of Project Approvals and Adoption of MND. The Parties agree that the City shall rescind all of the approvals of the Project, which rescission shall include the rescission of the City's adoption of the MND for the Project. 2. Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report. The Parties agree that the City shall prepare and certify an environmental impact report ("EIR ") for the Project pursuant to CEQA before it may approve the Project. The Project and the EIR shall be considered by both the City Planning Commission and the City Council All the Parties hereby acknowledge and agree that, by signing this agreement, the City is not incurring any obligations to the Project applicants and proponents, or to McGowan, that it does not already have under the law. a. Topical Areas for Evaluation. While the EIR must include all required sections, including but not limited to the project description, project objectives, and environmental setting, in terms of evaluation of environmental impacts the Parties agree that the EIR need only evaluate the following potential environmental impacts related to the Project: (i) aesthetics, (ii) cultural resources, (iii) Cordilleras Creek impacts relating to stormwater runoff, geology, water quality, biology, erosion, and bank stability (including impacts to the potential restoration of the creek related to the City's allowance of development within 25 feet of the creek bank pursuant to section 32.12 of the City's Municipal Code), (iv) traffic safety, (v) parking, and (vi) land use/neighborhood compatibility. The Parties agree that the Initial Study associated with the MND sufficiently evaluated the Project's remaining potential impacts and that, absent the identification of new potentially significant impacts due to Project changes or changes in circumstances or new information not known at the time of this Agreement, the EIR need not evaluate potential impacts other than those listed in (i) through (vi). b. Range of Project Alternatives. The EIR shall consider at least the following alternatives to the Project, designed to be potentially feasible and to meet most project objectives: (i) development on the Project site consisting of four or five single - family dwellings plus accessory dwellings as allowed under the existing R -1 (Residential — Single - gamily) District zoning standards without a Planned Development Permit or Use Permit; (ii) development on the Project site with a Planned Development Permit under Article 46 of the Redwood City Zoning Code that includes residences set back a minimum of twenty -five feet from the top of the bank of 2