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F A -I0 (v) Economic Imoacts to the Citv of Redwood Citv. The Project will provide significant market support to downtown businesses and will enhance the City's ongoing revitalization efforts. The Project will retain Kaiser's approximately 1,387 employoes in the City and will result in additional new employees. These employees are a primary source of potential business, patronizing restaurants, shops and cafes. Out - patient and in- patient visitors combing trips to the campus and Downtown are an additional source of economic activity for Downtown. In addition, Kaiser provides over one million dollars of annual charitable investment in the City. (vi) Increase in Number of Jobs. The economic development goals and policies of the Redwood City General Plan include creating more job opportunities. The Project would promote these goals and policies by ultimately generating approximately 134 additional jobs. The Higher Occupancy Scenario would promote these goals and policies by ultimately generating approximately 626 additional jobs. (vii) Smart Growth. The Project would encourage "smart growth" by intensifying the use of a currently developed site, thereby preserving open space. As discussed above, development would also be in proximity to existing housing and transit opportunities such as Caltrain. 4. The Mitigation and Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Kaiser Permanente Redwood City Medical Center Master Plan is attached to this resolution as Exhibit B and is incorporated and adopted as part of this resolution herein. The Program identifies impacts of the Project, corresponding mitigation, designation of responsibility for mitigation implementation and the agency responsible for the monitoring action. 5. This Council hereby finds and recognizes that the FEIR contains additions, clarifications, modifications and other information in its responses to comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the Project ( "DEIR ") and also incorporates information obtained by the City since the DEIR was issued. This Council hereby finds and determines that such changes and additional information are not significant new information as that term is defined under the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act, because such changes and additional information do not indicate that any new significant environmental impacts not already evaluated would result from the Project and do not reflect any substantial increase in the severity of any