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�. ��3 i . EXHIBIT A ` FINDINGS ON THE MARINA SHORES VILLAGE FEIR The following findii gs identify putential adverse environmental impacts and mitigation measures and s,�te related de�:terminations of the City of Redwood City conceming proposed develop�nent of Marina Shores Village. These findings are made with reference to the draft and final Environmental Impact Report for the Marina Shores Village Project certified by the Redwood City Planning Commission on July 8, 2003 (the "FEIR") and the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program for the Marina Shores Village Project and related Mitigation Monitoring Checklist (together, the "MMRP") approved concurrently with these findings. To avoid repetition and an unnecessarily lengthy document, these findings do not restate in full detail the analysis of impacts or descriptions of mitigation measures in the FEIR and MMRP, but instead identify the FEIR designation of the impacts discussed and the MMRP designations of mitigation measures, so that further information on those impacts and mitigation measures is incorporated by reference and available to any reader. With respect to certain impacts, each identified in FEIR section 17.6.2, the detailed FEIR discussion of the impact of the Initial Froject must be read in light of changes resulting from substitution of the Project, as discussed in section 17.6.2, in place of the Initial Project. Copies of the FEIR and MMRP are available in the office of the City Clerk. I. LAND USE The Project would have .the following potentially significant impacts on _ land use. A. Electric Transmission Lines Potential Impact: The Project would include residential development as close as fifty (50) feet to existing electric transmission lines, which wou�d result in residents having views of the transmission towers and hearing noise from the transmission facilities (EIR Impact 4-1, p. 4-27). Mitigation: View impacts would be mitigated by landscaping along the power line easement and at other vantage points in the project, by notice to prospective residents within 200 feet of the easement and by prohibiting residential towers within 100 feet of power lines or supporting structures and all residential structures within 50 feet of power lines or supporting structures (MMRP Mitigations 4-1, 5-7). Noise impacts wouid be mitigated by building features reducing interior noise to a specified City and State standard, pursuant to an acoustical study (MMRP Mitigation 13-1). Findings: The identified noise impact mitigation measure is feasible and would reduce potential noise impacts from the transmission towers to a level which would not be environmentally significant. The ident�ed visual impact measures are feasible, but even with those measures the visual impacts of the towers would remain — potentially significant. The height, size, location and extent of the transmission facilities 1289\02�7792782 Atty/ResdReso. 052004 1