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�. P �2 <br /> ,�;,,, make these impacts unavoidable. The impacts could be avoided only by relocating the <br /> ��r towers and lines, which is not feasible. Relocation is not within the control of the City or <br /> projed sponsor, would be prohibitively expensive and would require multiple approvals <br /> at altemative locations by bodies other than the City, which are unlikely to be <br /> obtainable. <br /> B. Industrial and Airoort Compatibilitv <br /> Potential Impact: Comments received as part of the preparation and <br /> ceRification process of the FEIR indicated that Project has the potential to significanUy <br /> impact Airport operations, specifically aircraft landings and take-offs. As a result, the <br /> Planning Commission determined that mitigation measures were necessary. <br /> Mitigation: Real estate disclosures conceming proximity to an airport as <br /> included in the Project conditions of approval are necessary to mitigate airport <br /> operations impacts to less than significant levels [Mitigation 12-1]. <br /> Findings: Implementation of this mitigation measure will reduce airport <br /> operations impacts to less than sign�cant levels. <br /> C. Proiect Densitv and Heiaht in Relation to Adiacent Residences <br /> Potential Impact: The density and height of the larger residential <br /> buildings of the Project would differ from the mass, scale and height of adjacent <br /> residential developments and present visual compatibility, light and glare and shadow <br /> impacts on those developments (EIR Impact 4-2). <br /> Mitigation: The Project is being approved pursuant to a City of Redwood <br /> City Precise Plan which requires a carefully-drafted set of design principles, including <br /> setbacks, tapering heights, floor area limitations, buiiding spacing and surface and <br /> fapade detailing, which will significantly reduce perceived height, mass, scale and <br /> intensity of the Project and its visual and shadow impacts on adjacent properties <br /> (MMRP Mitigation 5-1-2). Project lighting would be designed to confine illumination to <br /> the Project site, minimizing light affecting adjacent residences; cut-off fixtures would be <br /> used for outdoor areas, and screening would be provide from sensitive adjacent uses <br /> (MMRP Mitigation 5-4). <br /> Findings: The identified mitigations for light and glare are feasible and <br /> would reduce light and glare impacts on adjacent residential properties to a less than <br /> significant level. The Precise Plan design principles are a feasible mitigation measure, <br /> but even under the Precise Plan the mass, scale, height and intensity of the Project, its <br /> general visual compatibility with existing adjacent residential development and its <br /> shadows would remain potentially significant impacts. These impacts could be made <br /> insignificant only by drastically reducing the height, number and size of residential <br /> buildings in the Project, which wouid render it infeasible because the remaining number <br /> of units would not be sufficient to recover the cost of infrastructure and other <br /> improvements required to develop the site and because the number of affordable and <br /> other new residential units would be drastically reduced, preventing realization of a <br /> 1289\0211 7 9 2 7 8.2 2 <br /> Atty/ResWReso.1470 . <br /> 052004 <br />