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The City has adopted Mitigation Measures 41-1 and 41-2, identified on page 41-3 of the Redevelopment EIR, to ensure potential cultural resource impacts associated with buildout of the Second Amendment area are reduced to less than significant and New Mitigation Measures 1 through 3, identified on pages 3-12 through 3-16 of the Initial Study, to ensure potential cultural resources impacts associated with the proposed Project are reduced to less than significant. Implementation of these measures will minimize any adverse impacts that could occur to subsurface cultural resources. Because adverse cultural resource impacts will be avoided with implementation of these mitigation measures, no significant cultural resource impacts will occur with site redevelopment. HAZARDS AND HAZARDOUS MATERIALS (Section VII) SIGNIFICANT EFFECT Impact The Franklin Street Area Plan EIR evaluated the potential impacts associated with historic site contamination and the use of hazardous materials in the existing commercial operations. Construction activities, including excavation and grading of site soils, were determined to cause the release of toxics and hazardous materials that exist in the soil and/or groundwater of contaminated parcels. These construction activities were determined to adversely affect construction workers and others in and around the Project Site exposed to the hazardous materials. The EIR also identified the potential for residents to be exposed to toxics and hazardous materials in the long-term. The EIR concluded that the hazardous materials impacts associated with redevelopment of the Project Site would be considered significant. The City considered the merits of the Redevelopment Plan in light of the significant hazardous material impacts during the approval process for the Plan. The proposed Project will not include any changes in the previously evaluated redevelopment activities that will cause any new significant hazardous material effects or substantial increases in the severity of previously identified hazardous material effects. However, the Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration did conclude that in addition to documented and potential contamination related to underground tanks and existing operations on the Project Site, there are documented sources of groundwater contamination in, on, and under properties in proximity to the Project Site.l These sources of contamination may result in significant impacts to the Project Site, unless such contamination is appropriately remediated. Impacts could include risks such as: risk to workers during site development, risk of contamination of groundwater underlying the Project Site, and risk to future residents from exposure to soil and groundwater contamination. Finding The Redevelopment Agency Board Qnds that changes or alterations have been incorporated into the Project which mitigate or avoid the significant hazardous material impacts to a point where clearly no Phase 1 and 2 Environmental Assessment, RMC Lonestar Site, Redwood City, California, Aquifer Sciences, Inc., March, 1997; Phase I Environmental Assessment Franklin Street Development Site, Redwood City, California prepared by Uribe Associates dated May, 1998; First Quarter 1998 Groundwater Monitoring Report Sequoia Station Retail Center, prepared by Einarson, Fowler & Waston dated April, 1998; and Second Quarter 1998 Groundwater Monitoring Report Sequoia Station Retail Center, prepared by Einarson, Fowler & Watson dated July 1998. FRANKLIN STREET PROJECT -10- Findings RD99-21