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before the Redevelopment Agency Board that the Project, as revised, may have a significant environmental effect. Facts in Support of Finding The City has adopted Mitigation Measure 4F-I, identified on page 4F-7 of the Redevelopment EIR and Mitigation Measures 3-6 and 3-7 of the Franklin Street Area Plan EIR, identified on page 3-38 of the Initial Study, to ensure school protection impacts of the proposed Project are reduced to less than significant. With implementation of these measures, the EIR concluded that school impacts of the proposed Project would remain less than significant. School enrollment has increased in the Redwood City School District and the Sequoia Union High School District since 1995. The Franklin Street Area Plan EIR identified a district-wide enrollment of 8,407 students for the Redwood City School District and 6,668 students for the Sequoia Union High School District. Current district-wide enrollment numbers include 9,204 students for the Redwood City School District and 7,072 students for the Sequoia Union High School District. Student enrollment is projected to decline in the Redwood City School District after the year 2000 (Gardetto, pets. comm.). Although both of these school districts are generally at their capacity, a $44 million school bond measure was passed in 1997 that is intended to modernize existing facilities and provide additional classroom space to accommodate future growth (Gardetto, pers. comm.). Construction of new facilities is expected to commence in June 1999 for the Redwood City School District and some modernization has already occurred at the high school level. These planned improvements will help in accommodating any new students generated from the proposed Project. In addition, the Project developers will be required to pay school impact fees consistent with the requirements of Proposition lA. The proposed Project does not include any changes in the previously evaluated redevelopment activities that will cause any new significant school effects or substantial increases in the severity of previously identified school effects. The student generation anticipated with the proposed Project will be slightly less than anticipated in the Franklin Street Area Plan EIR because the number of residential units is less (506 vs. 527). No students are anticipated to be generated by the commercial uses. TRANSPORTATION/TRAFFIC (Section XV) SIGNIFICANT EFFECT hnpact The Redevelopment EIR evaluated the transportation/traffic impacts anticipated with redevelopment of the Project Site. The Redevelopment EIR concluded that buildout of the Second Amendment area would result in a net increase of 1,745 p.m. peak hour vehicles that would adversely affect 5 of the 11 intersections studied. These impacts were considered significant and unavoidable. The City considered the merits of the Redevelopment Plan in light of the significant and unavoidable transportation/traffic impacts during the approval process for the Plan. FRANKLIN STREET PROJECT -17- Findings RD99-21