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City. The patients of the Project could also be a source of potential business. ( Increase to Number of Jobs. The economic development goals and policies of the Redwood City General Plan include creating more job opportunities. The Project may promote such goals and policies by potentially generating additional jobs for local residents, and by potentially generating spin- off /secondary biotechnology employment in the area. b. Signifi Unavoidable lrx act and overridin Considerations. Prot Impacts The following impacts were determined by the EIR to be impacts directly resulting from the Project. The letters and numbers assigned to each impact below correspond to the letters and numbers assigned to each impact in the SE R. Housing Impact (no Impact - number - g iven in SEI : Project impact on City's residentsljob ratio and on citywide demands for new housing units. The 1996 Midpoint Technology Park Eli , upon which the SEIR for the Project was based, concluded that the potential effects of the overall Technology Park development on the City's residents /job ratio and on citywide demands for new housing units (including demands for affordable housing units), represented a significant unavoidable impact. No mitigation specific to these impacts was adopted, and an associated Statement of overriding Considerations was adopted by the City in 1 997. The Project would reduce the overall Midpoint Technology Park employment total (assuming full buildout ) and the associated overall residents job ratio impact, but not to a less than significant level. Mitigation: No mitigation specific to this impact was adopted, and an associated Statement of overriding Considerations pursuant to CE QA Guidelines 1 12 . b , Significant nv r nmerr 1 Effects Which Cannot be Avoided if the Proposed Project is Implemented, was adopted by the City. No additional mitigation is required. Finding} A Statement of overriding Considerations was already adopted by the City for the office use at the Project site. In that statement, it was determined that while job- related housing was not proposed to be constructed o n or near the Project, nor were in -lieu housing fees required, implementation of the City 3 s Housing Element with regard to Citywide Housing Program Strategies would assist the City to provide additional housing, including affordable units. Nonetheless, impacts to the residents /jobs ratio and housing demand would remain significant and unavoidable. Overriding Consideration: For the Midpoint Technology Park EIf , the Planning Commission found that the environmental, economic, social and other benefits of the project override the significant impact described above. That Statement of rd