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8.A. - Page 160 ATTACHMENT3 1. Municipal Code Chapter 3� {Subdivisior�s) 5ection 30.�18 B allows exceptions to street width requirements if a Planned Develapment {PD) Permit has bee� approved or if the exception is in the public interest. �_ A Planned De�elopment (PD) Permit has been approved far the Project, thereby allowing for an exception tv the otherwise applicable street width r�quirement for the Project's private roadway. 3_ The propased private roadway meets emergency ��hicle (public safety} access and general circulation needs af the Praject. Tha City Traffic Engineer has also reviewed the RKH Engineers and Fehr & Peers traffic reports and memos (Finger Draft Ef R Appendix G) and agrees that the praposed 22 foat wide private roadway will meet necessary access and circulation needs of the Project. 4. The raadway is not necessary for neighborhood or general citywid� circulation needs; rather it is a private roadway intended to ser�e only �ine property owners and their gues#s. The roadway is thus consfdered proportionally sized ta this small nine unit infill de�elopment. By contrast, most Redwood Shores Praj�c#s have 25 foot wide, two-way private roadways because th�y serve as a network af neighborhood streets for larger de�elopments that generate greater vehicle demandl trafFic �olumes. 5. Based on all of the foregoing findings, it is in the public interest ta grant an exception to the City's Private Raadway Engineering Standard that would otherwise apply to the Project to permit the 22-foot wide, one- way street with a four foot wide rolled curbl paver pedestrian pathway raised 3 inches that is incorporated within the 22 foot dimension, as proposed by the Project, and such modification wifl be cansister�t with regional and community planslpolices outlined i� the Finger Project Draft EIR, pages 173-179. (b) The City's Private Roadway Engineering Standard, requiring a 25�foot wide, twa-way roadway and 5-foot sidewalk, is not part of or required by Chapter 30 (Subdivisions) of the City's Municipal Code, and therefore, the City Council's determination to modify the Private Roadway Engineering Standard for the Praject daes not constitute an Exception to the requirements of Chapter 3A, as pro�ided by Section 30.69 of th� Code. Nnnetheless, to #�e extent that the modification vf the Pri�a#e Roadway Engineering Standard may be construed to require ar� Exception under Section 30.69, the City Council hereby finds that: 1. The property is of such shape or size, or is afFected by such tapographical conditions, or is subject to such title limitations of record that it is impossible ATTYIR�S0.22641APPROVING A VESTING TENTATIVE MAP(FINGER AVE) REV:Q7-02-12 VR Page 4 of 18