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7.A. - Page 35 project will be required to pay mandatory park in-lieu fees and school impact fees, which were adopted to ensure that these services will accommodate growth in the community. The project site is served by the City of Redwood City Police and Fire departments. No changes are proposed to roadways that will require emergency response personnel to modify their traffic patterns. Furthermore, the DTPP EIR (pp. 8-2 through 8-21) concluded that there would be no significant impacts on fire%mergency medical service, parks and recreation, schools, or solid waste service resulting from the DTPP or projects built under it. The DTPP EIR (p. 8-3) did, however, identify a potentially significant impact regarding emergency response and evacuation due to traffic congestion on local roads. Mitigation 8-1 directs the City to implement signal detectors to provide priority traffic signal timing for emergency response vehicles, which would reduce this impact to a less-than-significant level; this program is underway. The Redwood City Fire Department has noted the following project requirements (Plan Check Response #1-- Redwood Towers, Korth Sunserz Hagey Architects, April 25, 2013, pp. 4 and 5), which shall be required as conditions of approval for the project: (1) The project will require its own independent fire sprinkler system, standpipes, back-up water supply, and fire pump. (2) A new fire hydrant will be added along the Middlefield Road project boundary to comply with distance requirements for Fire Department connections to the fire sprinkler/standpipe systems. (3) The project will require (a) engineered smoke control/removal systems; (b) automatic and manual fire alarm systems, including emergency radio operations for Fire Department personnel and other emergency service personnel; (c) a fire control room and fire equipment rooms; and (d) an emergency generator. The above requirements are indicated and described on project plans (Plan Sheets FLS-1 and FLS-2, 4/26/13) and in the Redwood Towers Fire Protection Basis of Design (The Fire Consultants, Inc., April 24, 2012) prepared for the project and subject to City review and approval. Summary of Impacts Potentially Less than Significant Less than Significant With Mitigation Significant No Im act Incor orated Im act Im act XV. RECREATION — Would the project: a) Result in an increased use of e�sting neighborhood and regional parks or X other recreational facilities such that substantial physical deterioration of the facility would occur or be accelerated? b) Include recreational facilities, or require the construction or expansion of X recreational facilities, which might have an adverse physical effect on the environment? Documentation a. The Downtown area has a varzety of open spaces that allow for recreational opportunities. Examples include a small plaza at Broadway andArguello, and a parklet at Main/Marshall/Spring, which provide shade and greenery; Courthouse Square, which is actively programmed with dancing, ice skating, music, and other events; and Sequoia High School, which features a seven-acre park and ballfields. All of these recreational facilities are within about a I S-minute walk from the project site. In addition, the developer is required to pay a park in-lieu fee, which will be used by the City to create new parkland as needs arise over time. Also, the DTPP EIR (pp. 8-14 and 8-I S) concluded that there would be no significant parks and recreation impacts resulting from the DTPP or projects built under it. The proposed project is in compliance with all applicable DTPP regulations, and as a result, no additional impacts on recreation are anticipated. Furthermore, the amendments would not result in arry new land uses that would require new or additional recreational facilities. In fact, the replacement of Depot Circle with Depot Plaza would result in the net gain of a usable public open space amenity for the downtown. As such, the proposed amendments will not result in arry anticipated impacts. b. The project will include a private courtyard and two roof decks, but does not require the construction or expansion of public recreational facilities. As a result, the project will not have an adverse physical effect on the environment related to recreational facilities. Also see (a) above. 26