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7.A. - Page 254 �: �/oodside Rd./Bay Rd. Intersection (Existing Plus Project); 3. Impact 7-5: Woodside Rd./Broadway Intersection (Near Term Plus Project); 4. Impact 7-6: Woodside Rd./Bay Rd. Intersection (Near Term Plus Project); 5. Impact 7-11: US 101 Freeway Segments (Existing Plus Project ); 6. Impact 7-12: Veterans Blvd./Woodside Rd. Intersection (Cumulative with P roj ect); 7. Impact 7-13: Woodside Rd./Bay Rd. Intersection (Cumulative with Project); 8. Impact 7-14: Woodside Rd./Middlefield Rd. Intersection (Cumulative with P roj ect); 9. Impact 7-18: Marsh Rd./Scott Dr. Intersection (Cumulative With Project); 10. Impact 7-19: Freeway Segments (Cumulative With Project); B. Air Quality Impacts: 1. Impact 8-1: Air Quality (Temporary Construction-Related) Impacts; 2. Impact 8-2: Operational Emissions Increases; and C. Historic Resources (Ampex sign, Warnecke plaza and fountains and 425 Broadway building) Impacts: 1. Impact 14-1: Historic Resources (Project and Cumulative) Impacts Final EIR The City's EIR consultant also prepared a Final Environmental Impact Report for the Stanford in Redwood City Project (Final EIR). The Final EIR contains minor text corrections and written responses to comments from responsible agencies, interested parties and the public provided during the 45 day public review period on the Draft EIR. City staff received comment letters from the California Department of Transportation, San Mateo County Department of Public Works, Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition, Sierra Club, and ten community members. The City's Historic Resources Advisory Committee (HRAC) also made recommendations to the Planning Commission on the Cultural and Historic Resources Chapter of the Draft EIR. The HRAC believed that the Ampex sign, Warnecke fountain and plaza, and the 425 Broadway building are historic resources of aesthetic, educational, cultural, and architectural significance to the citizens of the City under Redwood City Municipal Code Section 40.3. Thus, the HRAC concluded that the three resources have special meaning to the community and therefore their removal would constitute a significant unavoidable impact under DEIR Section 14.1 (Cultural and Historic Resources Chapter). In addition, the HRAC recommended revising the DPR rating of the three separate resources related to the Ampex campus to Status Code 5 such that these resources are recognized as historically significant to Redwood City. The proposed resolution concurs with the HRAC recommendation. Additional consideration should be given to the fact that the Applicant, and the Cultural Resources Survey dated January 2009 contend the three aforementioned features are not historically significant. Therefore, should the Planning Commission agree with the Applicant no Statement of Overriding Consideration would need to be included on this issue. There was no significant new information in the Final EIR as none of the input received identifies new impacts or changes the analysis or outcomes of the EIR. The mitigation measures contained in the EIR are incorporated into the Precise Plan for the Project to avoid or substantially lessen significant environmental effects. Therefore, no further