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09/09/2013 Mitigation: Mitigation 7-12. To mitigate the project's contribution to the cumulative impact at the intersection of Veterans Boulevard and Woodside Road, an additional eastbound through lane would need to be added. (Woodside Road is considered north-south and Veterans Boulevard is considered east-west.) With these improvements, the level of service (LOS) at this intersection would improve to LOS E during the PM peak hour. Although LOS E still exceeds the City of Redwood City LOS standard, the LOS under Cumulative With Project conditions would be better than that under Cumulative No Project conditions. Widening of Veterans Boulevard between Chestnut and Woodside Road is included in the City's Traffic Impact Fee Program (TIF) project list. Accordingly, the applicant's payment of its Traffic Impact Fee in effect at time of payment and issuance of a building permit would mitigate the proposed project's contribution to the significant cumulative impact. However, because this improvement would require Caltrans approval, the City of Redwood City cannot ensure the construction of this improvement. Finding: Implementation of Mitigation 7-12 (applicant's payment of its Traffic Impact Fee) would mitigate the project's contribution to the cumulative impact to a /ess-than- significant level, but because this improvement (an additional eastbound through lane) would require Caltrans approval, the City of Redwood City cannot ensure the construction of this improvement. Therefore, without implementation of the proposed mitigation, the impact would be significant and unavoidable. Facts in Support of Finding: Implementation of Mitigation 7-12 would reduce the projecYs contribution to the cumulative traffic impact at the Veterans Boulevard/Woodside Road intersection to a less-than-significant level through the projecYs payment of its City Traffic Impact Fee to add an eastbound (Veterans Boulevard) through lane. However, the City cannot guarantee in advance that Caltrans will approve the mitigation, so the impact is currently considered significant and unavoidable. These facts are described in Draft EIR chapter 7 (Transportation, Circulation, and Parking) on pages 7-1 through 7-70, Draft EIR appendix 21.3 (Supplemental Transportation Information), and Final EIR appendix A (Supplemental Traffic Information), which are hereby incorporated by reference. Impact: Impact 7-13: Cumulative With Project Impact on Woodside Road/Bay Road Intersection. Under Cumulative With Project conditions during the PM peak hour, the intersection would degrade from LOS D to LOS F, and the proposed project could contribute up to 46.2 seconds of critical delay to the intersection. Mitigation: Mitigation 7-13. To mitigate the project's contribution to the cumulative impact at the intersection of Woodside Road and Bay Road, an additional westbound through lane would need to be added and the shared through/right-turn lane converted to a right-turn lane. (Woodside Road is considered north-south and Bay Road is considered east-west.) Traffic from the proposed project could add up to 46.2 seconds to the PM peak hour delay at this intersection over Cumulative No Project conditions (see Draft EIR Table 7.16); other Cumulative growth could add up to 3.4 seconds to the delay over Near Term No Project conditions. The proposed project would contribute its fair share to a mitigation fund established to pay for the cost of this improvement (estimated, based on the Draft EIR, to be 93 percent) at the time of issuance of a building permit or, if the ATTY/RES0.2901/STANFORD EIR CERTIFICATION RESO.#15294 REV:09-10-13 VR MUFF#100 Page 35 of 55