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. . " -, prepare a traffic study, meet with the community and examine mitigation measures. They have been completed. - Senior Planner Passanisi described the four options presented by staff: I. Let stand the approved Architectural permit for the 4-story, 115 sq. ft. office building and attach mitigation measures as deemed appropriate; 2. Rescind the Architectural Permit and modify the building height and square footage to no more than 2 stories and 57,000 sq. ft. (essentially cutting the building area by one- half); 3. Rescind the Architectural Permit and impose a moratorium on the property to allow staff to develop a more limiting zoning classification that could allow only certain uses (retail nurseries, warehousing, etc.) on the site; 4. Rescind the Architectural Permit and change the Lido Specific Plan, Zoning, and General Plan to allow only residential uses on the site. Jim Daisa, Fehr & Peers Consulting firm, used slides to explain the results of the Traffic Study (on file in the City Clerk Department.) Mr. Daisa said his direction from the City was to prepare a Traffic Study that would evaluate or see if there were any significant unrnitigatable traffic irnpacts resulting from the proposed office building. Further, he was - directed to compare those impacts with the original plan of 640 dwelling units, which would represent build-out of the Lido Neighborhood with all residential units, to be consistent with all the other traffic analyses so incremental differences could be measured. Mr. Daisa showed slides listing Trip Generation figures, and explained that when employment of a proposed building is not known the industry standard is used, which is the square footage of the building is used. He said the zoning code allows for a maximum of 380 parking spaces for this size building, which is applied citywide, and an estimated 400-450 employees is the estimate for this site. Mr. Daisa provided "a brief summary of traffic impacts from a physical capacity standpoint. All the intersections on Redwood Shores Parkway will operate at a level of service of 'D' or better regardless of the land use." He said the "office building would not cause any intersection to fail or go to unacceptable service levels or exceed the City standard." He added that all freeway interchange junctions would be impacted by any and all uses on Redwood Shores Parkway. Mr. Daisa showed more slides showing "capacity levels from the drivers perspective, not a residents' impact measurement on service level, the delay a driver experiences going through an intersection or traveling along a segment of road" with all intersections and signalizations measured at a service level of 'D' or better. Mr. Oaisa said from a physical capacity concern "capacity is not an issue from the drivers standpoint", but said residents might have a different perception. He said there "is substantial capacity now and in the future on this four-lane road... Office use on this site generally has traffic in the reverse peak direction the further east you go on Redwood - Shores Parkway. It doesn't add to the peak outbound traffic going to the freeway and in REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING MINUTE BOOK NO. 56 NOVEMBER 17.1997 MINUTES Page No. 041 PAGE 10