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05/12/2014 status, disability, or ethnicity. These community outdoor places may include sidewalks and streets, parking lots and facilities, paseos and plazas, even privatized rooftops and courtyards, as well as Courthouse Square and Theatre Way. Encourage and nurture the emerging renaissance beginning along Main Street. Promote the re-use of existing buildings by one-of-a-kind local businesses. Provide these properties with a bit more flexibility in terms of permitted uses to support the evolving eclectic mixture of uses along the corridor. Retain the essential requirements for physical configuration that will further the street's identity as historic and pedestrian- oriented. General Plan Policies: Policy BE-3.1: Provide high-quality public streetscapes in all neighborhoods, particularly in locations where new investment in historic property renovation and infill development are desired. Policy BE-17.1: Accommodate outdoor cafes and similar neighborhood-serving uses in the public right-of-way as a means of promoting pedestrian activity and center vitality. Ensure that access and noise considerations relative to surrounding uses are sufficiently addressed. Policy BE-18.8: Provide the amenities and range of entertainment, shopping, and cultural offerings that will make Downtown a vital regional and local destination. Policy BE-18.9: Create a network of attractive, interesting public places and spaces that encourage walking and lingering through connections to Broadway, adjacent neighborhoods, transit, and EI Camino Real. Support the City's Vision that Downtown Redwood City is the heart of our city, the core center....0utdoor gathering spaces will continue to make Downtown community oriented; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDWOOD CITY AS FOLLOWS: 1. As the lead agency, the City of Redwood City has determined that the actions proposed in this Resolution are considered Categorically Exempt pursuant to Section 15304, Class 4 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) Guidelines. Class 4, Minor Alterations to Land, allows minor temporary uses of land having negligible or no permanent effects on the environment. ATTY/RES0.2975/CC SIDEWALK CAFE PILOT PROGRAM RESO.#15340 REV:05-05-14 JS MUFF#703 Page 2 of 3