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Concern #3. Community want One Broadway Plaza to prepare a new Environmental Impact Report (an EIR), and to conduct additional Traffic Studies. The PC did not recommend OBP prepare a new EIR, or prepare new traffic studies. Instead the PC was satisfied that traffic assumptions in the 2003 EIR were sufficient. Because the 2003 EIR does not address traffic impacts from over a dozen newly -approved or anticipated apartment projects near OBP, this all but insures Main Street, Broadway, Washington, Civic Center, Seventeenth, and streets in at least six adjoining neighborhoods, will be negatively impacted for decades into the future. Request #3: Developer to prepare a new Environmental Impact Report, to address traffic impacts from other recently approved, and anticipated development projects, which surround One Broadway Plaza. Concern #4. Community sought Additional Traffic Protections for the Logan, Lacy, Downtown, and Willard Neighborhoods The PC recommended only the Logan neighborhood receive traffic protections, leaving Lacy, Downtown, and Willard neighborhoods without these benefits. Request #4: Developer to include Lacy, Downtown, and Willard to the list of neighborhoods to receive traffic mitigation protections as part of his project. Concern #5. Community requested an Increase in Traffic Mitigation Fees for neighborhoods previously identified to receive these benefits as described in the expired 2003 Development Agreement. The PC agreed with Staffs recommendation to increase the original traffic mitigation fee (approved in 2003) from $200,000 per neighborhood to $300,000 per neighborhood. Although the increase appears substantial, the extra $100,000 may not even account for inflation, and would not significantly contribute to the design or construction of much - needed neighborhood traffic mitigations. The PC also failed to address a timeline to plan, design and construct these improvements. Request #5: Developer to: * Increase individual neighborhood traffic mitigation fees from $200, 000 to at least $500, 000 • Create a timeline when the Developer will plan, design and build these improvements * include Traffic Mitigation Fees as part of a new Development Agreement "Developer and City will work directly with each of the impacted neighborhoods separately, and together, to prepare an inter -related Traffic Mitigation Plan Concern #6. Community asked that Park Development Fees for OBP remain within the impacted neighborhoods. The PC agreed, and recommended that park development fees be available for use in the impacted neighborhoods. Unfortunately the PC did not address where and how these dollars will be spent. Request #6: Development Agreement to include the required park fees, and also discuss where and how these park fees are used. This insures the Developer pays the required park fees, and also that City and Developer work with the affected neighborhoods to identify important community -sought park projects. 5