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- Jim Fales said that he thought using the planning process and the• Planning . Commission-City Council relaEionship was the correct procedure . While there is a General , Plan for Redwood Shores , he said , there is no such plan for the rest of the ' City . Though "we are scrambling to complete it ,=' , that process must ' • include more sophisticated elements for the entire community , he said . That ' s - why he _has been emphasizing completion of the Housing Element for the who]ee community . There were two alternatives , he said : the Committee could adopt 'Mary Henderson ' s statement and deliver it to the Planning Commission , leaving the Planning Commission to initiate action ; or the Committee could do something . more specific with respect to Redwood Shores , much like what was suggested by • Max Rice in his letter to the Committee . . (Max Rice , of the staff of the Land for People organization , wrote a memorandum to Committee members on November 17 , a copy of which is appended . ) Rice ' s scenario , City Manager Fales said , is mixed up with the County Housing Element . If his figures are correct and sensibly put together , and you come up with a three-to-one ratio for low/moderate-income units in Redwood Shores , then the question of who ' s going to live in those units comes up . Because of the distance to public facilities , the chances are that the low/moderate- income people who live in these units will not be from Redwood City . The needs of those who are in the City would still have to be attended to . There ' s nothing wrong with building those units , he said . It merely depends on what your objectives are . REGIONAL HOUSING RESPONSIBILI`T'IES Mary Henderson said that all of the residents of Redwood Shores - -despite their income --are likely to be pec_aie who did not live in Redwood City before , so that the whole program is a regional project in housing . Jim Fales said it was necessary to decide which is the primary and which the secondary objective . He suggested it would be very - disappointing if the primary objective was to assist those low/moderate- income people who reside in the community, but Redwood Shores would end up providing low/moderate-income housing for people who don ' t live in the City now . • Mary Henderson said that she thought that Mr . Fales ' statement was an important reminder that low/moderate-income housing in the Shores is in no way a solution to the housing needs of Redwood City : She said that it was herown feeling that if any housing was going to be put in Redwood Shores that low/moderate-income housing should be included . But it was important to recognize that the Committee was on the dual track again . Jim Fales asked how San Carlos could be got to do the same as was being discussed for Redwood Shores . Gene Moriguchi said that putting low/moderate-income housing in Redwood Shores could tie in with whatever the City is going to do with redevelopment . There would have to be someplace for displaced •people , . he said . He suggested carefully . coordinating whatever the City Council does as a redevelopment agency with whatever development is going on in Redwood Shores . But he thought that MINUTES HOUSING CONCERN►S COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 22 , 1972 PAGE 4 OF 6 •