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• . . . . • " tremendous political pressure" might push through the Shores development, before redevelopment got started . . . . • Jim Fales said that you can ' t force people to relocate in Redwood Shores . You • can ' t even buy a loaf of bread in Redwood Shores without a car, he said , and • • somebody relocating out there might wind up paying more in transportation than he was saving in rent . ' Housing Aide Ransom said that San Carlos was the sub-regional town with the largest responsibility for more lour/moderate-income . housing , comparing its • percentage of low/moderate -income households to that of Redwood City . But he • . pointed out that , if Redwood Shores were developed wholly as a middle- and upper- income community , the percentage of low/moderate-income households in Redwood City and San Carlos might balance out . Consequently, he cautioned against thinking that San Carlos could be expected to pick up any of Redwood City ' s responsibility for low/moderate- income housing . Ransom said that people in the lower income neighborhoods of Redwood City held jobs inside the County more often than those living elsewhere , more of whom commuted to Santa Clara County and to San Francisco . Consequently , he argued , while Redwood Shores might house low/moderate - income people from San Mateo , it would probably not draw people from further away , unless to the new employment opportunities it might offer . Also , he said , in his experience low-income families in Redwood City did have transportation , and in his neighborhood (the Middlefield neighborhood ) of Redwood City people had to drive- -or walk long distances- -to the market anyhow . Bob Norris said that this was the fi rst time he had heard that the Shores would be part of the regional housing solution . He said that he felt Redwood City was already carrying an excessive part of the burden . He said that , looking at its economic base , Redwood Shores can ' t provide low/moderate- income housing on a regional basis . He said that because of the land cost it couldn ' t even provide for moderate-income housing . He said that Redwood Shores will be willing to accept it share of low/moderate-income housing if the distribution is applicable to Redwood City as a whole . Gene Moriguchi said that he thought Bob Norris was misinterpreting his remarks . He said that Redwood Shores provides part of the regional inventory, both of upper and middle income housing as well as of low/moderate-income housing . If development continued as it has , he said , Redwood Shores would have no low/moderate- income housing . He said that his clients in East Palo Alto also must have trans - portation, since there are not many shopping conveniences there . Lou Knowles said that it was not a "program" that Max wrote , but a statement of need . Land for People had not adopted any recommendations other than those of the Citizens Alliance- -that 15-20 Percent of the housing in Redwood Shores be for low/moderate-income people . He said that it was hard to divorce housing from the need for other productive facilities in the Shores - -a lot of jobs at all income levels . The City should have responsibility to house part of the low/moderate- income work force that would come in for that , and it should come up with a calculus for measuring that responsibility . In this , the Shores will be a model for other •-newly developing communities , he said . ' MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COL2 iTTEE NOVEMBER 22 , 1972 PAGE 5 OF 6