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• Bob Norris said that .he felt that both his statement and hers said about the same thing . But he said that he thought the Planning Commission didn ' t have the background material that the Housing Concerns Committee has concerning housing . Mary Henderson said that the Committee was trying to get something in as a recommendation that can be put into a legal document before the General Plan will be available --namely into the Redwood Shores General Plan . She said that anything the Committee recommended for that Redwood Shores General Plan theoretically should -be something it would recommend to the General Plan for the whole City . Gene Moriguchi asked what percentage of the population of the whole City is low/moderate- income . Housing Aide Ransom said. that , by federal guidelines , low•/moderate -income people comprise about a third of the City . Ken Schroeter said that the Committee was generating the input to the Housing Element for the whole City . A piece of that will be accelerated with the Planning Commission for a segment of the City--Redwood Shores . But this piece of the Housing Element would fit back into the Housing Element for the C i tr as a whole . Furthermore , that chunk could be prepared for any part of the City , he said . The struggle would come in implementation . The Planning Cor_ri ssi on can ' t guarantee that the whole social complex can follow through , he said . Fred Soderer pointed out that the City has a General Plan to work with , and it has a zoning ordinance . Doesn ' t State law require that the two agree , he asked . Ken Schroeter said that they didn ' t have to agree until the first of the ?jeer . Mary Henderson said that that v3.r%c..o4%fl in v 1uar.4 been extended 1.1 ;w-v. ._ t July I . Ken Schroeter said that assigning a specific number or percentage of ].owj moderate -income units to new developments might make building new housing an impossibility in the Shores ; if strictly adhered to . On the other hand , if the new low/moderate -income units were distributed equally throughout the City , relatively few might go into the Shores . Nonetheless , the policy would be the same , he said , to provide for low/moderate -income housing where. possible and distribute it widely . He suggested that the City might try to see if private enterprise would subsidize low/moderate-income housing . . Max Rice pointed out that the conservative figures outlined in the paper presented by Land for People three week ' s previous had indicated that a little • more than a third of the City was low/moderate- income , and that those households were competing for 8 percent of the housing which was "affordable" by thee 1 . Lou Knowles said that he had heard people argue that their neighborhood was "mixed ineome" - -a s he felt was proposed by the two statements- -because i t had housing valued at between $30 , 000 and $100 , 000 . He said that the Housing Concerns Committee of all City committees had the most housing data available to it , and consequently that its recommendations should be precise . Neil Smith of Mobil Oil Estates , Ltd . , said that they agreed that there should be a broad range of housing types and values in Redwood Shores . Mobil has suggested :changes in--the General Plan of Redwood Shores with that in leind . Their suggestion for a small initial low/moderate-income housing project would provide "an early and significant steps" in that direction , he said . Any such policy MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITThE DECEMBER 13 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 6 •