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• were trying to create ethnic and poverty ghettos . Ms . Henderson said that , because it had been stricken from the Housing Element , the "civil rights section should be reintroduced as an obstacle--that people were not going to comply with state and federal civil rights legislation . Chairman Keckley asked what power the Housing Element has . City Manager Fales answered that if it doesn ' t adopt a housing element , the County will be breaking state law , but that the only sanction would be the possible cut-off of federal funds . This would apply only to the County, he said , and not to the City , if the City went ahead and adopted its own housing element , as planned . Ms . Henderson suggested that , in such a situation , joint city-county activities might be jeopardized . City Manager Fales said that if the Housing Element isn ' t adopted and carried through on a countywide basis , its purpose is, hurt . Should Atherton , for example , decide not to participate , the whole purpose of the law will be subverted . And if the State continues to get no response or a negative response to its require- ments for local compliance , then it may pre -empt zoning from the cities in order to eliminate those who don ' t want to accept the responsibility . I Lou Knowles said that it might be good for Redwood City to speak out forcefully about the changes in the Housing Element . Otherwise , he said , Redwood City might be used as a "dumping ground" for the County ' s low/moderate-income housing needs . The changes in the Housing Element , he said , were "a farce , " and he thought they had been made so that when the cities wrote their own housing elements they could write weak ones and still show them in accordance with the County Housing Element . The Committee turned its attention to the change in Goal 3 , Action D : "Zoning should be used in ways which encourage variety and mix in housing types and . provide adequate sites for housing persons of all income levels (changed to ' at various income levels ' ) in each jurisdiction (changed to ' in each housing market area ' ) . . . " Ms . Henderson said that "housing market area" has no legal meaning , while "jurisdiction" does . Mr . Soderer said that he had thought community" - --for which " area" had been substituted elsewhere in the report--had been broad enough , but that even "community" had made several jurisdictions nervous . Ms . Henderson said that "housing market area has no legal meaning , while " jurisdiction" does . She said that the change was a "cop out" from the intent of scattering low/moderate-income housing throughout the area . She said that she thought that every attempt should be. made to keep all of the cities as well as the County involved in solving the housing problem, and she suggested that the HCC recommend to the City Council that it protest the changes as "being opposed to what we ' re trying to achieve . " City Manager Fales said that the change from " of all income levels" to "at various income levels" seems to suggest that the "various levels " are to be defined by where the housing is to be found- -that Redwood City is the area for low/moderate -income housing . Mr . Moriguchi said that if the changes were left in , Redwood City might have to shoulder the whole burden of providing low/moderate - income housing for its housing market area , with Belmont and San Carlos perhaps saying , " let Redwood City do it . " MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE MARCH 22 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF i+ \ •