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2;et (11"' -A /1:4 MINUTES NAY 3, 1WP HOUSING CONCERNS RI' S COI IMITTEE 7 : 00 A.M. CITY MAPAGEEIS OFFICE CITY HALT REDWOOD CITY MEMBERS PRESENT : Oh .: n no 1 Paul C . L ec -l e, , William Floyd , Tony C or z a e s , Mary W . Henderson , Sylvester McGuire , Martin F . Mohr , Eugene Mori ;uchi. , Robert E . Norris , and Frederick A . Soderer . MEMBERS ABSENT : None . STAFF PRESENT: City Manager Pales , Planning Director Scbroeter. , and Housing Aide Ransom . VISITORS : Louis Knowles , P . 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Maxim K . Rice , P. 0 . Box 295 , Redwood City Myron Filencs , 410 Park Street , Redwood City Kathleen Ma! any , 1026 Vera Avenue , Redwood City James C . Harris , Jr . , 2904 Kipling Street , Palo Alto Chairman Keckley called the meeting to order at 7 : 04 A. M. Housing Aide Ransom introduced 1r . James C . Harris , Jr . , a contractor planning a low-income housing project at 1315 Hancock Street in the neighborhood bounded by Gemco, El Camino , Woodside Expressway , and the SPRR railroad tracks . Mr . Harris had been scheduled to discuss his project with the Cont ittee at its previous meeting, when lack of time made that impossible . Since then, his application for rezoning his lot "R-5 " (Multi -Family—High Density ) had come before the Planning Commission on April 25 . (The area is currently zoned "+ER" -- Industrial Restricted . ) iEar . Harris withdrew his application without prejudice after Planning Department staff recommended that it be dcnied , but that the Planning Commission hold a public hearing on the question of rezoning most of the residentially-developed portion of the neighborhood to a multi -family residential district . In making that recommendation , staff noted that the area contains some 93 living units , one -third in single-family residences , two-thirds in apartments , all of them constructed prior to 1964 , when much of the area was in a residential zoning classification . After the Woodside Expressway sliced through the area , cutting the current neighborhood off from the rest of the City , the residential area was rezoned for office and industrial use . "All of the single-family dwellings and some of the multi -family structures are more than twenty years old with most of them nearing thirty years in age , " staff wrote . "Little by little , the deteriorating structures are being removed , leaving vacant land . " Mr . Harris said that he was planning some fifteen two- and three-bedroom townhouses on the lot with underground parking . The townhouses would be leased to the San Mateo County Housing Authority for use in the "Section 23" rent subsidy program . The lease would be ten years with an option to renew for another ten years . With 153 units currently occupied in Redwood City , the Housing Authority provides some of the City ' s lowest cost housing , using federal MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS CO vi MITThE NAY 3 , 1972 PAGE 1 OF i.