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funds to subsidize the difference between the quarter of income paid for rent by the renter and the Iri'rket value rent . But apartment units being built or recently finished for the Housing Authority in the Redwood City sphere of influence are primarily studio or one -bedroom units for the elderly . Mr . Harris ' would be the first family-unit project in Redwood City . Mr . Harris said that his project would not be a non-profit project . No lessors to the H-nusing Authority are non-profit groups . Mr . Harris i.s said that he was asking for an "R-5 " zoning , not because he meant to make use of the minimum floor-space allowances of that zoning , but to enable himself to construct annpie floor--space while somewhat limi. iing open space . He said that he thought this was feasible because of the mini -park located just across Hancock Street . He said that he had been able to purchase the 21 , 450 square-foot lot for $305000, about half the going price for similar lots else - where in the City . But his decision to build low- income housing on the lot was not a sudden one , he said . He had been looking for lots suitable for such housing for some years , but this was the only one that he could find . Higher cost lots made it difficult if not impossible to qualify for federal programs , he said . Thus , high land cost throughout the City had stymied plans for low-income housing projects in the past . Harris said that he had been born and raised in the neighborhood , and that since his boyhood , no new businesses or industrial operations had located there , despite the 1964 zoning of the area for office and industrial . On the contrary , industrial enterprises seemed to be slowly leaving the area , he said . The plot that he is planning to build on, he said , had been the site of a warehouse which the owners had decided not to replace after it burned down . Mrs . Henderson said that she knew that the citizens in that neighborhood were worried about it and wondered if it shouldn ' t just be phased out of residential use . Mr . McGuire said that if the area were to become a commercial-industrial area there would be a need to relocate those people who live there now . Planning Director Schroeter said that even with the rezoning commercial-industrial , nothing had happened to the neighborhood , that there had not even been any prospects for new businesses . City Manager .tales said that it was interesting that the parcel was where it was - - that in such an area was the only place that unsubsidized private investment could find land cheap enough to develop for low-income housing . He said he thought it provided the committee with a good problem. Newly appointed committee member Mr . Norris said that he thought that it might be a "typical situation . " Mr . Moriguchi said he thought it showed that for low-income housing "you ' ve got to go into spot zoning . " He thought the proposal for this neighborhood might be good as a "stopgap" but that it shouldn ' t start a precedent that low-income housing would be located in already impacted low-income areas . He didn ' t want to perpetuate a ghetto, he said . Chairman Keckley said that planners were "arrays going to have a problem" accepting spot zoning , but that if a change in housing is going to be made , "maybe this is going to be a golden rule that may have to be broken . " But he wondered if the Council and the Committee would be willing to deal as easily with such a proposal in a higher income neighborhood if people were "coming out of the woodwork" to • oppose it . - MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE MAY 3 , 1972 PAGE 2 OF�/T