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• 1 City Manager Fales explained that "planned spot-zoning is not longer. spot 1 zoning , " but becomes part of a policy for planned development . He said he , too , D was worried about the community reaction to planned spot zoning for low-income . housing elsewhere in the City . Mr . Gonzales said that he was " really worried" about the neighborhood as an existing low- income area . The kids there cut across the railroad tracks to get to Hoover School on the east , or must cross El Camino to get to Washington School nn the west . Both schools have no room for expansion , and if the whole neighborhood were developed lo;; -income multi -family , students might have to be bussed to school . He reminded Committee members that he had earlier voiced opposition to low- income developments on either side of Woodside Expressway in the Five Points area, and said that he would like to see proposals for other areas coming in as well as for these , so that people wouldn ' t accuse the Committee of perpetuating ghettos . Tyr . Harris said that there was nowhere else in the City where land could he found "at a good cost . " Mrs . Henderson told him that "that ' s why we ' re talking about subsidizing land cost . " Mr . McGuire said that the problem of perpetuating the ghettos is encountered whenever you "throw up another building there . " El Camino is the border betj., een the poor and the affluent he said , and when you cross it and propose low -income housing in more affluent neighborhoods , "you ' re going to have a lot of reaction from the status quo , " But that ' s where the fight is , he said . Housing Aide Ransom reminded the Committee that much of the 0E0 Poverty Target Area was on the west of El Camino , and that the area in which the San Mateo County Housing Development Corporation had verbal options on parcels for scatter-site low/moderate - income housing fell within that area and was not really breaking out of currently low/moderate -income neighborhoods . Lou Knowles said that he thought it was unfair to fight the whole question of how the City was going to meet the need for low-income housing " on this single project . " He said that owners were holding on to land zoned "R-4" and "R-5" speculatively "like bonds , " waiting to see if the open-space and parking requirements , which currently limit their units/acre possibility can be broken. Mx . McGuire said that any development will change the value of the :Land and those with the most power and friends in City government will likely have their way . Councilmen Henderson, Keckley , and Norris demurred . City Manager Fales said that the City must find out "if the people have the will" to go ahead with low-income housing . Mr . Norris said that the City needs a simple acceptance of low-income housing . He said he would like to see the Committee create a program to convince people of the need and feasibility of low-income housing . Housing Aide Ransom said that he thought the best opportunity to educate and persuade citizens about the need for low-income housing was through a concrete struggle to get some -low-income housing and that the Committee ought in its next few meetings get down to planning strategy for doing so . He summarized the discussion on the Harris project as having come to no resolution, but that the MINUTES HOUSING CONCERNS COMMITTEE MAY 3 , 1972 PAGE 3 OF 4