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36 I 14, , :mss,_ . ., 5 Announcements Mayor Weymouth announced that 'a Bicentennial locomotive called the "Spirit of '76" will stop at the Redwood City station on Monday, June 23, 1975 at about 11 :00 a.m. and urged citizens to get details from the newspaper and attend the event. Mayor Weymouth also announced that a public hearing will be held at Sequoia High School and urged those interested in the proposed closing of the school to attend. Appeal from the denial of the Planning Commission of application to amend the Zoning Map to rezone property from R-4 (multi-family District to R•4-0 (multi-family office) District at 1304 Jefferson Avenue (Charles it and Lilliam Hockaday) Mayor Weymouth declared open at 7 :50 p.m. the public hearing on the subject appeal. City Clerk -Hildebrand reported that the Affidavit of Notice of Hearing is on file in her office and that no written communications have been filed. In response to question, Planning Director Schroeter ad- vised that the applicant, the staff and members of the Planning Commission were agreed that staff had advised what avenues might be available to the applicant in order to use the subject property for a professional office but had not led the applicant to believe his appli- cation for rezoning would be granted. Chuck Hockaday, the applicant, 1924 Goodwin, agreed he was not guaranteed zoning, distributed a statement pre- viously distributed to the Planning Commission 'and com- mented-oh his statement. Discussion followed and Mr. Hockaday replied to questions and commented concerning his preference for the site and his desire to upgrade the present structure and convert it for use as a real estate office . In response, to question, Mr. Schroeter advised that the Planning Commission has an assignment from Council to review-all professional office zones in the City, observing that the review has had low priority because of the cur- rent General Plan review. Gil Waite, 624 Adams, asked whether or not the proposed rezoning would affect his taxes. Mr. Schroeter advised that the matter is entirely up to the County Assessor, however, since the benefit would be only to the rezoned property, presumably there would be no increased valua- tion of Mr. Waite ' s property, and, similarly, since the proposed rezoning would probably not be considered detri- mental to the neighborhood, it is unlikely Mr. Waite could expect a decrease in valuation. -3- Reg.Mtg. 6/16/75