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I I I I . 3) Hear public comment; '----' Mayor Hartnett called upon the appellant. David Wilson, Wilson Development, applicant and appellant, introduced the owners of the property, Emanuel and Doris Borg, 1424 Valota Road, and Mary Carlson, 1436 Valota Road, Redwood City. Mr. Wilson said the staff and Council had been very polite and open minded throughout this process. He described the intentions of the owners to build nine single, detached, two-story family homes on their combined properties, to provide owner occupied housing with a Homeowners Association and improved aesthetic quality. Mr. Wilson described the neighborhood meeting he and the owners sponsored to discuss the proposed development. He described the mitigation measures taken to lessen the impacts on the neighbors in terms of privacy including eliminating windows that overlooked homes on Valota, increased landscaping, and described the distances between the neighbor's houses and their lot lines. Mr. Wilson told the Council he and the owners were eager to work with staff and more than willing to make suggested changes; however, they could not build fewer than nine homes, could not eliminate the second story, nor reduce the size (1600- 1700+) of the homes. Mr. Wilson distributed a document showing a redesign of the site with a curved inner street, more landscaping and greater architectural features. '----' Mayor Hartnett asked if the property owners wished to speak and they declined. Mayor Hartnett then called upon those in the audience who had submitted speaker's cards. Paul Wieseman, 1900 Goodwin Avenue, thanked Councilwoman La Berge for visiting the subject property and with the neighbors on Sunday, March 24, 1996. Mr. Wieseman voiced his opposition to the project stating the twenty feet tall, 2-story homes would overwhelm their neighbors, and Unit No.5 loomed over his house and took away his privacy. He showed pictures of the subject property and his, and other homes in the neighborhood. Mr. Wieseman said the project was overdeveloped, there were discrepancies in the developer's blueprints, the homes would be too close to the creek and he worried about its structural integrity, and the project was out of character with the surrounding one story homes. He advised he did not receive notification of the developers neighborhood meeting to discuss the project. He invited all the Council Members to come to this property and see how his property would be impacted by the project. In response to Council questions, Mr. Wieseman said if Units 5 and 9 were single story homes, he would not object to the development. '----' MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Regular Meeting Minutes Page No. 151 March 25, 1996 Page 8