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7.3.B. - Page 19 <br /> Section 2 <br /> Proposed Downtown Redwood City CBID Boundaries <br /> The CBID generally follows the boundaries of the Downtown Specific Plan that was crafted via <br /> substantial community facilitation and input and is bounded roughly by Brewster, Veterans, <br /> Maple and Pennsylvania /EI Camino Real. The parcels selected to be included in the CBID form a <br /> unique retail, commercial, office and government business core that has long been recognized <br /> and identified by the Redwood City community as a pedestrian friendly retail and commercial <br /> central business district or "Downtown ". Adjacent parcels not included within the CBID are <br /> generally residential neighborhoods or commercial strip automobile oriented corridors that <br /> serve the general public not engaged in the Downtown center area. <br /> Keeping the assessed parcels within the District clean, safe and attractive will increase <br /> pedestrian traffic and consumer activity and increase sales, business transactions, and <br /> employment and visitor satisfaction. There are two benefit zones in the proposed Downtown <br /> Redwood City CBID. These zones are shown on the District Map in Appendix 2 of this Report. <br /> In the summer of 2013, a group of property owners met and formed the Downtown Redwood <br /> City CBID Steering Committee. The original function of the Steering Committee was to review <br /> the historic boundaries of what was considered to be "Downtown Redwood City ", which has <br /> evolved over the past few decades. The boundaries set by the Steering Committee coincided <br /> with not only the Downtown Redwood City Specific Plan mentioned above, but also with <br /> improvements that had been funded by the former Redwood City Redevelopment Agency. <br /> These improvements included special paving for sidewalks, pedestrian signage, district signage, <br /> landscaping, lighting, Courthouse Square, the new Downtown anchor project which included <br /> the movie theatres and parcels that had a common land use that represented the core of retail, <br /> office, commercial, County seat, City public seat, theatre /entertainment and related uses. <br /> Any blocks excluded from the CBID boundaries (one apartment building parcel between Maple <br /> and Walnut between Hilton, Stambaugh and the one block of El Camino Real north of <br /> Broadway), were based upon the fact that the land uses of these blocks had very little <br /> relationship to the core of Downtown and it was believed by the Steering Committee that the <br /> special benefit services that would be provided would be of minimal value, at best, to these <br /> excluded parcels. <br /> The Cal Train station parking lot has also been excluded directly west of the Cal Train station <br /> due to the fact that the special benefit services are only provided west of the rail tracks along <br /> Broadway, and not to any other parcels on that side of the tracks. Cal Train currently provides <br /> maintenance and security services for this parking lot and the special benefit programs funded <br /> by the CBID will not benefit this parking lot. <br /> 11 <br />