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. . I - - necessarily hitting the building. All kinds ofIanding accidents can happen.....Suffice it to say they are significant hazards. Student pilots....are obviously more at risk to being distracted and you should know that 25% to 30% of all the takeoffs and landings at the - San Carlos Airport are conducted by student pilots." Mr. Leuten showed an overhead transparency quoting excerpts of two federal aviation regulations 135.100 and 121.542, known as the "sterile cockpit rules", regarding the elimination of unnecessary distractions. Mr. Leuten described the difficulties of landing an aircraft, especially in crowded landing corridors. He said "pilots were busy enough without having to avoid buildings that don't need to be quite that high." Robert Odermatt, 39 Drury Lane, Berkeley, representing the Redwood Shores Business Center Design Review Board, consisting of 3 professional architects and planners, said the Board had been working with Electronic Arts team, and said it had been a most "enjoyable experience. We believe EA provides an exceptional opportunity because.....it consolidates 9 individuallots....into a consolidated business campus with only six major buildings......(The benefits are) an enhanced open space system, few buildings, quality landscape, integration of the public and private outdoor space, improved automobile and pedestrian circulation, a consolidation of parking and fewer points of ingress and egress.....and the protection of the residential community." Mr. Odermatt described the principled approach to the project exhibited by EA and how the Review Board encouraged buildings of varying heights. He said the proposed project's highest building was 70 feet shorter than Oracle. Mr. Odermatt said the EA project was a "fitting cap to the commercial development within the Redwood Shores." - LaVerne Atherly, 515 Cringle Drive, stated he was before the Council at the direction of the Board of Directors of the Redwood Shores Homeowners Association, and acknowledged he did not speak for 100% of the Association. Mr. AtherIy said the planned development application before the Council was between Flatirons Funding, a limited partnership, the City of Redwood City, and Redwood City General Improvement District 1-64. Mr. AtherIy said the Association believed Electronic Arts was a terrific company, and added "There has been a consistent error in all the presentations so far, and that is they are calling the project the Electronic Arts project, when the truth is the developer in this agreement is Flatirons Funding, a limited partnership. Electronic Arts Redwood is listed only once in the directory, as an agent, and their only assigned duty is to get this planned development permit passed through the City Council. Electronic Arts is intended to be the first tenant of the developed site, and for that we are grateful. We would love to have them in Redwood Shores. All we are asking for is that they comply with the existing rules and regulations that are in place at this time.....What you are going to decide upon is an agreement with Flatirons Funding which is a limited partnership out of New York, not with Electronic Arts out of San Mateo." Mr. AtherIy said "the population of that project will eventually be 4,000 or 5,000 employees which Electronic Arts will probably be about 25% maybe at the most 30%. So although we do have a lot of high tech people who - -- - -- - -- - - - -- -- - _m- -- - -- - -- - _m- - -- - -- - -- - _n --- - -- - --- - --- - -- - --- - --- - _n - -- - --- - __mn -- - -- - - -- - _m- - -- - -- --- -- - -- - -- -- - -- - - - -- - _n_m REGULAR MEETING JULY I, 1996 MINUTES PAGE 22 MINUTE BOOK NO. 54 Page No. 364