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<br />NEWS
<br />Community Invited to Participate in Planning for Five-year Housing
<br />and Community Development Needs
<br />The City of Redwood City is holding a meeting to obtain important community input on the
<br />City's housing and community development needs. The community is invited to join in this
<br />important discussion at the following meeting:
<br />CONSOLIDATED PLAN COMMUNITY MEETING
<br />Wednesday, November 5, 2014 - 7:00 PM
<br />City Hall - Redwood City
<br />Council Chambers
<br />1017 Middlefield Road
<br />Redwood City, CA 94063
<br />This is part of a broad community outreach effort in preparation of the city's 2015-2020
<br />"Consolidated Plan" for the use of federal housing and community development funds. The
<br />city receives nearly a million dollars each year from the federal Department of Housing and
<br />Community Development. These funds are available for elements such as affordable housing,
<br />home rehabilitation, homeless services, and public facilities improvement, as well as to support
<br />social service programs. Community input is critical to shaping how these funds are used over
<br />the next five years.
<br />In addition to the meeting, the City has created an online survey to allow residents to
<br />provide input on community needs. The survey can be accessed from the City's web page at
<br />www.redwoodcity.org/phed/housing. The survey will provide the opportunity for written
<br />responses and comments in addition to "check the box" questions. Residents may also
<br />submit comments and questions to the City by emailing rcoffman@redwoodcity.org or
<br />by mailing written comments to:
<br />City of Redwood City Attention:
<br />Housing 1017 Middlefield Rd
<br />Redwood City, CA 94063
<br />Spanish translation will be available at the meeting. For more information, please visit the
<br />city's housing web page at www.redwoodcity.org/phed/housing or call 650-780-7234.
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<br />Measure M Is
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<br />"Currently, the city has the
<br />ability to change zoning for
<br />downtown at any time, but
<br />this initiative takes away that
<br />ability and locks us in. Measure
<br />M puts us at a real
<br />disadvantage relative to our
<br />neighboring cities"
<br />"The current plan has been
<br />thoroughly vetted.I have
<br />concerns that if M passes, it
<br />could lead to high traffic
<br />medical offices replacing the
<br />current proposals, which
<br />have no medical, leading to
<br />much more traffic."
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<br />Associated Press file
<br />This undated photo provided by the Maynard family shows
<br />Brittany Maynard, a 29 -year-old terminally ill woman
<br />who plans to take her own life under Oregon's death with
<br />dignity law. Maynard fulfilled a wish on her bucket list when
<br />she visited the Grand Canyon with her family last week.
<br />Terminally
<br />ill woman
<br />may postpone
<br />taking her life
<br />V Woman with incurable brain cancer
<br />set to utilize Oregon's assisted -suicide
<br />law said she still has `enough joy'
<br />BY STEVEN DUBOIS
<br />Associated Press
<br />PORTLAND, Ore. — A terminally ill woman who
<br />expects to take her own life under Oregon's assisted -
<br />suicide law says she is feeling well enough to possibly
<br />postpone the day she had planned to die.
<br />Brittany Maynard said in early October she expected
<br />to kill herself Nov. 1, less than three weeks before her
<br />30th birthday. She emphasized that she wasn't suicidal,
<br />but wanted to die on her own terms and reserved the
<br />right to move the date forward or push it back.
<br />While she hasn't completely ruled Saturday out,
<br />Maynard says in a new video she feels she has some
<br />more of her life to live.
<br />"I still feel good enough, and I still have enough joy
<br />— and I still laugh and smile with my friends and my
<br />family enough — that it doesn't seem like the right time
<br />right now," she says in the video.
<br />"But it will come because I feel myself getting sicker.
<br />It's happening each week."
<br />Maynard said she was diagnosed with incurable
<br />brain cancer earlier this year. Because her home state
<br />of California does not have an aid -in -dying law, she
<br />moved to Portland and has become an advocate for get-
<br />ting such laws passed in other states.
<br />Maynard's story, accompanied by photos from her
<br />pre -illness wedding day, broke hearts across the globe
<br />while igniting a national debate on the issue of physi-
<br />cian -assisted suicide.
<br />One opponent is Philip Johnson, a 30 -year-old Catho-
<br />lic seminarian from the Diocese of Raleigh, North Caro-
<br />lina. He, like Maynard, has inoperable brain cancer and
<br />is plagued by headaches and seizures.
<br />After learning of learning of Maynard's choice, he
<br />wrote an article explaining his view that "suffering is
<br />not worthless," and it's up to God to take life.
<br />"There is a card on Brittany's website asking for
<br />signatures `to support her bravery in this very tough
<br />time,"' Johnson wrote on the diocese website. "I agree
<br />that her time is tough, but her decision is anything but
<br />brave. I do feel for her and understand her difficult situ-
<br />ation, but no diagnosis warrants suicide."
<br />Oregon was the first U.S. state to make it legal for
<br />a doctor to prescribe a life -ending drug to a terminally
<br />ill patient of sound mind who makes the request. The
<br />patient must swallow the drug without help; it is illegal
<br />for a doctor to administer it.
<br />Oregon voters approved the Death with Dignity Act
<br />in 1994, then reaffirmed it — 60 percent to 40 percent
<br />— in 1997. It took more than a decade for another state
<br />to join Oregon, but four other states now have such
<br />laws.
<br />More than 750 people in Oregon used the law to die
<br />as of Dec. 31, 2013, most of them elderly.
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<br />"Measure M doesn't limit the
<br />size of any project, it just limits
<br />the office space and allows that
<br />to be replaced by more retail,
<br />bigger residential units or
<br />medical offices. So the net result
<br />is higher traffic and bigger
<br />burden on our schools."
<br />"The current plan has been
<br />thoroughly vetted.I have
<br />concerns that if M passes, it
<br />could lead to high traffic
<br />medical offices replacing the
<br />current proposals, which
<br />have no medical, leading to
<br />much more traffic."
<br />lJ
<br />The Daily News
<br />wefocus onYOUfi COMMUNITY
<br />That's what local news is all about!
<br />150 www.paloaltodailynews.com
<br />► 1 ►11
<br />6.3.A. -
<br />179
<br />Associated Press file
<br />This undated photo provided by the Maynard family shows
<br />Brittany Maynard, a 29 -year-old terminally ill woman
<br />who plans to take her own life under Oregon's death with
<br />dignity law. Maynard fulfilled a wish on her bucket list when
<br />she visited the Grand Canyon with her family last week.
<br />Terminally
<br />ill woman
<br />may postpone
<br />taking her life
<br />V Woman with incurable brain cancer
<br />set to utilize Oregon's assisted -suicide
<br />law said she still has `enough joy'
<br />BY STEVEN DUBOIS
<br />Associated Press
<br />PORTLAND, Ore. — A terminally ill woman who
<br />expects to take her own life under Oregon's assisted -
<br />suicide law says she is feeling well enough to possibly
<br />postpone the day she had planned to die.
<br />Brittany Maynard said in early October she expected
<br />to kill herself Nov. 1, less than three weeks before her
<br />30th birthday. She emphasized that she wasn't suicidal,
<br />but wanted to die on her own terms and reserved the
<br />right to move the date forward or push it back.
<br />While she hasn't completely ruled Saturday out,
<br />Maynard says in a new video she feels she has some
<br />more of her life to live.
<br />"I still feel good enough, and I still have enough joy
<br />— and I still laugh and smile with my friends and my
<br />family enough — that it doesn't seem like the right time
<br />right now," she says in the video.
<br />"But it will come because I feel myself getting sicker.
<br />It's happening each week."
<br />Maynard said she was diagnosed with incurable
<br />brain cancer earlier this year. Because her home state
<br />of California does not have an aid -in -dying law, she
<br />moved to Portland and has become an advocate for get-
<br />ting such laws passed in other states.
<br />Maynard's story, accompanied by photos from her
<br />pre -illness wedding day, broke hearts across the globe
<br />while igniting a national debate on the issue of physi-
<br />cian -assisted suicide.
<br />One opponent is Philip Johnson, a 30 -year-old Catho-
<br />lic seminarian from the Diocese of Raleigh, North Caro-
<br />lina. He, like Maynard, has inoperable brain cancer and
<br />is plagued by headaches and seizures.
<br />After learning of learning of Maynard's choice, he
<br />wrote an article explaining his view that "suffering is
<br />not worthless," and it's up to God to take life.
<br />"There is a card on Brittany's website asking for
<br />signatures `to support her bravery in this very tough
<br />time,"' Johnson wrote on the diocese website. "I agree
<br />that her time is tough, but her decision is anything but
<br />brave. I do feel for her and understand her difficult situ-
<br />ation, but no diagnosis warrants suicide."
<br />Oregon was the first U.S. state to make it legal for
<br />a doctor to prescribe a life -ending drug to a terminally
<br />ill patient of sound mind who makes the request. The
<br />patient must swallow the drug without help; it is illegal
<br />for a doctor to administer it.
<br />Oregon voters approved the Death with Dignity Act
<br />in 1994, then reaffirmed it — 60 percent to 40 percent
<br />— in 1997. It took more than a decade for another state
<br />to join Oregon, but four other states now have such
<br />laws.
<br />More than 750 people in Oregon used the law to die
<br />as of Dec. 31, 2013, most of them elderly.
<br />IiWHEN I HAVE AN
<br />ASTHMA ATTACK
<br />I FEEL LIKE A FISH
<br />WITH NO WATER."
<br />-JESSE, AGE 5
<br />ATTACK ASTHMA. ACT NOW.
<br />Tin" 1 -866 -NO -ATTACKS I:.EPA
<br />WWW.NOATTACKS.ORG
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