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Comments for Redwood City Council meeting on <br />proposal to convert Mount Carmel to a historic <br />neighborhood: July 23, 2018 <br />We have great respect for the people who have launched this initiative. We want to <br />work with them to move forward in a way that doesn't undermine the rights of <br />Mount Carmel residents, and have confidence that we can do so in a way that makes <br />sense. <br />Please do not spend precious city resources on a study. There is no case to be <br />made for designating the Mount Carmel neighborhood as historic. <br />PIease instead encourage the residents of Mount Carmel to sit down over a kitchen <br />table and discuss this like the great friends and neighbors we are. <br />Mount Carmel is a terrific place to live: It's close to downtown and to public <br />transportation. We love the area and the people who live here. But it is not remotely <br />a "historic" district. We would be among the first to fight for preserving an area with <br />beautiful architecture with historic merit ... But this isn't it: this is no Eichler <br />neighborhood, it's not Santa Fe or Savannah. The architecture of Mount Carmel isn't <br />remarkable even by comparison with other residential areas close by, and in <br />considerably poorer shape than neighborhoods in Palo Alto or Menlo Park that have <br />received proper attention and the investment necessary to improve them. <br />Many of the homes in Mount Carmel are in sore need of update, and many are too <br />small and badly designed for the needs of modern families. The neighborhood needs <br />to be improved, not frozen. <br />Please, instead of 'freezing' these streets in a way that will act to the detriment of the <br />residents of Mount Carmel and to Redwood City as a whole, ask the members of the <br />differing perspectives to gather and find a solution that can work for us all. <br />Yours truly, <br />Rex and Mercedes Northen <br />July 23, 2018 <br />