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In summary there is no intrinsic need for, or benefit from, a large office project northeast of Highway 101, especially with the amount of commercial capacity still available under the current General Plan. Overriding considerations to accept "significant and unavoidable" environmental impacts should be considered where broad scale economic benefit to the city as a whole is anticipated, or where a project fills a community -wide need. No clear benefits like those from the Downtown Precise Plan - which also required a statement of overriding consideration - such as significant downtown revitalization, high-density housing, restaurants, or entertainment venues can be anticipated for Harbor View. Redwood City should take pride in its history of land use leadership. In the past, the City accepted higher RHNA numbers than required because it was the right thing to do. Redwood City did the heavy lifting for developing an invaluable recycled water system. Redwood City supports child care and community building. We, the citizens, even chose to transform Downtown and tolerate a new jail, knowing there would be some negative impacts. These choices were hard, required long view thinking, and demonstrated the character, wisdom, and ingenuity of our citizens, City staff, and you, our policy makers. There are times when you will be doing the community and a developer a favor by saying "no" early in the process, in cases where a project deviates as significantly from General Plan principles as this one does, and produces unavoidable negative environmental impacts. This is one of those times. The Harbor View site's current Industrial -Light and Industrial—Port Related land use designation and Industrial Restricted and General Industrial zoning is the right use in the right location. Please leave this good decision in place. Thank you for your service to Redwood City, Dan Ponti and Gail Raabe on behalf of Redwood City Neighbors United Redwood City Neighbors United, P.O. Box 416. Redwood City, CA