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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />crom: Jeanie Treichel <br />lent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 9:28 PM <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Cc: Jeanie Treichel <br />Subject: No -- on Harbor View project <br />Dear Mayor Bain and City Council members. <br />I was raised in Redwood City and my family still lives there. We're talking about 90 years altogether. (I am <br />now in Portola Valley.) We used to be able to see the Bay. We used to be able to go to Pete's and walk along the <br />edge of the marsh. We used to be able to tie up our boats and walk on the marshes. Pete's Harbor could have <br />been a great place for people of Redwood City to be near the waters. <br />This new project will push Redwood City further inland. Why not be a courageous Council and respect the <br />people in the town and allow them to have a relationship with their environment - instead of bringing in another <br />multi -story project. <br />Please do not continue forward with the review process for the massive Harbor View project. <br />Red,wood City -s Port is a regional asset that is critical for our region and it is supported by the heavy and light <br />industrial companies around it. <br />Changing the zoning of this area. to accomodate a massive commercial office prcliect, in place of industrial. will <br />inevitably have a negative domino affect on all the heavy and light industry that supports the Port and makes it <br />viable. It will result in more land speculation as more land owners request a zoning change to commercial office <br />resulting in killing the only Port in the region and a loss of economic diversity that sustainThe development will <br />significantly worsen traffic congestion on Highway 101, particularly at the Woodside Road interchange, which <br />is already very seriously impacted. In addition. the Harbor View site is in the path of sea level rise. Redwood <br />City should not be approving further development in the flood zone with no plan for how to protect it. <br />An additional concern is the jobs -housing imbalance. Building a massive commercial office, with 4,500 <br />employees, north of 101, will put pressure on providing housing on the North side of 101. This puts pressure on <br />developing in the old Cargill saltponds. a project that has divided the Redwood City Community. <br />Please do not continue forward xvith this project, which is the wrong project in the «gong place. <br />Jeanie Nieri Treichel <br />Portola Valley. CA 94028 <br />Family in Redwood City <br />Redwood City. CA 94062 <br />