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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />prom: <br />Joe Cocoa <br />Sent: <br />Saturday, February 9, 2019 2:40 PM <br />To: <br />GRP -City Council <br />Subject: <br />Harbor View site <br />This e-mail is from an external source. Please do not open attachments or click links from an unknown or <br />suspicious origin. osxe2i <br />Dear Mayor Bain and City Council members, <br />Please do not continue forward with the review process for the massive Harbor View project. <br />Redwood 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 accommodate a massive commercial office project, in place of industrial, <br />will inevitably have a negative domino affect on all the heavy and light industry that supports the Port and <br />makes it viable. It will result in more land speculation as more land owners request a zoning change to <br />commercial office resulting in killing the only Port in the region and a loss of economic diversity that sustains <br />our region. <br />The development will significantly worsen traffic congestion on Highway 101, particularly at the Woodside <br />Road interchange, which is already very seriously impacted. In addition, the Harbor View site is in the path of <br />'sea level rise. Redwood City should not be approving further development in the flood zone with no plan for <br />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 <br />on developing in the old Cargill salt ponds, a project that has divided the Redwood City Community. <br />Please do not continue forward with this project, which is the wrong project in the wrong place. <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br />Mark Kokoletsos <br />Redwood City <br />Sent from Outlook <br />