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CLK-Pamela Aauilar prom: Julie Pardini bent: Saturday, February 9, 2019 4:02 PM To: GRP -City Council Subject: RE: Feb 11, 2019 City Council Meeting: Harbor View Place (Jay Paul Company) General Plan Amendment, Update February 8, 2019 RE: Feb 11, 2019 City Council Meeting: Harbor View Place (Jay Paul Company) General Plan Amendment, Update Dear Mayor Ian Bain, V. Mayor Diane Howard, Council Members The last time someone promised you, "It won't be so bad ...... was it true? 'hose who are in favor of this Jay Paul Company project have attempted to provide assurances to us that: 1. The many and serious negative impacts of the project are "not as bad as they seem". 2. And, even IF that bad .... IF we will just wait 20 years, they may be corrected by then. 3. To that end, this company is actually requesting a General Plan Amendment to be approved, so that they can go forward with the Harbor View Place Project—even though it will be harmful to Redwood City. Twenty years is a very long time. Too long to have to live in the kind of mess this project will create for Redwood City and nearby cities, for years to come—in traffic impacts and in housing, (to name just two impacts). So, a question: just what do we do in the meantime, for those 20 years? An obvious and a justifiable question, if I do say so myself. With just as obvious an answer. The developer's visionary dream of a "Harbor View Place" development, may well become Redwood City's continuing nightmare. I hope the Council will use their legitimate right to deny this project going forward, based on the overwhelming evidence of identified long-term, serious, unmitigatable negative impacts to Redwood City.