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Dear Mayor Ian Bain, <br />V. Mayor Diane Howard, <br />Council Members <br />The last time someone promised you, "It won't be so bad ...... was it true? <br />Those who are in favor of this Jay Paul Company project have attempted to provide assurances to us that: <br />1. The many and serious negative impacts of the project are "not as bad as they seem". <br />2. And, even IF that bad .... IF we will just wait 20 years, they may be corrected by then. <br />3. To that end, this company is actually requesting a General Plan Amendment to be approved, so that they <br />can go forward with the Harbor View Place Project—even though it will be harmful to Redwood City. <br />Twenty years is a very long time. <br />Too long to have to live in the kind of mess this project will create for Redwood City and nearby cities, for <br />years to come—in traffic impacts and in housing, (to name just two impacts). <br />So, a question: just what do we do in the meantime, for those 20 years? <br />An obvious and a justifiable question, if I do say so myself. <br />With just as obvious an answer. <br />The developer's visionary dream of a "Harbor View Place" development, may well become Redwood City's <br />continuing nightmare. <br />I hope the Council will use their legitimate right to deny this project going forward, based on the <br />overwhelming evidence of identified long-term, serious, umnitigatable negative impacts to Redwood City. <br />This time, Jay Paul Company has asked too much of Redwood City. <br />This company is not entitled to expect approval of a project that not only does not conform to the General Plan, <br />but more: will exacerbate present existing problems that this city's leaders have been actively searching for <br />the ways and means to remedy. <br />It is in Redwood City's best interest to deny this project. <br />We need projects which will be beneficial to the City of Redwood City, ones that will safeguard our future, <br />ones that provide remedies for current, ongoing, and predictable future challenges; and ones that protect and <br />enhance our quality of life. <br />Harbor View Place is not that kind of development. And it never will be, regardless of minor "plan revisions" <br />that may be offered as a solution. <br />It will place the city in the untenable and unavoidable position of damage control for years to come. <br />Sincerely, <br />Julie Pardini <br />