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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />From: Nabeel AI-Shamma <br />Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 9:48 AM <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Subject: Harbor View Development <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 accomodate a massive commercial office project, 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 sustains 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. <br />Tn addition, the Harbor View site is in the path of sea level rise. Redwood City should not be approving further <br />development in the flood zone with no plan for how to protect it. <br />Yet another major concern is the jobs -housing imbalance. Building a massive commercial office, with 4,500 <br />employees, requires over 2,000 homes to support it. Developing massive offices north of 101, will put pressure <br />on providing housing on the north side of 101. This puts pressure on developing in the old Cargill saltponds, a <br />project that has divided the Redwood City Community in the recent past. <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 />Nabeel Al-Shamma <br />Mountain View <br />