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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />rrom: Howard Eisenberg < <br />Sent: Thursday, February 7, 2019 2:18 PM <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Subject: Harbor View Project <br />Dean Mayor Bain and City Council members. <br />Please do not continue forward xvith 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 wilI significantly worsen traffic congestion on Highway 101, particularly at the Woodside <br />Road interchange, which is already very seriously impacted. h1 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 />,:mployees, 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 f mvard with this project, which is the wrong project in the wrong place. <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br />Howard Eisenberg <br />San Mateo <br />