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Mayor Bain and Redwood City Council members <br />City of Redwood City <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />P.O. Box 391 <br />Redwood City, CA 94064-0391 <br />Dear Mayor Bain and City Council members, <br />Re: Harbor View Development <br />Dear Mayor Bain and City Council members, <br />F'�-CJfVLtfy �J v�O�� <br />F LB 0 0 2019 <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 than is critical for our region and it is supported by <br />the heavy and light industrial companies around it. <br />Changing the zoning of this area, to accommodate a massive commercial office project, in place <br />of industrial, will inevitably have a negative domino affect on all the heavy and light industry that <br />supports the Port and makes it viable. It will result in a loss of economic diversity that sustains <br />Redwood City and our region. <br />The development will significantly worsen traffic congestion on Highway 101, particularly <br />at the Woodside Road interchange, which is already very seriously impacted. <br />In addition, the Harbor View site is in the path of sea level rise. Redwood City should not be <br />approving further 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 <br />office, with 4,500 employees, requires over 2,000 homes to support it. Developing massive <br />offices north of 101 will put pressure on providing housing on the north side of 101. This <br />puts pressure on developing homes in the old Cargill salt ponds and in the path of sea <br />level rise and bay restoration. <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 />Kglsi et_ WiLil-HAM <br />5 J u fJ `( JA L C c A I' /OStp <br />