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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />From: Mary Lasley <br />Sent: Wednesday, February 6, 2019 11:42 AM <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Subject: Harbor View <br />Dear Mayor Bain and City Councilmembers, <br />Re: 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 <br />heavy and light industrial companies around it. <br />Changing the zoning of this area, to accomodate 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 more land speculation as more land <br />owners request a zoning change to commercial office resulting in killing the only Port in the <br />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 <br />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 office, <br />with 4,500 employees, requires over 2,000 homes to support it. Developing massive offices <br />north of 101, will put pressure on providing housing on the north side of 101. This puts pressure <br />on developing in the old Cargill saltponds, a project that has divided the Redwood City <br />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 />Mary Lasley <br />