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CLK-Pamela Aguilar rom: janet_lin@agilent.com sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 8:00 PM To: GRP -City Council Cc: Rob Zehnder Subject: Preserving RWC neighborhoods in R1 and RH areas Attachments: Strategies for Preserving Neighborhoods in R1 and RH.pdf Dear City Council, My husband and I fully support the attached strategies for preserving neighbors in RWC R1 and RH areas and urge you to implement these ideas as quickly as possible. As residents we are very frustrated as the City Staff already has Design Guidelines adopted by Burlingame and Burlingame, who as a city has done a fantastic job of responsibility developing their city neighborhoods - in a manner that makes them one of the envies of the peninsula. In the private industry we always strive to adopt best practices from other companies and there is no time to worry about perfection, but rather that we're moving in the right direction. I think much could be learned by Burlingame and the other suggestion in the above document such as tailoring FAR ratios to typical house sizes. This would eliminate much of the current discourse we see in the rebuilds that are maximized for profit or size. Promoting the retention of architectural significant structure/character that is discussed. Lastly, my husband and I are greatly sadden and still very upset at the very large ADU over detached garage that will going up directly behind our house. That tall ADU will impact so many of our neighbors who are all singled storied homes id all the neighbors I talked to are upset. When I was told by city staff that nothing could be done as Redwood City had adopted the one size fits all 28 foot height limit on second storied ADU's over garages and was told this was state law. Only to find it wasn't state law and that cities all around us had done more to protect the character of their neighborhoods by lowering this height limit or not allow 2"d stories at all. This just sickened my husband and I. We are still upset to know how the city did so little to help us as residents. More needs to be done (and quickly too) to protect Redwood City residents from some of our current quickly adopted ordinances - especially around 2"d storied ADU's over detached garages. Best Regards, Janet and Rob