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Since most people are at home in the evening your solar electric system will not be producing <br />for you when you are at home. There for you will need to be drawing down from the utility grid <br />at night if you do not have batteries. <br />If you have an electric car and are charging your car at night, you will need additional batteries <br />to accommodate charging of your car without pulling power from the grid. <br />The State takes great time and care in developing the energy code. Why is there a rush to add a <br />reach code, before this one has been put into action. <br />I am attaching a letter from the Peninsula Builders Exchange, so you can understand the <br />concerns by those who will need to construct these buildings (Please take the time to read this <br />letter . Every city adopting a different code causes confusion and inconsistencies. How will the <br />design professionals be able to keep all the different city by city requirements straight? <br />I am unable to understand how the City Council can review once again something that is for the <br />special interests groups and leaving the actual citizens out of the equation who will bear the <br />added cost of construction. During this time of soaring construction costs and scarcity of <br />products that will meet these requirements, this will be one more hit against affordable housing. <br />This is not a decision that should be taken lightly or be made out of bullying or "public <br />shaming" by special interest groups. <br />Since this is a new code does it not make more sense to see how construction goes before <br />rushing to adopt a reach code that has not been completely vetted? Please give this the attention <br />it deserves before voting on yet another rule to increase building costs and make it harder for <br />the average person to afford to build. <br />Best regards, <br />Roland and Joanne Kurz - Concerned citizens of Redwood City <br />