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CLK-Pamela Aguilar <br />From: Kathy Voss <vossorganizing@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2019 6:08 PM <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Subject: Allowing Gas for single family homes is a social justice and climate change issue <br />To the City Council of Redwood City: <br />Below is Mtn View resident Bruce Karney's report of how Councilmember Margaret Abe-Koga <br />described the social justice issue involved with allowing continued use of "natural" gas in NEW <br />construction. <br />Please pass Reach codes that require all new buildings to be all -electric for reduced greenhouse <br />gas pollution, and healthier, safer, and sustainable homes for all. <br />Thank you, city council members, for all that you do to make Redwood City a great place to live. <br />Kathy Voss -Jensen <br />Member of Fossil Free Mid -Peninsula and Redwood City Resident <br />426 Northumberland Avenue, Redwood City, CA 94061 <br />From: BRUCE KARNEY <bkarney(a comcast.net> <br />Subject: Natural Gas Cooking as a Social Justice Issue <br />Date: October 23, 2019 at 8:54:57 AM PDT <br />At last night's Mtn. View Council Meeting I heard a new argument for banning natural gas kitchen <br />appliances in single family homes. Credit for this idea goes to Vice Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga. <br />Her perspective is that if a reach code requires all -electric kitchens in new multi -family homes, but not <br />in new single family homes, then it essentially is giving a "license to pollute" to only those who are <br />wealthy enough to buy a new single family home. It gives an option to the owners of new single <br />family that renters and condo -residents do not have. Thus, it is a form of discrimination based on <br />wealth. <br />Rather than addressing this disparity by allowing natural gas kitchens in multi -family residences, the <br />Vice Mayor recommended eliminating the natural gas option in new single family homes. The rest of <br />the Council agreed, and her modification to the staff proposal was adopted on a unanimous <br />vote. Starting in 2020, new residences in Mountain View, whether single-family or multi -family, will <br />have all -electric kitchens. <br />Cheers, <br />Bruce Karney <br />Chair, Carbon Free Mountain View <br />Kathy Voss <br />Professional Organizer <br />Redwood City, California <br />