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CLK-Pamela Aguilar From: Scott Shell <Scott.Shell@ehdd.com> Sent: Monday, October 28, 2019 1:05 PM To: GRP -City Council Subject: Reach Code Attachments: 190821 Cost effectiveness of all electric buildings.pptx; 190910 All electric commercial buildings.pptx This e-mail is from an external source. Please do not open attachments or click links from an unknown or suspicious origin. osxrr i Dear Council Members, Thank you for all your efforts on making Redwood City a more livable, healthy, and sustainable city. I'm writing to advocate for a more effective approach for your proposed Reach Code. I respectfully request that you adopt a requirement for all buildings to be electric, rather than just an incentive. If required for passage, exceptions can be provided for specific technologies (cooking or fireplaces) or building types (restaurants or hospitals). A requirement will provide much higher levels of adoption than an incentive only program, and avoid building yet more buildings with gas that we will have to retrofit in the years ahead. Palo Alto has had an incentive for electric buildings in place for 3 years and it has resulted in very low adoption (^'10%) of all electric buildings due to industry inertia. Our 65 person architectural firm has designed over a dozen all electric buildings of all types over the past 19 years. We have found it to be cost effective, safe, healthy, reliable, and much lower in carbon emissions. We have completed large commercial buildings including a 100,000 square foot office building in Colorado (a much more difficult climate) and the 180,000 square foot Exploratorium Science Center. Please see the attached slide deck showing numerous large commercial projects that are all electric. When this reach code discussion began last year, I met with seven of the leading mechanical engineering firms and many numerous other architects in the bay area to ask if the design and construction industry was ready to go all electric, and they agreed that it was with few exceptions for things like hospitals and industrial processes. Please see the attached slide deck for their comments on the affordability of all electric. Our largest client is the University of California which prohibits gas for heating and hot water in all of their new buildings of all types on all ten of their campuses. They did extensive analysis before making this policy including this study which demonstrated that it was cost effective across multiple building types. UC is constructing 4 large student housing projects using independent developers and they are all going electric because it costs less to build. You can see these projects in the slide decks attached. Many affordable housing developers are choosing electric for the same reason. https://www.ucop.edu/sustainability/ files/Carbon%20Neutral%2ONew%2OBuilding%2OCost%205tudy%2OFinalReport.p df Thank you for all of your efforts on this reach code. Best Regards, Scott Scott Shell FAIA. LEEDCR AP BD+C, CPNC�e) Principal