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I am a Burlingame resident and San Mateo County nonprofit leader in the areas of environment & sustainability. <br />I have also been working closely with the County, Peninsula Clean Energy, and many city councils, staff, and citizens to <br />advance all -electric Reach Code ordinances. <br />I am writing to urge you to consider Reach Codes that require all -electric new construction or prohibited gas use in new <br />homes and buildings. <br />Preventing the use of natural gas in new construction will create safer, healthier, cheaper, and greener buildings for <br />Redwood City residents. It will future proof against expensive and uncertain supplies of natural gas. <br />With all -electric Reach Codes, your building and planning staffs will find it much easier to enforce than to monitor <br />different sets of regulations for electricity and gas. And builders and developers will find them more fair, quicker to <br />approval, and faster to build. <br />A swift transition away from fossil fuels is necessary to avoid irreversible impacts of climate change, and it is consistent <br />with the UN's recent IPCC 2018 Special Report that shows we must dramatically reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) <br />emissions by 2030 through rapid and unprecedented measures. <br />Accordingly, the County of San Mateo joined over 1,000 national, international, and local jurisdictions with a formal <br />declaration of a Climate Emergency on September 17th of this year. They too are now strongly considering all -electric <br />building reach codes. <br />Adopting an all -electric Reach Code is the single biggest climate action you can take this year and I ask you to support it <br />as an important move to phase out fossil natural gas fuel use in our homes and buildings. <br />Sincerely, <br />Doug <br />