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Rden Tint TnaMad IM Terry L TMII FmIN Tr�el October 8, 2020 Lindy Chan Principal Planner Redwood City Planning and Housing Division 1017 Middlefield Road Redwood City, California 94063 Ichm@mdwoodcity.org Re: Exclusion of the 2529 Broadway Street Property (APN 052-354-020) from the Proposed Transit Station Plan Dear Lindy: As described in my February 3, 2020 letter to you, I ern the Trustee of the Terry L Tiff Family Trost (the "Trust") which owns the property at 2529 Broadway Street Property (the `Property') in Redwood City (the "City'). At that time, I specifically requested that the Property be excluded from the proposed Transit District Plan that others initiated and to which the Trust does not consent. The Trust's strung request and desire is consistent: please keep the Property completely outside the proposed Transit District Plan. The Trust has a firm desire to see the development of affordable housing on the Property under the Gatekeeper/Downtown Precise Plan ("DPP') process. The DPP was developed with very specific design standards and requirements involving many stakeholders over a number of years. The Trust is very comfortable developing the Property under the DPP requirements once the Gatekeeper process allows a greater allocation of residential housing here, As you probably know, the City has fallen very short of meeting its Regional Housing Needs Assessment ("RHNA") for income -restricted housing. The RHNA is a representation of future housing needs for all income levels of the City and is a requirement of California State housing law. The City must plan far its RHNA allocation in its General Plan Housing Element. According to the most recent progress report filed with the California Department of Housing and Community Development ("HCD"), the City has not met, nor come close to meeting, its current RHNA in any