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Lozano Smith Harold M. Freiman Attorney at Law February 28, 2020 By U.S. Mail & E -Mail: lehan@redwoodeity.org Ms. Lindy Chan, Acting Planning Manager City of Redwood City, Planning Services 1017 Middlefield Road, Redwood City, CA 94063 E-mail: hfreiman@lozanosmith.com Re: Response of Sequoia Union High School District to Revised Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report for the South Main Mixed -Use Project Dear Ms. Chan: This office represents Sequoia Union High School District ("District"). On behalf of the District, we are hereby submitting comments regarding the Revised Notice of Preparation of an Environmental Impact Report ("NOP"), which environmental impact report ("EIR") the City of Redwood City ("City") plans to prepare for the project to be located on five contiguous blocks totaling 8.30 acres between El Camino Real, Maple Street, Cedar Street, and Main Street ("Parcels A-E"), and one separate, 0.15 -acre block located at 1304 El Camino Real (at Jackson Avenue) ("Parcel F"), in Redwood City, California (collectively, the "Project"). The District previously submitted comments to the City in response to the City's initial Notice of Preparation on August 9, 2019. In this letter, the District, in addition to reiterating many of its prior concerns regarding the Project, raises several new concerns. According to the revised NOP, the proposed Project, sponsored by Greystar GP II, LLC ("Developer"), will still consist of the demolition of existing auto storage and repair, restaurant, and office uses, but now will include the construction of 540 multi -family residential units (an increase of 249 units), 530,000 square feet ("sf') of office uses (a reduction of 19,000 sf), an 8,400 sf childcare facility (reduction of 100 sf), and 29,000 sf of retail uses (an increase of 1,000 sf ). The Project's Parcels A-E and Parcel F are located approximately 0.8 and 0.6 miles southeast of the District's Sequoia High School, respectively. The City, in its original NOP, proposed to prepare a limited or "focused" EIR which would evaluate only six environmental topics: (1) aesthetics, (2) air quality, (3) cultural resources, (4) greenhouse gas emissions, (5) noise, and (6) transportation. In the revised NOP, the City has now eliminated noise from its list of topics to be analyzed in the EIR, despite the fact that the Initial Study upon which the NOP was based has not been revised. Limited Liability Partnership 2001 North Main Street, Suite 500 Walnut Creek, California 94596 Tel 925-953-1620 Fax 925-953-1625