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The Honorable Mayor Diane Howard/City Council Page 4 August 7, 2020 loading/unloading, storing, recycling, and transferring of large quantities of dry, liquid, and neo -bulk cargoes; green energy production; rail facilities; as well as certain other maritime -oriented activities, including passenger vessels, ship repair or construction, and related ocean vessel support services. General Plan at page BE -50. True to that designation, Graniterock's Redwood City facility, adjacent to the property line with 1402 Maple Street, is a heavy industrial operation which includes an industrial rail served site with two hot -mix asphalt plants, two ready -mixed concrete plants, a concrete and asphalt recycling center, and a building materials yard. The General Plan notes that "the Port of Redwood City is the only deepwater port in South San Francisco Bay" and that heavy industrial uses predominate within this area, including "gravel and cement processing/distribution, asphalt and concrete manufacturing, metal recycling, and chemical distribution" located along Seaport Boulevard and Blomquist Street (including the Graniterock/Redwood City facility) and served by rail transport. General Plan at page BE -36. With this in mind, the General Plan contains several Goals, Policies and Programs designed to protect and preserve Port related industrial uses as "one of the city's great assets" and to minimize "potential land use conflicts as appropriate." General Plan at page BE -36. • Policy BE — 10.4 — Consider the design of Mixed Use — Waterfront neighborhoods and relationship to the Port area and Port uses.2 • Goal BE -21 — Maintain the viability of the Port of Redwood City as a center for goods and people movement and large-scale industrial activity. • Policy BE — 2 1. 1 — Allow for growth and intensification of industrial uses in the Port Industrial Center. • Policy BE — 21.2 - Ensure efficient and productive use of Port lands. • Policy BE -21.4 — Maintain railroad rights-of-way for materials transport and potential transit use. • Program BE — 1 - Establish transition zones or buffers between differing land use types and/or densities and intensities. • Program BE — 22 - Through design guidelines, strive to attain development in Waterfront Neighborhoods that minimizes potential conflicts with the Port area's industrial uses. The Maple Street Shelter provides critical support and services for a highly vulnerable population, and Graniterock fully supports the important role it plays in our community, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. At the same time, building a homeless shelter within land the General Plan has designed for industrial and Port -serving uses, and immediately adjacent to a rail spur and Graniterock's longstanding Redwood City heavy industrial facility 2 According to the Draft EIR for the General Plan, this policy is designed to "ensure that the design of a waterfront neighborhood does not have an undue adverse impact on the Port area or Port uses." (Draft EIR for the Redwood City New General Plan at page 4.9-19).