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8.A.LF 34 of 36 <br />SILICONVALLEY <br />LEADERSHIP GROUP <br />2001 Gateway Place, Suite 101E <br />San Jose, California 95110 <br />(408)501-7864 svlg.org <br />Est. in 1978 by David Packard <br />AHMADTHOMAS <br />°E0 <br />Board Officers: <br />January 20, 2021 <br />JED YORK, Chair <br />San Francisco 49ers <br />JAMES GUTIERREZ, Vice Chair <br />Anns <br />ERI <br />ERIC S. YUAN, Vice Chair <br />Honorable Mayor Howard and Members of the City Council <br />Zoom Video Communications <br />VICKI HUFF ECKERT, Treasurer <br />Redwood City <br />PwC <br />GREG BECrmer Chair <br />Diana Reddy <br />Silicon Valleyy Bank Bank <br />c/o <br />AARTDEGEUS,Former Chair <br />Synopsys <br />1017 Middlefield Road <br />TOM WERNER, Former Chair <br />Snpo, <br />Redwood City CA 94063 <br />Board <br />B andMembers: <br />DON ANTONUCCI <br />Blue Shield./California <br />BOBBYBELL <br />KLA <br />DAWNETBEVERLEY <br />ley Finan eialsolu(i°na <br />RE: Support for Sequoia Station Development Proposal <br />CARLA <br />CARLABORAGNO <br />Genentech <br />CHRIS BOYD <br />Kaiser Permanente <br />ANIL CHAKRAVARTHY <br />Adobe Systems <br />DAVID CHUN <br />Equiar, Inc. <br />LISA "'ELS <br />Dear Mayor Howard, Vice Mayor Hale, and Honorable Councilmembers Aguirre, <br />KPMG <br />TOMKPMG <br />LON <br />menene <br />Inlinera <br />Espinoza-Garnica, Gee, Reddy, and Smith, <br />VINTAGEFOSTER <br />AMF Media Group <br />JOHN GAUDER <br />Comcast <br />KEN GOLDMAN <br />On behalf of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, we express our enthusiastic <br />RAQUEL GONZALEZ <br />support for the Sequoia Station development proposal submitted by Lowe and <br />Bank o/America <br />DOUG GRAHAM <br />Eden Housing. This as a of the Transit District, is an exceptional and <br />Lockheed Martin <br />proposal, part <br />LAURA GUIQ <br />IBM <br />time -sensitive development opportunity that Redwood City should not miss. <br />GARY GUTHART <br />Intuitive Surgical <br />ROBERTHAGERTY <br />poly <br />In the time traffic <br />STEFAN HECK <br />STE <br />middle of a pandemic and a recession, at a when was not at <br />Name <br />ROBERT HOFFMAN <br />the forefront of many minds, voters chose overwhelmingly to tax themselves to <br />Aecemen, <br />ERIC"°USER <br />invest $3 Billion over 30 to save and expand Caltrain. This critical regional rail <br />Wells Fargo Bank <br />years <br />JULLak'A"G <br />upgrade cannot reach its fullest potential without local approval of developments <br />MARYHUSS <br />Si Basinesa Ton. <br />like the one before you today. <br />MICHAEL OF <br />KQED <br />RHONDAJOHNSON <br />AT&T <br />EN <br />ROBERT KNEY <br />Revitalizing Sequoia Station with office space and 175,000 SF of reinvented retail, <br />Pacific Gas & Elechic <br />PAULA. KING <br />while adding 625 homes, will benefit the city and the region, and will help <br />Stanford Children's Health <br />TRAEast W tBaank <br />maximize voters' investment in Caltrain. <br />IBI KRUKUBO <br />EY <br />ERIC KUTCHER <br />eLADD any <br />The Sequoia Station not only housing and jobs on transit and in <br />BRENT LARD <br />BREN <br />proposal provides <br />Stryker <br />JANET LAMKIN <br />downtown, it also dedicates over an acre of land to make critical Caltrain <br />United Airlines <br />°fNDYLARIVE <br />upgrades possible. This is an unusual and critical commitment to Redwood City <br />UC of CA Santa Cruz <br />HFRIrQUEL°RES <br />the <br />and region. <br />NICK LOVRIEN <br />Facebook <br />ALAN LOWE <br />Leme <br />This also comes as the Bay Area is in a dire housing crisis. Lack of housing <br />ATT MA AN MATT <br />proposal <br />BTARKANMANER <br />poses a threat to our economy and our quality of life. The solutions are clear: we <br />Nexenta <br />need to find ways to produce more housing at all levels, including market rate and <br />FoolhlMINDe Aza Comm. College <br />housing. It is incredibly to find funding for <br />AlakaA� e°°' <br />affordable challenging sources and sites <br />Va. MULPURI <br />affordable housing, and the office in this proposal helps to subsidize what will be <br />ANAMARIE FRANC <br />SAP <br />the largest affordable project in Redwood City. This development proposal offers <br />BILL NAGEL <br />San Francisco Gh,anicl° <br />Redwood City to to 625 homes total, including to 240 <br />STACYOWEN <br />a chance add up up <br />NBC Universal <br />FATHER KEVIN O'BRIEN, SJ <br />affordable homes on-site. This will not only allow lower income residents to locate <br />Santa CI- University <br />MAJose <br />in a jobs -rich center, it will reduce transportation costs and the burden of long <br />State <br />San Jose State University <br />JES PEDERSEN <br />Webcor Builders <br />commutes. <br />KIM POLESE <br />ClearStrse( <br />DENNIS POLK <br />Synnex <br />RYANPOPPLE <br />P.terre <br />RUDYREYES <br />Verizon <br />SHARON RYAN <br />Bay Area News Group <br />TOM, RYBA <br />Regional Medical Center San Jose <br />PUNEETSAR,N <br />BD Biosciences <br />DARREN SNELLGROVE <br />Johnson & Johnson <br />JEFF THOMAS <br />Nasdaq <br />LIZ VILARDO <br />Sutter Health Medical Foundation <br />ERIC YUAN <br />Zoom <br />226 <br />