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From: - <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Subject: Sequoia Station Study Session <br />Date: Sunday, January 24, 2021 12:01:27 PM <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when <br />opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. <br />Dear Redwood City Council Members, <br />I am excited about the possibility of a redeveloped Sequoia Station. I am not excited about a <br />proposal that exacerbates Redwood City's (and San Mateo County's) jobs/housing imbalance. <br />Creating office space for 5,000+ new workers without creating sufficient housing to offset all <br />of those jobs is, in this climate, irresponsible. <br />Home For All in San Mateo County has frequently shared that until fairly recently SMC <br />created I unit of housing for every 24 jobs created. More recently that has dropped to 1 unit of <br />housing for every 12 jobs created. These are still the kind of numbers that contribute to <br />unaffordable rent, long commutes, and the displacement of people who've called Redwood <br />City (and San Mateo County) home for a long time. <br />As you move forward with the Sequoia Station plan please only consider plans that do not <br />make the jobs/housing imbalance worse in our community. Please strongly consider plans, and <br />seek to implement plans, that seek to offset years of favoring building for jobs over creating <br />the housing this community so deeply needs. <br />We know, perhaps even more than we did a year ago, how hard it is for folks to afford to live <br />in San Mateo County. Let us do all in our power to make sure that our communal decisions <br />make it easier for folks to live here instead of harder. <br />Sincerely, <br />Katie Goetz <br />Redwood City <br />