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the hub in Downtown Redwood City will provide extraordinary direct benefits to the community. Locating the hub in the downtown will ensure that Redwood City receives the highest levels of train service in the future and it also raises the profile and priority of Redwood City's proposed grade separations by melding them with a transformational project that directly enhances capacity on the entire railroad. The current station location is highly limited by the Safeway site and there is very little room to expand. Lowe's proposal to rebuild the site in a manner that moves Safeway towards EI Camino Real would preserve a significant piece of track -side land for the future transit uses. This preservation of space will allow for the future rebuilding of the hub station as well as the construction of grade separations. By preserving space now, we can ensure that these significant projects will occur in an orderly and cost-efficient way that avoids unnecessary property takings and community impacts. We believe that this is a tremendous win-win opportunity for the railroad, the community and the region to work together. To that end, Caltrain staff is also highly supportive of the intensification of development and the mix of office and housing uses that Lowe is proposing. A mixture of office and housing uses will add ridership to one of our premier stations and, critically, office creates the level of economic return necessary to support the dedication of land that we view as essential to the future of the downtown station. We appreciate the opportunity we've had to work with the City on the various components of the Transit District effort over the last couple of years and truly value the careful, forward-looking approach the City has taken toward planning for regional transit improvements. We hope to continue this productive collaboration. We would be happy to talk with