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From: Kristin Forbes To: GRP -City Council; MGR -Melissa Stevenson Diaz Subject: Opposed! Sequoia Station - Proposed Development Date: Wednesday, February 3, 20218:32:32 PM CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. Dear City Council and City Manager Redwood City, I am appalled by the proposed 6 separate blocks of development at the Sequoia Station location, potentially up to 12 stories or 132 ft high. Redwood City does NOT need this project which proposes 1.25 million square feet of office space potentially up to 6,250 new office with workers clogging our city streets especially in an already very busy area, high traffic area. On top the that you intend to allow 475-640 NEW housing units as part of this project making the traffic and congestion in this area 100 -fold worse. You are fantasizing if you think these office workers will live in the "on-site" housing or in other apartments in the downtown area. People still (at least as of now have a right to choose where they live and that is often NOT in the same community where they work. To think that this proposed new housing is once again APARTMENTS that gives people NO, ZERO, NADA opportunity to build equity and increase their wealth and participate in the American dream like the majority of all of you who do own home is ludicrous and outrageous. This development's proposed housing units comes on the heels of all the recent (and still to be built) apartment housing that now plagues downtown Redwood City and the EI Camino Real. There have been/will be something like 8 -10 new housing complexes built within the downtown/EI Camino corridor in the past 6- 8 years and most of it is UGLY, architecturally uninspiring, and cheaply built and will, within 20 years look like what it really is .... overpriced tenement housing devoid of green open space as every building is built right to the edge of the sidewalks! The Council and City's collective leadership in approval of all these apartment housing complexes appalling. You sold out to developers. What have these developers added to the City's value in terms of services to the residents; nothing. We have NO additional police, in case you have not noticed... crime is up! Thefts are reported practically EVERYDAY on social media such as Nextdoor There is No additional fire protection, in fact you wanted to eliminate one of the existing