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I support the redeveloping of retail and surface parking at the site to create a <br />walkable, mixed use community. While this project is office -heavy, this is one of the <br />very best places in the region for concentrated offices where most workers will not <br />need to drive. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our region will need to <br />shift away from car -oriented office parks and toward transit -oriented, dense offices <br />adjacent to residential and retail. This location next to a major train station is the very <br />best place to add offices where most workers will not need to drive. That being said, I <br />want to emphasize that adding this amount of offices is significant and will require <br />serious measures to protect residents from displacement including bolstered tenant <br />protections, allowing denser housing, and incentivizing housing over additional office <br />space. <br />In summary, I urge you to advance this project and take additional steps to ensure the <br />city continues to add more homes at all income levels and protect renters to help <br />mitigate the negative effects housing unaffordability has on renters in the community. <br />Thank you, <br />Raayan Mohtashemi <br />