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From: Kris Johnson <br />To: GRP -City Council <br />Cc: MGR -Melissa Stevenson Diaz <br />Subject: Office growth <br />Date: Monday, January 25, 20219:21:53 AM <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when opening attachments or clicking links, <br />especially from unknown senders. <br />Dear City Council, <br />I am genuinely concerned. You are caring people. We have 5.5M square feet of office space in the queue (see attached <br />spreadsheet). That equates to 22,000 - 28,000 high -paying jobs in tech or life sciences. This is above and beyond the 500k of <br />office space already delivered in the Downtown Precise Plan and the 500k as part of Stanford - Phase I. Many of those workers <br />will choose to live in our city. Also, according to our Nexus Study, that amount of office space creates a demand for over 10,000+ <br />housing units for the teachers, food service workers, maintenance workers, gardeners, mechanics, grocery clerks who will be <br />needed to service these new residents and workers. Why is this not setting off alarm bells with you and at City Hall? This is <br />unsustainable and we have a Planning Dept already hanging by a thread. Help me understand why we are not forming a <br />jobs/housing task force to address this critical issue? Why do we not have metrics similar to the attached spreadsheet from City <br />staff that tracks our progress towards the limits prescribed by the General Plan EIR? To add insult to injury, we now have a <br />project that is proposing 1.2M of office space (5,000 - 6,000 jobs) in order for the Sequoia Station project just to pencil out. That <br />just doesn't make sense. Perhaps these questions can addressed at the Study Session this evening. I still have hope. <br />Regards, <br />Kris Johnson <br />I.Timf • 7 .- ' . C ymm. 1f717.Rom.Mm <br />Regards, <br />