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.. 80 Page 11 RWC GENERAL PLAN GUIDING PRINCIPLES vis-a-vis this project: The Redwood Oaks community lauds the City Council for its long-term planning to revitalize many areas of the city, notably, in the context of the current situation, the Woodside Road corridor. The guiding principles for developing the General Plan include: -- "Ensure that change harmonizes with existing development to preserve our historic and neighborhood character." -_ "Partner with and embrace our neighborhoods to improve the health, safety, and well being for all in our community." __ "Continue to make community participation an important part of achieving a greater city. " It is our belief that these are meaningful principles, and that the project in question does not meet the criteria for "harmonizing with existing development to preserve our neighborhood character," nor does it seem likely, overall, to "improve the health, safety, and well being" of this neighborhood. In collaborating to share our voices with our city officials, we are keeping faith with the third principle above, involving community participation. We thus kindly request that the neighborhood's serious concerns lead the City Council to reverse the decision to issue a Use Permit to this massage parlor, and instead explore a more suitable, compatible location for it. Finally, we ask that City Council strongly consider imposing a moratorium on the approval of new establishments of this nature (massage parlors), until September 2009, when the state law issuing from SB 731 goes into effect. This will allow local governments to then choose whether to require new businesses to meet the licensing standards delineated in the new law, thus permitting City Council to carefully consider the best course of action in this regard. In researching the issues surrounding the licensing procedures for establishments of this kind, it emerged that many cities in California, including Arcadia, Ventura, and others, have taken steps to require such businesses to comply with the state licensure process set in place by the SB 731 legislation; at the appeal hearing, there will be additional information shared by a member of the California Massage Therapy Council. Thank you for your consideration; we look forward to the appeal hearing. Respectfull y, Redwood Oaks Community Members, as represented by Rudy, Noemi, and Kelly Escobedo; Erin Callaghan; Sue Story; Meg Van Buren; AI Zayha CONT ACT PERSON: Meg Van Buren 224 Marlrone St. RWC 94061 650-346-0488 megvb@earthlink. net