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Sattworks 50l50 Balanced Plan—Executive Summary <br /> Overview of Application Submit�al & Statement of Justifrcation � <br /> May 20Q9 <br /> Page 7 <br /> capacity to the south. �See Regiona/Access pian, attached.} Primary access to <br /> the Saftworks Site no longer,would be via the Woodside interchange, but to the . <br /> east via Marsh Road and to the wes# via Whippfe. 50/50-Balanced-Plan-related <br /> improvements would also provide exist�ng residents improved and more <br /> convenient access to the City's Downtown and other districts. <br /> 5. Infras#ructure <br /> Flood pro�ection, perhaps the most prominent public safety priority of the 50/�D <br /> _ . Balanced Plan, innovatively is premised upon adaptive design principles. Ini#ia�iy <br /> based upon the most current science far sea-level rise projections, future levees <br /> a# the Saltworks Site will be designed to accommodate fufiure expansion and <br /> elevation should unan#icipated magnitudes of sea-fevel rise occur. <br /> The Statement of Jus�ifcation and a technical appe�dix in the Application <br /> Submittal address other infrastructure issues 'rnc[uding: project-generated <br /> stormwater management and quality control, o�€s�te generated runoff <br /> management, potable wa#er se�-vice, sanifiary sewer service, recycled wa#er, solid <br /> waste managemenfi, and dry utilities. The 50150 Balanced Plan also proposes to <br /> address the vexing flooding issues related to the adjacen# regional starmwater <br /> channe! facility, praviding benefits to its immediate neighbors and the region as a <br /> who(e. <br /> V.�onclusion � <br /> It truly is unpreced�nted to have the open canvass af a two-square-mile undeveloped <br /> infr!! site situated amidst booming job centers and existing regional #rar�sit facilities. The <br /> inherent opportunities in such a canfguration are extraordinary. <br /> The question is, what to do with those circumstances? Here, Redwood City has twa <br /> choices: cantinue the 10Q-year history of industrial salt making and its re�ated preclusion <br /> of public involverr�ent and access, or bring a comprehensive balance of eommunity <br /> open space/ecological restoration and innovative, benefrcial community design that <br /> improves �he quaiifiy of life for both existing and future residents of the City. <br /> The Saltwarks Team is confident that after full puk�lic vetting, both the elected vfficials <br /> and citizens at large of Redwood City wif� see that the 5Q/50 Balanced P1an nat only is <br /> , fihe right choice, but it is a vis�on and model of which all can be proud and which should <br /> set a new standard for baianced community building in the Bay area and beyond. <br />