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From: <br />To: <br />GRP -City Council <br />Cc: <br />CD -Apollo Rojas <br />Subject: <br />Child Care Zoning <br />Date: <br />Sunday, March 21, 20217:57:28 PM <br />CAUTION: This email originated from outside your organization. Exercise caution when <br />opening attachments or clicking links, especially from unknown senders. <br />City Council Members <br />My name is Kevin Louie and I am a property owner in Redwood City. Over the past years I <br />have received inquiries from Child Care operators to lease my property (when vacant). While <br />there was sincere interest, I was unable to secure a Child Care operator as a tenant. I believe <br />the biggest challenge for the operators were the complexities of applying for a Conditional <br />Use Permit coupled with meeting State and Franchise requirements. From my experience, the <br />operators had a decent handle on the State requirements but the CUP process was a big <br />unknown and operators were hesitant to take on that risk and more importantly the time and <br />money involved. (Timing appeared to be a critical factor; from my understanding, Child Care <br />operators needed to open at an exact time in the year to coincide with the school year.) <br />It is my understanding that Council is contemplating changing zoning laws so that certain <br />properties would allow Child Care as a Permitted Use by right. I believe that this will <br />immediately lead to increasing the pool of applicants of Child Care operators into Redwood <br />City. <br />I am happy to discuss my perspective further if you desire or answer any questions. <br />Kevin <br />